by Jasmine Kim | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people walked out of work and school Tuesday, gathering at Pershing Park near the White House, as part of the Free D.C. Walkout Against Fascism — a nationwide day of action that organizers say is meant to confront what they describe as growing...
by Marissa Fernandez | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely to prevent the federal government from removing Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook from her position while her legal challenges against the government continue to make their way through the court system. Wednesday...
by Alexia Sextou | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers grilled officials from the Transportation Security Administration and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about their involvement in enforcing immigration law in the Homeland Security Committee’s first full hearing of the year...
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 | Living
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...
