by Jeremy Fredricks | Mar 13, 2025 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed removing the penny from U.S. circulation in February. The one cent coin costs the U.S. Mint about 3.7 cents to make. Will discontinuing the coin contribute to higher costs and inflation or save the government millions of...
by Valerie Chu | Mar 13, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Heather Dune Macadam still remembers one thought that bubbled inside her as she stepped onto the stage decades ago at the Kennedy Center for a dance competition: “Wow, I made it.” Then, just last month, when she heard about President Donald Trump’s...
by Sarah Serota | Mar 13, 2025 | Business, Featured, Politics
On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump made a promise to the cryptocurrency entrepreneurs that they have not forgotten: a pledge to be the first “crypto president.” Last week, Trump took his latest in a string of actions to align himself with the digital asset...
by Sasha Draeger-Mazer | Mar 12, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – An otherwise uneventful House committee hearing Tuesday afternoon quickly turned into a partisan showdown as lawmakers clashed over the proper way to address a transgender member of the committee. The hearing before the Europe subcommittee of the House...
by Zoe Singer | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration continued to push its pro-tariff economic agenda during a press briefing Tuesday, even as the President’s trade war on foreign nations spurred a heightened risk of a U.S. recession. “The numbers that we see today,...
by Edward Cruz | Mar 11, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Political science lecturer emeritus Jeff Rice (Weinberg ’72) was a sophomore at Northwestern at the height of anti-Vietnam War protests. The day after students voted to end a schoolwide strike, he and a group of peers broke into the Naval Reserve Officers...
by Sasha Draeger-Mazer | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON – White lab coats dotted the crowd gathered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday afternoon. Some attendees accessorized with oversized cardboard syringes, while others wore safety goggles pushed up onto their foreheads; this was – you guessed it...
by Samanta Habashy | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite the Trump administration’s threats to withhold funding, four Democratic mayors defended their cities’ sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,...
by Jeremy Fredricks | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) has been focused on confirming President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees for the first months of this Congressional term. Now he’s focusing on his priorities, both nationally and for his northern Wisconsin constituents. Jeremy...
by Jeremy Fredricks | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
President Donald Trump will give an annual address to Congress on Tuesday night. Trump is expected to talk about his priorities for the administration: immigration, foreign policy and the economy. Jeremy Fredricks has more from the White House. Watch the video report...
by Victoria Ryan | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday about who decides if prisoners have exhausted all of their available remedies when filing grievances, weighing the scopes of the Seventh Amendment and the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Kyle Richards, an...
by Jiah Choe | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The free mobile application once used by migrants to schedule appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border became an example, or in some cases a counterexample, of how technology should be leveraged in the U.S. immigration system. The CBP One mobile...
