by Pavan Acharya | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — With the House considering a funding package for just Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged senators on Tuesday to pass an “urgent” $106 billion supplemental aid package that also provides financial and...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether two school board officials violated parents’ First Amendment rights after they blocked the parents from posting on their personal social media accounts in a case that wades into questions about regulations in a...
by Cate Bikales | Oct 31, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Despite high consumer prices and rising interest rates, the U.S. economy surged this summer, driven largely by consumer spending. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose at a 4.9% inflation-adjusted annual rate in the July-through-September period, up from 2.1%...
by Matthew Vega | Oct 31, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers heard concerns from experts, workers, and business owners on Tuesday about Artificial Intelligence and its future use in the workplace. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the panel of witnesses...
by Casey He | Oct 31, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden signed a long-anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence Monday, marking the federal government’s most comprehensive effort to rein in the technology to date. “One thing is clear: to realize the promise of AI and avoid the...
by Shravya Pant | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital expressed frustration with hospital executives, staffing ratios and worker and patient safety during Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) solo Senate field hearing on Friday amidst their...
by Khadija Ahmed and Kunjal Bastola | Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – “I’ll show you what I dug out of one [camel] skeleton,” said marine scientist Marcus Eriksen as he unearthed a roughly 40-pound mass that he estimated held 2,000 plastic bags. Eriksen’s display came as he and other experts testified on potential...
by Rachel Schlueter | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan senators on a Foreign Relations subcommittee on Wednesday said they were concerned about the ability of grain shipments to be shipped from Ukraine to the rest of the world after Russia engaged in a naval blockade and dropped out of a grain...
by Julian Andreone | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Senators sparred over the most efficient ways to address the use of illicit finance networks funding terrorism in a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing Thursday. The discussion largely focused on identifying and combating...
by Casey He | Oct 26, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Cutting the budget of the federal cyber defense agency will severely weaken the government’s protection against foreign cyberattacks, cybersecurity officials told lawmakers Wednesday. “A significant cut to our budget would be catastrophic. We would...
by Khadija Ahmed and Kunjal Bastola | Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Native leaders expressed frustration with the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), citing a lack of communication and technical assistance from the federal government. A roundtable held by...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured, Religion
WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican lawmakers at a recent House hearing vowed to uphold religious freedom — yet disagreed about the biggest threats and whether that work should start at home or abroad. Lawmakers in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee...
