by Ishmael Bonsu | Mar 16, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday offered reassurances to lawmakers and the American public, pledging that the “banking system remains sound” as concerns over the stability of the U.S. financial system continue to mount. The recent decision to...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Mar 16, 2023 | Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — The National Gallery of Art opened up its doors last Thursday night for an evening of music and dancing. The theme of the event was “Sheroes,” in celebration of women’s history month.The event also offered a preview of the Smithsonian...
by Caroline Neal | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– As Democrats and Republicans prepare to spar over the debt ceiling, a quieter debate on scaling back defense spending is brewing within the Republican Party. The prospect of defense cuts started during Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for speaker of the...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Living, Topics
Ashburn, Va. — William Hennessy has worked as a court artist for over 40 years. He began in 1982, covering the Senate before C-SPAN coverage began. Currently, he covers the U.S. Supreme Court and has covered major historical moments, from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s...
by Brennan Leach and Logan Schiciano | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Morgantown, W. Va. — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) must soon decide if he will seek reelection from a majority Republican constituency. Manchin is no stranger to high-stakes decisions, as he often determined the life or death of President Biden’s...
by Lucia Barnum | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — At the first field hearing of the new session, expert witnesses called on the GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee to pass legislation to support agencies working on immigration and border security. Raul Ortiz, the chief of U.S. border patrol for the...
by Caroline Neal | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. –– President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to increase gun safety while speaking on Monday in Monterey Park, Calif., the site of a mass shooting in January that claimed 11 lives and left nine injured. The Executive Order aims to reduce gun...
by Nicole Markus | Mar 13, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Cooper Solomon is a happy 12-year-old. He lives in South Florida with his family and his dogs. He’s a middle school student with caring friends. He loves wearing dresses, makeup and fun hairstyles. And, according to his mom Jennifer Solomon, he could be taken into...
by Shannon Tyler | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic Senators along with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) grilled Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw on Thursday after the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as two other derailments in recent weeks, for the industry’s lack of investment in safety...
by Ishmael Bonsu | Mar 8, 2023 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) kept up the pressure on attacking corporate interference to unionization on Wednesday, a day after he secured the voluntary cooperation of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify before a Senate committee. Sanders, chair of...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday slammed a proposal by House Republicans to ban transgender females from sports teams, calling them “congressional bullies.” This comes as Republican members on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce...
by Caroline Neal | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– House GOP leaders on Wednesday seized on the D.C. crime bill to target Democrats as taking a soft-on-crime approach, as the Senate gets ready to vote on whether to override the measure. “The 173 House Democrats who voted against this bill now have to...
