by Alexia Sextou | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — As Congress considers whether to renew surveillance legislation enacted after Sept. 11, 2001, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command told senators that authority is “indispensable.” “I know it’s...
by Marissa Fernandez | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called for immediate and dramatic changes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a press conference Thursday. Jeffries’s comments come as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown. If a...
by Melody Xu | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties blamed the Food and Drug Administration and manufacturers for keeping Americans in the dark about where exactly their prescription drugs are made, during a Senate hearing Thursday. While food and clothing products commonly...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy brought in the singer Kid Rock and representatives of the ticketing industry to debate the resale ticket market and the unfair practices of bot ticket purchasing. Chair Sen....
by Chloe Park | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Native American tribal leaders, advocates and policy experts expressed strong support Wednesday for a draft bill aimed at providing justice and protections for Native children. Speakers emphasized the need for federal support of culturally responsive...
by Brooke Sharp | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Live Nation executive, Dan Wall, on Wednesday told senators that despite his company’s measures to fend off millions of automated bots, they are not able to stop them from excessively increasing the prices of resale tickets. “We’re fighting back with the...
by Clara Martinez | Jan 29, 2026 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Federal Open Market Committee announced that the federal funds rate will remain at 3.5-3.75% on Wednesday. In his first press conference since the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into renovation spending, Federal Reserve Chairman...
by Sarah Han and Isabel Papp | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., clashed at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday over whether U.S. actions could spark international conflict after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. ...
by David Sun | Jan 28, 2026 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — With the United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and environmental regulations being dismantled under the Trump administration, Democrats are reexamining whether climate change still resonates in American politics. Earlier this week, the...
by Ben Shapiro | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are opposing a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of two deadly shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Minnesota, in a move that will likely lead to a partial government shutdown...
by Cate Bouvet | Jan 28, 2026 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — In a debate over how to fix the struggling American education system, senators disputed policies that allow public education funds to follow students to schools of their choice, including private schools. “Traditional schools work for many students, what...
by Dasha Dubinina | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday clock to 85 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, the shortest the metaphorical countdown to apocalypse has ever been in the clock’s 79-year-long history. The science-oriented advocacy group emphasized...
