by Sasha Draeger-Mazer | Feb 28, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Blair House, the residence used to accommodate foreign dignitaries, was busy this week as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer both paid visits to the White House, the first European leaders to do so since President...
by Micah Sandy | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) — John Phelan, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Navy, faced a tense confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday as Democratic lawmakers scrutinized plans to improve the...
by Micah Sandy | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump held his first Cabinet meeting of his second administration Wednesday, where he supported Elon Musk and discussed issues central to his agenda. Here are four key takeaways from the Cabinet meeting: Musk clarified intention of emails...
by Zoe Singer | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared nearly unanimously aligned during oral arguments Wednesday that lower courts applied an unfair burden of proof to an Ohio woman who filed a reverse discrimination claim against a state employer. Having worked at the...
by Jeremy Fredricks and Samanta Habashy | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday on which factors courts can consider when revoking supervised release for criminal defendants when not all possible factors are explicitly listed under federal law. Supervised release is when someone follows...
by Sofia Sorochinskaia | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security, Topics
After winning the German elections, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s mainstream conservatives and likely the next chancellor, stated Sunday that Germany must “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” This marks a significant shift in...
by Edward Cruz and Jeremy Fredricks | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Brandon Guffey’s 17-year-old son Gavin died by suicide in 2022 after a sexual predator blackmailed him online. The father and Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives sprang into action over the next year and spearheaded the...
by Rachel Spears | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – In a rapidly changing global landscape, the Trump administration’s foreign policy received mixed reviews from lawmakers as policy experts outlined plans to ensure American national security at a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Tuesday. ...
by Valerie Chu | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — In 1998, Ruben Gutierrez and two others were arrested after 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison was found beaten and stabbed to death with two screwdrivers and around $600,000 in cash stolen from her home in Brownsville, Texas. The prosecution argued that...
by Sasha Draeger-Mazer | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Leaders representing the United States and Russia met this week to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine as European NATO leaders and the Ukrainians themselves were iced out of the negotiations despite their enormous stake in the issue. But it’s only one...
by Sofia Sorochinskaia | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Ukrainian flags waved alongside those of the United States, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Belarus, Norway, Finland, and other nations in a display of solidarity with Ukraine at Saturday’s protest in front of the Lincoln Memorial. As February 24...
by Jerry Wu | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — For months, Reta Mays’ treachery slipped through the cracks at the VA hospital center in West Virginia where she worked as a nursing assistant. By injecting insulin in elderly patients who didn’t need it, she murdered seven people from 2017 to 2018. She...
