by Brooke Sharp | Jan 21, 2026 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 34 to 8 Wednesday to pass a resolution to hold former President Bill Clinton, 79, in criminal contempt of Congress, after he refused to attend a scheduled deposition in the investigation into...
by Carlotta Angiolillo | Jan 21, 2026 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – After the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits expired on Jan. 1, Rena Bumbray-Graves and her husband could no longer afford their health insurance, so they dropped their plan. Bumbray-Graves, a home care worker and member of the Service...
by André Hiroki | Jan 21, 2026 | Business
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers pressed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner on oversight of federal housing programs and the Federal Housing Administration during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, as housing affordability remains a...
by Gloria Ngwa | Jan 21, 2026 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats last week called for reforms of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after the killing of Renee Nicole Good. Good, 37, was shot and killed on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent in her vehicle in Minneapolis, days after the Trump...
by André Hiroki | Jan 21, 2026 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Protesters in Washington joined a nationwide walkout on Jan. 20, marking one year since President Donald Trump returned to office for a second term. Demonstrators gathered around Pershing Park after leaving work and school as part of a visible protest...
by Clara Martinez and Isabel Papp | Jan 21, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON D.C. — On the coldest day of the year, University of Maryland English professor Orrin Wang came to the National Mall on Tuesday to see the anonymous art group The Secret Handshake’s latest protest piece against the Trump administration. “I don’t know if...
by Chloe Park | Jan 21, 2026 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Clad in heavy winter coats and holding signs in mitten-covered hands, hundreds of demonstrators decried President Trump in Pershing Park on Tuesday. “Free Minnesota, free Chicago, free Gaza, free Puerto Rico, free Venezuela, free all our people,” Free...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Tuesday seemed divided while hearing oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, a case concerning a Hawaii gun restriction. The law in question, known among gun rights activists as the “vampire rule”, prevents people with concealed carry...
by Dasha Dubinina | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sandra Moreland and Carl Grady finally visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on Friday, after a previous visit was thwarted by the government shutdown. The couple traveled from Detroit for a second time in a few...
by Jasmine Kim | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Federal workers from across the country gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, calling on the Senate to take up the Protect America’s Workforce Act — legislation they say is essential to restoring union rights stripped away under a recent...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Democratic members of Congress accused the Department of Homeland Security of defying a federal court order Monday after DHS announced a newly revived policy requiring lawmakers to give a week’s notice before conducting oversight visits to ICE...
by Cate Bouvet | Jan 15, 2026 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Republican and Democratic Senators on Thursday expressed similar concerns over the harmful effects of social media and AI on children, highlighting the need to address the “societal emergency” through federal regulations at a Senate Commerce,...
