by Khadija Islow | Mar 27, 2020 | Business, Featured
Middle-class Americans employed in sectors of the economy already hit by the COVID-19 pandemic who are unemployed or in danger of becoming unemployed now should expect another hit unless the government moves quickly to implement the benefits in the $2 trillion...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
It is doubtful that the COVID-19 pandemic will disappear this summer like many other respiratory viruses that go away as the weather gets warmer, Dr. Anthony Fauci told more than 45,000 users during an Instagram Live session on Thursday. The director of the National...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Wednesday it is seeking $255 million to deliver equipment to test refugees and migrants for the coronavirus, to deliver medical supplies and to install handwashing stations in camps and settlements. The...
by Rupa Palla | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law 10 years ago this month. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, access to health care will likely weigh heavily on voters in the remaining Democratic primaries leading up to the Democratic National...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When Matthew Petersen left his role as a commissioner in the Federal Election Commission at the end of August, the campaign finance oversight agency no longer had a quorum four commissioners — leaving it unable to meet. The Senate Republicans finally...
by Suzy Vazquez and Cassidy Wang | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rachel Fey remembers struggling to get health insurance to cover her birth control costs – more than $400 out of pocket for three months of her pills. For some women, paying for food and shelter often doesn’t leave enough left over to pay for birth...
by Martha Castro and Khadija Islow | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
With increasing concerns about the coronavirus spreading in Iran’s overcrowded prisons, Michael White, an American citizen detained in Iran since 2018, has been temporarily released, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, although four other American imprisoned...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 19, 2020 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a rather ordinary hearing, with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifying to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee about her department’s budget request for the next fiscal year. But in her opening remarks, Sen. Patty Murray of...
by Janea Wilson | Mar 19, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—For 93 years, Americans have celebrated the blooming of Japanese Cherry Blossom trees on the tidal basin of the Potomac River. The festival’s start date has moved about 20 days earlier over the years due in part to rising global temperatures, scientists...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
A bill mandating paid sick leave and expanding federal unemployment benefits that won resounding bipartisan approval in the House and Senate received no support from Wisconsin’s Republicans, who say it was rushed and would put further strain on small businesses. The...
by Olivia Olander | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Campaigns, interest groups and political parties may not be effectively tapping into a pool of nearly 100 million Americans in 2020: nonvoters. There’s greater focus on people who will likely turn out in November, rather than finding new groups of voters...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Angelica Maria Gonzalez, found out she’d been accepted to law school while living in a homeless shelter. Her world was turned upside down when she lost her child care subsidies roughly a decade ago, after an unsolicited, one time child support check...
