by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 4, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Debates on appropriations for the Legislative Branch, which funds that part of the government for the upcoming year, were halted as the House of Representatives went into recess after former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was ousted on Tuesday...
by Angela Zhang | Oct 4, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Tensions over Ukraine funding are growing in Washington as progressive anti-war activists are confronting Democratic lawmakers urging Congress to immediately provide more money to the war effort. “Continued American support will be critical to help...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 4, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Educators across the country have experienced negative impacts on their ability to teach due to the national discourse around book bans, a study published by First Book Research & Insights on Tuesday found. The study, which surveyed 1,500 educators...
by Gaby Striano | Oct 3, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented decision, the House of Representatives voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position as Speaker of the House. Spearheading the resolution was Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has been publicly critical of McCarthy’s...
by Matthew Vega | Oct 3, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) v. Community Financial Services Agency of America (CFSA) on Tuesday, in a crucial case at the crossroads of Congress’s ability to fund government agencies and the...
by Rachel Schlueter | Oct 3, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices may be forgiven if they found themselves humming the Schoolhouse Rock lyrics “Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?” when interpreting one of the first cases they hear for its latest October term. The court heard arguments on...
by Gaby Striano | Sep 29, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Recent studies have found that climate change disrupts the education of 40 million students a year. Due to environmental disasters like the Maui wildfires and deteriorating infrastructure, those numbers are only expected to go up. For Rep. Jamaal Bowman...
by Khadija Ahmed | Sep 29, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) led a subcommittee hearing on Thursday that explored the need for a national policy on deposit return for beverage containers to help decrease packaging waste, such as plastic. “More and more, it makes that blue bin in my...
by Jessica Ma and Kristen Axtman | Sep 29, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Members of a House oversight and investigations subcommittee on Thursday grilled officials from Hawaii on their protocols and prevention policies two months after the country’s deadliest wildfire disasters in more than 100 years. The wildfires that...
by Rachel Schlueter | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday kicked off the first hearing in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, in a six-hour proceeding that illustrated the politicization and deep divisions of the two parties amid a looming government shutdown. The...
by Pavan Acharya | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee members grilled Department of Defense officials in a Thursday morning hearing on President Joe Biden’s decision to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, a move that some Republicans criticized as an act of...
by Cate Bikales | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A freshman congressman from the Nashville area became the latest lawmaker seeking to restrict abortion by introducing a bill on Thursday morning that would prohibit medical abortions and penalize the selling or distribution of abortion pills. Rep. Andy...
