by Summer Hu | Oct 1, 2026 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Senators called for greater accountability from tech companies at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday, amid a nationwide reconciliation with cybersecurity and recent AI attacks. Senators questioned a panel of AI industry executives and experts, including a...
by Maya Heyman | Sep 30, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican bill that would bar members of Congress from buying stocks. The 53-47 party-line procedural vote fell seven votes shy of the 60 needed to advance the measure. The Stop Insider Trading Act would have...
by Sophia Bateman | Sep 30, 2026 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Senate failed to advance a bill aimed at stopping households and small businesses from footing the bill for data centers’ growing electricity needs Wednesday, falling three votes short of the 60 needed to move the measure past the filibuster. The...
by Grace Wu | Sep 30, 2026 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires fought for the agency’s immediate fiscal future before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on Tuesday, citing a three-year low in backlog but glossing over details of patent...
by Siddarth Sivaraman and Sai Trivedi | Sep 30, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday signaled they were ready to continue an investigation into contempt charges for Trump administration officials who defied a judge’s orders last year to halt three flights of Venezuelan migrants to a notorious Salvadoran...
by Ryan Ottignon | Sep 30, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Ted Postol has spent much of the last three and a half decades digging into, and often tearing apart, American missile defense systems. Since President Donald Trump proposed his Golden Dome system in an executive order last January, the MIT professor...
by Annie Jiang | Sep 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Former special counsel Jack Smith defended allegations that investigators improperly obtained communications and phone records involving members of Congress on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During the contentious four-hour hearing,...
by Carlotta Angiolillo | Apr 21, 2026 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – When Abigail Meyers tried to refill her Hyrimoz prescription in February, she was shocked to discover that she had to pay around $1,400. The previous month, the cost was zero dollars. “I was like, ‘Okay, that’s a big jump,’” Meyers said. “So I had...
by Cate Bouvet | Apr 13, 2026 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Cris Gulacy-Worrell used to call herself a “public school purist,” openly advocating against school voucher programs in the early 2010s. Then she founded Oakmont Education, a network of charter schools in Ohio, Iowa and Michigan, designed to help students...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Apr 1, 2026 | Featured, Politics
For years, gun rights activists counted President Donald Trump as one of their strongest allies in Washington. Now, some say they feel betrayed. Recent policy moves and statements from Trump and his administration have left gun rights activists questioning Trump’s...
by Gloria Ngwa | Apr 1, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – For more than a month, Democrats have refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security while demanding that the agency limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in ten specific ways after federal agents killed two people during federal...
by Anisha Iqbal | Apr 1, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– From analyzing satellite imagery to helping commanders process battlefield information, artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important tool in how the United States military plans and conducts operations throughout the Middle East and the...
