by Ananya Chag and Coby Potischman | Oct 30, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris led with criticism of former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in her closing pitch to the American people on Tuesday, with a week to go until election day. Harris gave a 30-minute...
by Sonya Dymova | Oct 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Congressional delays in passing spending and other legislation undermines U.S. positioning on the global stage and invigorates “competitors,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the Foreign Service Institute on Wednesday. “Look, if we’re...
by Marisa Guerra Echeverria | Oct 30, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — For South Texas communities, the southern border is not a political tool making headlines but a feature of citizens’ everyday lives. South Texas boasts some of the most predominantly Hispanic counties in the state, and has a continuous exchange with their...
by Erica Schmitt and Hannah Webster | Oct 30, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris drew sharp contrasts between herself and former President Donald Trump during a speech dubbed her “closing argument” on Tuesday in an appeal to voters a week before the election. At the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., Harris...
by Hannah Webster | Oct 29, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Around 80 protesters gathered to criticize the World Bank and International Monetary Fund for climate and development policies on Friday. Representatives from various climate action groups met at Edward Murrow Park to hear from global advocacy leaders...
by Coby Potischman | Oct 28, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics, Religion
WASHINGTON — With less than two weeks until election day, former President Donald Trump doubled down on his efforts to court religious voters on Wednesday, holding a “Believers and Ballots” town hall where he urged Evangelicals to vote. At the event in Zebulon, Ga.,...
by Emma Richman | Oct 28, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump has ramped up media appearances targeting Latino voters in the weeks before the election, participating in a roundtable with supporters and community leaders on Tuesday, as well as a town hall on Univision on Oct. 16. The...
by Hannah Webster | Oct 24, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Only nine years after the signing of the Paris Agreement — a landmark treaty promoting international cooperation to combat climate change — global carbon emissions are out of line with Paris’ global warming targets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
by Sarah Lin | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — On Oct. 15, two giant pandas arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo after a 19-hour trans-Pacific flight on a FedEx carrier plane, fittingly known as the “Panda Express”. Before last week’s arrival, pandas have not occupied the National Zoo since...
by Erica Schmitt | Oct 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Health & Science
In this third episode of Point by Point, we focus on health care by comparing former President Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act with Vice President Kamala Harris’s commitment to expanding health care access. Tune in as we explore how their policies on...
by Ananya Chag | Oct 23, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund projected global public debt to exceed $100 trillion by the end of 2024 in its bi-annual Fiscal Monitor report, released Wednesday at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. “Public debt may be worse than it...
by Raj Ghanekar and Sonya Dymova | Oct 23, 2024 | Featured, National Security
Washington — Ending trade with foreign competitors to protect U.S. technology is not a path forward, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Wednesday, underscoring the need for more nuanced and targeted export controls. “It doesn’t make sense to allow...
