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...
by Isabella Jacob | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – On the second anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Tuesday, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) proposed bipartisan legislation that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to all hostages held by Hamas after the attack. During a press...
by Avigna Ramachandran | Oct 7, 2025 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – From Washington to Wall Street, policymakers and economists await the release of the monthly jobs report, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on the first Friday of every month, commonly known as “jobs Friday.” This past Friday morning,...
by Lexi Newsom | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured, Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed wary of conversion therapy bans after hearing oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar on Tuesday. Chiles v. Salazar examines whether Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy for minors violates a therapist’s right to free speech or...
by Sophie Baker | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected numerous questions about Justice Department investigations into President Donald Trump’s political rivals while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Her refrain? “I am not going to discuss...
by Gabe Hawkins | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and Republicans have yet to reach an agreement on government funding, extending the shutdown into a second week. The shutdown continues amid partisan divides over government spending. In the Democrats’ proposed spending resolution,...
by Desiree Luo and Cassie Sun | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” called for Congress to reject the White House’s proposed cuts to NASA’s funding. Nye is a long-time television personality and CEO of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit organization that promotes space exploration. He gathered...
by Naomi Taxay | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday accused Democrats of forcing a government shutdown over “free health care for illegal aliens,” echoing Republican lawmakers. But the Affordable Care Act subsidies at issue have never been available to undocumented immigrants,...
by Philip Lam | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINTON — The federal government shut down Wednesday after the Senate failed to pass a funding bill that would keep the government open until at least late October. Republicans blame Democrats for holding the government hostage in efforts to push through health care...
by Avigna Ramachandran | Oct 2, 2025 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Senate Finance Committee debated the fairness and transparency of current cryptocurrency tax policy on Tuesday, seeking to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda of global leadership in the industry. The hearing proceeded on the first day of the...
