by Clare Zhang | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. — In 2020, Black voters in South Carolina handed now-President Joe Biden his first primary victory and helped propel him to the White House. This year, Biden changed South Carolina’s Democratic primary to the first in the nation, because its diversity...
by Alicia Tang and Lily Ogburn | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. – Many college students are choosing not to vote in Saturday’s Republican presidential primary election in South Carolina, saying they feel unrepresented by the candidates and apathetic towards politics. In 2020, only 16.4% of S.C. voters participated...
by Simone Garber and Emma Sullivan | Feb 21, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether to freeze an EPA policy aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses from one state to another in a case that experts say could significantly limit the agency’s ability to regulate air pollution...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 20, 2024 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving commercial truckers that could expand the definition of transportation workers to include people who drive goods for companies that are not in the transportation sector. The case,...
by Alicia Tang | Feb 15, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Economists promoted increased usage of the Fed’s discount window to insulate the economy from risks of financial crisis at a hearing on Thursday. The economists stressed the importance of destigmatizing discount window lending from the Fed before the...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 15, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Officials from the construction, manufacturing and transportation industries outlined to lawmakers the challenges they are facing in implementing President Biden’s Build America, Buy America provisions enacted as part of the Infrastructure Investment and...
by Ellie Skelly | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed bipartisan support for the reauthorization of legislation aimed at protecting health care workers from burnout Wednesday. The legislation follows an uptick in mental health emergencies faced by health care providers as a result of...
by Rafaela Jinich | Feb 15, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Amid rising concerns over a surge in investment scam losses and the potential compromise of citizens’ privacy, the Committee on Financial Services convened on Wednesday to scrutinize the operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...
by Lindsey Byman | Feb 14, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Wednesday attacked environmental regulations as “burdensome” for small businesses, saying they stifle innovation, even as some testified that the rules align community and business interests. The Environmental Protection Agency’s...
by Simone Garber | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough faced intense questioning Wednesday from Republican lawmakers regarding allegations of sexual misconduct among the department’s high-ranking employees. The House Veterans Affairs’ Committee decided in a...
by Maria Heim | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured
WASHINGTON – First lady Jill Biden sent a valentine to the country on Wednesday by decorating the White House front lawn for Valentine’s Day. The display featured a large letter addressed “To America with love…” The displays were installed overnight according to a...
by Maria Heim | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans narrowly impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a 214-213 vote, making him the second Cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached on Tuesday evening. The former secretary is charged with willfully refusing to...
