by Rachel Schlueter | Jan 5, 2024 | Education, Featured
For 15 years, three large boulders located on the University of Texas at Dallas campus were used to publicize events, display art and present political messages. After Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack of Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, and Israel’s subsequent...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruciating. She would need...
by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 18, 2023 | Environment, Featured
Environmentalists are raising alarms about the environmental harms of a proposed 20-mile stretch of border wall construction in the lower Rio Grande valley that experts say will intensify flooding in an area that is already flood prone. President Biden recently...
by Elleiana Green | Dec 18, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Transgender athletes in school sports left in limbo for months finally received an updated timeline from the Biden administration on its plan to update guidelines intended to protect them from discrimination. In April, the Biden administration proposed a...
by Angela Zhang | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured, Immigration
MANCHESTER, Md. — For Laura Araujo, a U.S. citizen and mother of five, every FaceTime with her husband Alberto is more than just a call: it’s a reminder of the 10 long years they must spend apart until Alberto is allowed to return to her and their children...
by Pavan Acharya | Dec 13, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A few months after returning to the U.S. following his deployment to Iraq, army veteran Mike Greenwood began required courses in 2006 for those leaving the military through the Transition Assistance Program, or TAP. Greenwood wanted to be a banker...
by Kristen Axtman | Dec 13, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has taken aim at the for-profit college industry with a new rule to help prevent students from being saddled with massive debts. The fate of the program, however, could lie in who occupies the White House in 2025. In September,...
by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 11, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – With the presidential election less than a year away, some voters are apprehensive about the future of climate policy. Many young climate activists have mixed feelings on President Biden’s climate progress, citing the Inflation Reduction Act as a win,...
by Casey He | Dec 8, 2023 | Business
WASHINGTON – When Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was in Beijing in August to discuss trade with economic officials, she and others in the tech industry were shocked by a new smartphone, unveiled by Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The phone was named the Mate 60 Pro,...
by Julian Andreone | Dec 8, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressman Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., an Iraq War veteran, former voting rights attorney and former labor union organizer, worked in election security for Pitt Cyber before entering Congress in 2022. Now, Deluzio joins Medill News Service for an exclusive...
by Kristen Axtman and Kunjal Bastola | Dec 7, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Congress believed it delayed fights over funding the wide-ranging Farm Bill by working in a one-year extension in the temporary budget deal in November. In reality, the debate over the biggest component of the bill – providing money for food and nutrition...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Stethoscope in one hand and a legislative pen in the other, these doctors are bringing their life-saving skills to Congress. “My job is to take care of the patient that’s in front of me, and as a member of Congress, my job is to take care of the...
