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...
by Casey He | Sep 28, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Election experts, including a former head of the Federal Election Commission, warned members of Congress on Wednesday of the dangers of AI-generated content in elections. Trevor Potter, a Republican who chaired the FEC under President Bill Clinton, said...
by Kunjal Bastola | Sep 28, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Native American communities are still woefully behind in reliable access to water, a public health problem that is exposing populations to an array of issues, from personal hygiene to respiratory illness. In an effort to ensure that the federal government...
by Elleiana Green | Sep 27, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Fearing executive overreach, Republican lawmakers hammered the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about the agency’s new rules for excessive heat in the workplace on Wednesday. Lawmakers questioned Douglas...
by Kristen Axtman | Sep 27, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, advocated for a bill he introduced in April that would fund Medicare for decades to come, according to an estimate released last week from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
by Logan Schiciano | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Congressman James Moylan (R-Guam) is the first Republican to represent Guam in Congress in 30 years, but he hasn’t wasted any time making an impact. While Moylan’s transition to Capitol Hill has come with challenges – his home and constituents are over...
by Kate Walter | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Longtime progressive lawmakers and labor advocates are hopeful that the Biden administration will be more emboldened to expand overtime pay rules in the coming months after a recent Supreme Court ruling in an employment law case and if the president’s new...
by Davis Giangiulio and Avani Kalra | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has long been vocal about lowering drug prices nationwide, but his plan has avoided a part of the problem. Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, comprise a $450 billion industry and are crucial in determining the costs consumers pay at...
by Saul Pink | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Julia Orzol’s profile on Opendorse, a marketplace that connects student-athletes with brands seeking testimonials and appearances, said she could charge $19 to film a video for a fan and $89 to post for her 15,000 Instagram followers. However, Orzol isn’t...
by Lucia Barnum | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Watching votes trickle in on primary election night in 2020, Laura Becerra said she felt a mix of excitement and anxiety. As the Latinx Constituency coordinator for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in Nevada, Becerra was anxious to see if the months of...
by Jacob Wendler | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Kora Delta was one of thousands of U.S. troops who helped evacuate more than 100,000 people from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. The mission came as she was awaiting gender-affirming care, a few months after the Biden administration announced that...
by Davis Giangiulio | Mar 18, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
In 2011, then-President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner were prepared to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to support a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit. The deal didn’t become reality, but it showed both parties were prepared to slash these...
