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Community College Enrollment Drops, May Have Long-Term Impact On Skilled-Labor Force

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...
Global Temperatures In 2021 Among Hottest On Record, Agencies Say

Global Temperatures In 2021 Among Hottest On Record, Agencies Say

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...
Maryland students represent state at National Tree Lighting

Maryland students represent state at National Tree Lighting

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...
Slain journalist’s father asks Facebook to take down videos of her murder

Slain journalist’s father asks Facebook to take down videos of her murder

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...
Supreme Court considers dispute over Kentucky abortion law

Supreme Court considers dispute over Kentucky abortion law

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...
Pelosi signals earlier expiration date for Biden agenda

Pelosi signals earlier expiration date for Biden agenda

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...
Taiwan’s independence at risk if domestic policy doesn’t change course, experts say

Taiwan’s independence at risk if domestic policy doesn’t change course, experts say

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...
Short-term debt ceiling raise previews future debt standoff

Short-term debt ceiling raise previews future debt standoff

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...
Fifty-one protesters arrested at White House immigration rally

Fifty-one protesters arrested at White House immigration rally

by Ali McCadden | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON — Gabriel Madison began advocating for immigration reform a few years ago in support of a friend who is undocumented. On Thursday, as part of a demonstration in front of the White House, he and 50 other protesters — in a heightened display of communal...
Castro calls for expanding definition of refugee to include climate migrants

Castro calls for expanding definition of refugee to include climate migrants

by Christina van Waasbergen | Oct 7, 2021 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — People forced to flee their homes because of climate change should be considered refugees by the U.S., Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said Thursday. Speaking at an event hosted by the advocacy group Climate Refugees, Castro said America’s...
House Committee on Homeland Security tackles emergency communication inequities

House Committee on Homeland Security tackles emergency communication inequities

by Mikayla Denault | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — It has been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, and emergency communications have come a long way since the disaster. The House Committee on Homeland Security held an Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Subcommittee meeting Thursday to...
Dollars for small-scale ranchers, jabs for pigs at livestock hearing

Dollars for small-scale ranchers, jabs for pigs at livestock hearing

by Mary Yang | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, Living

WASHINGTON — Fair prices, supply chain backlogs and vaccines for pigs were hot topics Thursday at a House committee hearing on the United States livestock industry. Inventories of beef, pork and poultry are down for a variety of reasons such as drought, disease...
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