by Hannah Webster | Oct 8, 2024 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy added 254,000 jobs in September, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday. The report dramatically surpassed economists’ projections; the Dow Jones consensus forecast, for instance, predicted a gain of only...
by Erica Schmitt | Oct 8, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
In this first episode of Point by Point, a new podcast by the Medill News Service, we dive into one of the top issues on voters’ minds: inflation. We examine how Donald Trump and Kamala Harris plan to tackle rising prices and what their policies could mean for...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly launched a new Forever stamp honoring health care workers at a dedication ceremony on Thursday. The stamp became available for sale on Tuesday, October 1st and...
by Erica Schmitt | Oct 3, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sen. JD Vance claims that migrants are contributing to a housing shortage in the U.S. But experts say the issue is complicated, prompting disagreement about the driving factor. During the Tuesday Vice Presidential debate, both candidates agreed on the...
by Raj Ghanekar | Oct 3, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance touted their campaigns’ policies to improve the childcare crisis in Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate, even finding some common ground. But experts say their proposals drastically differ in their efficacy. ...
by Sonya Dymova | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is still hesitant to take a definitive stance on whether to lift restrictions preventing Kyiv from using U.S.-made long-range missiles to strike military targets deep inside Russia, despite months of pleading from Ukrainian...
by Eli Kronenberg | Oct 2, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates criticized the moderators of Tuesday night’s CBS vice presidential debate, saying they “broke the rules” by attempting to fact-check JD Vance’s claim on Haitian immigrants arriving illegally in...
by Rafaela Jinich | May 30, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
The cell was cold and stark. Gray concrete walls enclosed the small area, leaving little room to move. A mattress lay on the hard floor, and a simple desk was fixed to one wall. A small footlocker held a few of Detroit native Shaka Senghor’s belongings in a...
by Sophia Didinova | May 22, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House representatives clashed Wednesday over the fairness of union organization, with the Republican majority of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions calling it “big labor lies” and “union tactics to undermine...
by Lily Ogburn and Lance Wilhelm | May 16, 2024 | Featured, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – When Irade Kashgary was a little girl, she fled East Turkestan with her parents out of fear they would disappear at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party like others in their town. Since leaving in 1999, they’ve never returned to their homeland. East...
by Clare Zhang | Apr 10, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Topics
Modern video platforms like TikTok are aiding activists in southwest Louisiana in a yearslong fight against the long-established liquefied natural gas industry. President Joe Biden’s decision to pause approvals for LNG export projects, announced in January, may...
by Ellie Skelly | Apr 2, 2024 | Featured, Politics
RUCKERSVILLE, Va. — Ralph Morton is a third-generation farmer in Virginia’s Greene County. His family are the only Black farmers in the area. Both Morton’s father and grandfather experienced discrimination while trying to secure loans from the USDA’s Farm Service...
