by Stephanie Markowitz | Jan 12, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Airports and airlines are attempting to recoup their losses and quell public exasperation a day after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to issue a 90-minute nationwide ground stop to air travel, scrambling schedules and grounding thousands of...
by Kate Walter | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Biden touted a promising inflation report and economic improvement in his remarks Thursday, while also addressing the second batch of classified documents found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware this morning. After delivering his remarks on...
by Saul Pink | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — In his first news conference since becoming Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowed to protect Medicare and Social Security, expressed openness to releasing security camera footage from the Capitol insurrection and announced plans to investigate...
by Joanna Hou | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — A consumer group is recommending that the Department of Transportation require airlines and ticket agents to provide prompt refunds to travelers in the event of cancellations or significant delays. The Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee made...
by Logan Schiciano | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Over two years after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the trial is underway for an Arkansas man who is the subject of one of the most well-known images from the day. Richard Barnett was photographed with his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker...
by Shannon Tyler | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his first weekly press conference for the 118th congress Thursday morning addressing Rep. George Santos’ (R-NY) investigations, ethics complaints and several bills passed by House Republicans this week. ...
by Lucia Barnum | Jan 11, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The GOP-led House on Wednesday passed a bill that would require doctors and other medical professions to provide care to infants who survive abortions. The bill, which passed 220-210, is one of two anti-abortion measures that the House took up on...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Jan 11, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Supporters of student loan debt relief praised the U.S. Department of Education’s newest proposed regulations that would reduce monthly student loan payments for millions of Americans, but many say it’s only a temporary fix to a bigger problem. The...
by Nicole Markus | Jan 11, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden and his lawyers “did the right thing” by immediately turning over classified documents discovered in a Washington office he used after his vice presidency. Lawyers found the “small...
by Brennan Leach | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Abigail Cate anticipated a long day of work on the Senate floor as a chamber assistant. She was expected to aid Republican staff and senators as they voted to certify the 2020 presidential election and help other chamber...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – “One cannot wage war,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said, “without the support of public opinion.” What happens, though, when the public seems readier for war than the U.S. government? Recent polling data presents just that question. Cygnal Polling &...
by Shannon Coan | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — From where Rosa Parks’ statue sits in National Statuary Hall, her likeness stares at a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A couple of statues away from her sits Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens. There are more statues of...
