by Valerie Chu | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured, Politics
OXON HILL, Md. — The painting sailed across the crowd to Elon Musk’s waiting hands. Depicting Musk rising from a futuristic Martian-like city while staring stately ahead with multicolored waves radiating from his head, artist and event attendee Seth Leibowitz’s...
by Jiah Choe | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The nonprofit organization that manages legal assistance for unaccompanied children who arrive in the United States scrambled to meet the needs of more than 26,000 children after a stop-work order stalled all federal funding. The Department of the...
by Sarah Serota | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — National Security Advisor Michael Waltz reinforced the White House’s finger-pointing at Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Thursday’s White House press briefing, opting not to condemn Russia for starting the almost three-year-long war in...
by Micah Sandy | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Over one hundred federal workers, union members and community supporters marched to SpaceX’s office Wednesday evening in a fiery protest against Elon Musk’s restructuring of federal operations. The demonstration, organized by the Federal Unionists...
by Edward Cruz | Feb 19, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Power outages regularly disrupt school in Arizona’s White Mountain Apache Tribe, leading to spoiled food, limited access to technology and cold classrooms. School administrators sometimes heat buildings with kerosene. In some cases, they must close the...
by Jorge Martinez and Lenna Peterson | Feb 19, 2025 | Business, Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor backpedaled her previous support for repealing right-to-work laws. Senators pressed nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former GOP congresswoman, about a pro-union bill she co-sponsored during her time in...
by Victoria Ryan | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured, Politics
Sen. Gary Peters’ (D-Mich.) recent decision to retire at the end of his term leaves a Senate seat in a battleground state up for grabs in 2026, and raises questions about whether the Midwestern state will provide a crystal ball into future national elections. “It’s...
by Jerry Wu | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people from across the country descended on the Capitol Reflecting Pool Monday for a President’s Day protest that organizers said was meant “to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach” by the Trump administration. The demonstration...
by Sofia Sorochinskaia | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A few dozen Russian immigrants in Washington gathered outside the White House Sunday to honor the memory of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison one year ago. As a show of solidarity, recordings of Navalny’s past speeches at...
by Sarah Serota | Feb 14, 2025 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans pressed to overhaul how the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates cryptocurrency at a hearing Tuesday, aligning themselves with the pro-cryptocurrency agenda President Donald Trump championed during the first few weeks of his...
by Jiah Choe | Feb 13, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats pressed Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon on her views for President Donald Trump’s education agenda including DEI, school choice and the president’s promise to downsize the Department of Education at her confirmation hearing...
by Rachel Spears | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Democrats say that a pause in foreign assistance is detrimental while House Republicans expressed their support for a restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “Instead of putting blame everywhere, we [should] focus on...
