by Clare Zhang | Feb 14, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The House Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to take away the Department of Energy’s authority over liquefied natural gas permits, effectively reversing the Biden administration’s pause on permit approvals that began last month. During the...
by Cate Bikales and Shravya Pant | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
Black women are at greatest risk of dying from pregnancy-related complications. Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring devices, are showing promise in helping prevent such deaths. The U.S. medical community is desperately...
by Jonah Elkowitz | Feb 8, 2024 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senators voiced fierce opposition over the state of the U.S. economy on Thursday during a hearing to examine the results of the Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council annual report, released in December. The report highlighted how...
by Maria Heim | Feb 8, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented case that could determine the fate of former President Donald Trump’s appearance on the Colorado Republican primary ballot, oral arguments before the Supreme Court lasted over two hours on Thursday. At the center is whether the...
by Lance Wilhelm | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers met Thursday to discuss a series of legislation meant to correct injustices facing Native Americans, some of which have been overlooked for centuries. Proposals to help provide tribes commercial independence, improved health care services and...
by Braedyn Speight | Feb 8, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday for the Trump v. Anderson case to decide whether Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” deeming him ineligible to be on Colorado’s primary ballot. The arguments lasted about two hours with little...
by Emma Sullivan | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Thursday grilled the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies on why the U.S. pays the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, demanding that they find ways to lower medication costs. “The outrageous cost of prescription...
by Lindsey Byman | Feb 8, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans on Thursday attacked the Biden administration’s pause on reviewing liquefied natural gas export applications, saying it will harm the energy security of the U.S. and its allies, even as officials say the move will not prevent the U.S....
by Lily Ogburn | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Dafna Hochman Rand, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to crack down on accountability for human rights violations in both adversarial and...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Representatives on the House Transportation Committee grilled Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker Tuesday about air traffic controller shortages, near misses and the blowout of a door panel midflight on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet on an Alaska...
by Maria Heim | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — One month after a door blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft the Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker told members of Congress the agency remains unwavering in its commitment to safety. “One, what’s wrong with this airplane?” he said....
by Clare Zhang | Feb 6, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Tuesday drew partisan battlelines after the Biden administration paused approvals for liquefied natural gas exports, arguing over what would best protect the environment, local communities and national security. Democrats at a House Energy...
