by Naomi Taxay | Oct 14, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital celebrated both Christopher Columbus and Indigenous Peoples on Monday, just days after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to reclaim Christopher Columbus’ legacy, which he said “left-wing arsonists” have sought to destroy....
by Desiree Luo and Avigna Ramachandran | Oct 14, 2025 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday projected the global economy to grow 3.2% in 2025, according to its latest World Economic Outlook. This figure represents a slowdown from 3.3% growth in 2024 but a 0.2% upward revision from the IMF’s July...
by Misha Manjuran Oberoi | Oct 14, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Health care administrators across rural America say financial pressures are mounting as federal support programs expire and Medicaid cuts take effect, putting many facilities at risk of closure. In Hugo, Colorado — a town of fewer than 1,000 people — that...
by Kally Proctor | Oct 14, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Since the government shut down on October 1, many federal employees are working without pay, have been furloughed, or have even been laid off. While these workers will have to go without pay, members of Congress will still receive their paychecks. That’s...
by Gabe Hawkins | Oct 14, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Washington Thursday night to discuss her new memoir, “107 Days.” Moderated by journalist Kara Swisher, the event was one of two held at the Warner Theatre that evening. During the book talk, which ran just...
by Isaiah Steinberg | Oct 10, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Nine days into the first government shutdown since 2019, about 750,000 federal employees have been furloughed, and the Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun laying off workers. Medill News Service spoke with four federal employees at...
by Desiree Luo | Oct 9, 2025 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — One day after questioning Attorney General Pam Bondi during a highly televised Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) attended a much quieter discussion before a smaller audience on Wednesday. “This is like a normal hearing,”...
by Misha Manjuran Oberoi | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – At an Oct. 8 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing, lawmakers examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping health care — from easing paperwork to raising new safety concerns, including reports of chatbot-linked teen...
by Alison Miller | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and experts argued that the U.S. supply chain’s overreliance on foreign-manufactured medicines, particularly from China and India, poses both health and national security risks during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The Senate Special...
by Avigna Ramachandran | Oct 9, 2025 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and witnesses emphasized the threat government censorship poses to First Amendment rights in a Senate Commerce hearing Wednesday, with Republicans referencing Biden officials’ censorship of social media and Democrats focusing on the current...
by Katarzyna Nguyen | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a massive overhaul of the reporting processes for military servicemembers to file whistleblower complaints and report discrimination during a speech last Tuesday, September 30, in Quantico, Virginia. “I call it the...
by Aanika Sawhney | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans expressed unified concerns on the need to protect Department of Defense personnel’s data during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday. Publicly available data across social media and other private information...
