by Ellie Skelly | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON- Some Senate Republicans are backing away from border negotiations, responding to calls from former President Donald Trump to abandon the deal. For weeks Congress has been working to pass a funding bill that bundled aid for the war in Ukraine and border...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Experts in the commercial shipping industries outlined the ever-increasing humanitarian and economic costs of recent Iran-backed Houthi militant strikes on American ships positioned in the Red Sea during a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. The continuing...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned lawmakers on Tuesday that China is increasingly collaborating with nations hostile to the United States and urged lawmakers to provide more support to help Taiwan...
by Emma Sullivan | Jan 27, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured
HAMPTON, N.H. — President Joe Biden easily won the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday as a write-in candidate. Biden won 64% of the vote, beating nearly two dozen opponents, including Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Marianne Williamson. The Democratic...
by Charlotte Ehrlich and Clare Zhang | Jan 25, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Thursday stressed the urgency of renewing the National Flood Insurance Program, with reforms to rein in ever-increasing premiums that are becoming harder for homeowners to afford. The Senate Banking Committee is working to reauthorize the...
by Emma Sullivan | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics
HAMPTON, N.H. — Heading into the New Hampshire primaries, Hampton resident Linda McGrath knew which candidate would get her vote: former President Donald Trump. She held two signs outside a polling station in Hampton — one read “Secure Borders” and the other “No...
by Jonah Elkowitz | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Senators and legal experts on Wednesday questioned the integrity of artificial intelligence in analyzing evidence in criminal cases as more police departments and intelligence agencies turn to artificial intelligence for their core functions. The Miami...
by Maria Heim | Jan 25, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
ATKINSON, N.H. — Every four years poll workers in New Hampshire gear up for the first-in-the-nation primary. In Atkinson, a town of about five thousand voters, ballot clerks are trained weeks in advance and meet the night before. Town Moderator Jim Garrity oversees...
by Ruby Grisin | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics
Published Jan. 24; Updated Jan. 25 HAMPTON, N.H. – Pro-Palestinian activists organized an initiative to urge voters in the Democratic primary to write-in “ceasefire” on Tuesday in hopes of sending a message to President Joe Biden. But after the election, it’s not...
by Simone Garber | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Officials at three federal agencies responsible for preserving records and history said Wednesday that artificial intelligence has the ability to improve their jobs, but several lawmakers on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee urged caution in...
by Clare Zhang | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The United Auto Workers union endorsed President Joe Biden Wednesday, joining a growing list of unions supporting his re-election bid. UAW President Shawn Fain delivered the endorsement before Biden’s keynote speech on the last day of the union’s national...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Activists and lawmakers are calling on the United Nations to push for concrete changes in China’s treatment of Tibetans, Hong Kongers and the Muslim-minority Uyghurs after the global body released its universal periodic review, or UPR, of China on...
