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...
by Charlotte Varnes | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Living, National Security
WASHINGTON –– When Jen Burch first returned from a tour in Afghanistan nearly a decade ago, she was seriously sick. Her temperature was so high that it was flagged going through the airport en route to Okinawa, her home base at the time. When she arrived, she took a...
by Grace Deng | Mar 28, 2022 | Education, Featured, Immigration
Mahdi Kabuli likes math. Sure, geometry eludes him sometimes, but overall he’s really good at the subject. At 18, Kabuli is already thinking about college, where he wants to study economics or computer science. As of last year, nearing the end of his time at the top...
by Jenny Huh | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, National Security
WASHINGTON – On August 25, 2021, Aryan Fardeen, along with his wife, mother, and three siblings, boarded a plane in Kabul in an urgent attempt to escape the Taliban. Over the span of three months, they traveled to Kuwait, Germany and Philadelphia, before settling in...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – For years, political prognosticators prophesied the coming civil war within the Republican Party, and for years, the expected reckoning on the right has failed to come to pass. Now, with the GOP out of power and former president Donald Trump still hung up...
