by Maia Pandey | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices from both the left- and right-leaning blocks appeared skeptical of an argument that Boston officials could reject a Christian flag as part of a program in which the city occasionally replaces its own flag with those requested...
by Julia Richardson | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Washington — Hundreds of marchers took to the streets of Washington, D.C. on Monday, commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday. In attendance at the event were Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King and Yolanda Renee King. Participants in the march...
by Vanessa Kjeldsen | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Martin Luther King Jr.’s family, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and hundreds of others celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by demanding voting rights reform. “The law can’t make a man love me,” Martin Luther King III said during the press conference,...
by Jenny Huh | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – Lower financial literacy among Americans, especially those 65-and-older and those with disabilities, creates challenges for long-term money management, experts and nonprofit leaders told lawmakers on Thursday. “Seniors end up as greeters at Walmart when...
by Grace Deng | Jan 13, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Community colleges have taken the biggest hit to enrollment over the course of the pandemic with more than 700,000 fewer students registering, according to new data released on Thursday from the National Student Clearinghouse. “How do you build a...
by Charlotte Varnes | Jan 13, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Global average temperatures reached their sixth highest of all-time in 2021, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday. “We’ve reached a point where this global warming data that we’re talking about is no longer...
by Baylor Spears | Dec 5, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Christmas season is officially in full swing in the nation’s capital as the 99th annual National Christmas tree lighting ceremony drew crowds on Thursday evening. Marylanders got in on the festive celebration both in person and from afar. His first...
by Rayna Song | Oct 12, 2021 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — In August 2015, television reporter Alison Parker was live on air when a gunman approached her and killed her along with her cameraman Adam Ward. Despite multiple attempts from her father Andy Parker to take down videos of her final moments, people can...
by Ali McCadden | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A Kentucky abortion clinic and the state’s attorney general went head-to-head in Supreme Court oral arguments Tuesday on whether the attorney general waited too long to defend a restrictive abortion law in a case that could give insights into the...
by Mary Yang | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday indicated that she is leaning toward cutting the length of programs in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan to pare down the $3.5 trillion price tag. The spending package, which was originally slated to dole out...
by Linus Hoeller | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Amid rising tensions and unprecedented levels of Chinese incursions into Taiwan’s airspace, the island’s independence could be at stake if Taipei and Washington are not able to find a security strategy that stretches beyond military support to include...
by Jason Harward | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted late Thursday to raise the public debt limit by $480 billion, punting the political fight over the debt ceiling into early December. Although the bill itself passed on a 50-48 party-line vote, 11 Senate Republicans — a coalition...
