by Edward Cruz | Mar 11, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Political science lecturer emeritus Jeff Rice (Weinberg ’72) was a sophomore at Northwestern at the height of anti-Vietnam War protests. The day after students voted to end a schoolwide strike, he and a group of peers broke into the Naval Reserve Officers...
by Sasha Draeger-Mazer | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON – White lab coats dotted the crowd gathered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday afternoon. Some attendees accessorized with oversized cardboard syringes, while others wore safety goggles pushed up onto their foreheads; this was – you guessed it...
by Samanta Habashy | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite the Trump administration’s threats to withhold funding, four Democratic mayors defended their cities’ sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,...
by Jeremy Fredricks | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) has been focused on confirming President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees for the first months of this Congressional term. Now he’s focusing on his priorities, both nationally and for his northern Wisconsin constituents. Jeremy...
by Jeremy Fredricks | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
President Donald Trump will give an annual address to Congress on Tuesday night. Trump is expected to talk about his priorities for the administration: immigration, foreign policy and the economy. Jeremy Fredricks has more from the White House. Watch the video report...
by Victoria Ryan | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday about who decides if prisoners have exhausted all of their available remedies when filing grievances, weighing the scopes of the Seventh Amendment and the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Kyle Richards, an...
by Jiah Choe | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The free mobile application once used by migrants to schedule appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border became an example, or in some cases a counterexample, of how technology should be leveraged in the U.S. immigration system. The CBP One mobile...
by Jerry Wu | Mar 5, 2025 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House granted a one month-exemption to any tariffs on cars coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday. Leavitt said that President Trump had met with the leaders of the “Big...
by Victoria Ryan and Lenna Peterson | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night, providing a sharp contrast to the partisanship displayed by Trump. Unity was the theme of the address, with Slotkin...
by Paris Fransway and Rachel Spears | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In an address to both chambers of Congress, President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised his government’s actions during the first 43 days of his second administration, highlighting a crackdown on illegal immigration, erasing what he considers wasteful...
by Lenna Peterson | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday about whether U.S. gun manufacturers can be held accountable for the production and sale of firearms and the proximate harm their products cause in Mexico by contributing to drug cartel violence. In...
by Jiah Choe | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Mardi Gras celebrations filled Wharf Street Saturday as attendees packed the street with food, laughter, music and dancing. The celebration kicked off with an hour-long parade down Wharf Street. Over 40 organizations participated in the parade, including...
