by Megan Lebowitz | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — “That’s when I said to Mom, ‘I don’t want to die.’” Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody remembered her pleas to her mother as they stepped off a train and walked toward Gestapo in Jaroslaw, Poland. The jig was up — a German discovered they were...
by Megan Lebowitz | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — American companies would be prohibited from importing goods produced in Xinjiang, China, because they likely are made using the forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and others under a bill introduced last week by several Republican and Democratic members of...
by Olivia Olander | Mar 17, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Reading a map with her back to the Washington Monument, Anne Basanese, a grandmother on vacation from Massachusetts, prepared herself to respond to the novel coronavirus by cutting her trip a day short. “We pushed our luck coming here and we’re...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Gabriella Karin was eight the first time she heard Nazi propaganda. It was the day after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, in Europe. Within four years, officials announced the plan to declare her home country “judenrein” — cleansed of Jews....
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Even before he was appointed secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson called President Barack Obama’s 2015 rule requiring communities to comply with fair housing obligations by submitting plans a “failed socialist...
by Angelina Campanile | Mar 14, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
RICHMOND, Virginia– Former Vice President Joe Biden swept Virginia on Mar. 3, despite early polls showing Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg running neck-and-neck. Virginia was one of the 10 Super Tuesday states Biden carried, giving...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, National Security
Ending an endless conflict: efforts beyond the White House to bring peace to Israel and Palestine from Medill Washington on Vimeo. WASHINGTON – In the Israeli settlement of Shiloh, located where the ancient Biblical city of the same name is rumored to have been...
by Rupa Palla | Mar 12, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The economic relationship between the United States and India has grown under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, but the future of trade between the countries is uncertain. The U.S. goods and services...
by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are the most consistently Republican-voting religious demographic in the United States – even as the church increasingly emphasizes environmental stewardship in its teachings and literature. Pew...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin’s congressional delegation was unified in authorizing $8.3 billion to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, but much of lawmakers’ rhetoric on what the World Health Organization has labeled a global pandemic has split along partisan...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed $2 billion budget increase for the agency to $10.4 billion, saying the agency needs more resources for the influx of migrants to the border....
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Both Democrats and Republicans vehemently criticized two former Wells Fargo board members Wednesday for not changing practices after repeated management failures that have led to consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns. Former board members Elizabeth...
