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...
by Gaby Striano | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Israel Defence Force has killed over 15,000 Palestinians since the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, catalyzing intense public discourse on the ethics of government and military actions. This polarization has struck the Jewish community...
by Khadija Ahmed and Angela Zhang | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Wednesday engaged in a spirited discussion with attorneys before the court on what qualifies as workplace discrimination. In the case before the court, Muldrow vs. City of St. Louis, Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow, a former sergeant...
by Pavan Acharya | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — With violence and threats against journalists increasing worldwide, senators on Wednesday heard from pro-democracy advocates who called for increased U.S. government efforts to combat efforts by foreign nations to threaten or kill political dissenters....
by Julian Andreone | Dec 6, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Ordinarily, Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, begins each hearing in the Senate Banking Committee with an opening statement on the matter at hand, but he was beaten to the punch on Wednesday by JPMorgan Chase CEO and billionaire establishment Democrat...
by Julian Andreone | Dec 6, 2023 | Business, Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Many of them have become household names: Rep. George Santos, Sen. Bob Menendez, former Rep. Charlie Rangel. The list goes on. Members of Congress facing allegations of engaging in brazen corruption often land in the center of very public scandals, then...
by Elleiana Green | Dec 5, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Pushing back against book bans across the country, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) was joined by his Democratic colleagues as he introduced the ‘Fight Book Bans Act’ on Tuesday. “The far right, fascist, MAGA extreme has caught up to the fact that their agenda...
by Jessica Ma | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A Senate bipartisan inquiry into the failures of the foster care system heard first-hand accounts of the neglect and abuse, with experts providing lawmakers with recommendations for changes on Oct. 25. The inquiry came on the heels of an independent...
by Matthew Vega | Dec 5, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — A case that the Supreme Court heard last week has many in business, and government legal circles worried about how far the court will go in limiting a key enforcement mechanism that the Securities and Exchange Commission regularly uses to go after fraud....
