by Jorge Martinez and Lenna Peterson | Feb 19, 2025 | Business, Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor backpedaled her previous support for repealing right-to-work laws. Senators pressed nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former GOP congresswoman, about a pro-union bill she co-sponsored during her time in...
by Victoria Ryan | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured, Politics
Sen. Gary Peters’ (D-Mich.) recent decision to retire at the end of his term leaves a Senate seat in a battleground state up for grabs in 2026, and raises questions about whether the Midwestern state will provide a crystal ball into future national elections. “It’s...
by Jerry Wu | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people from across the country descended on the Capitol Reflecting Pool Monday for a President’s Day protest that organizers said was meant “to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach” by the Trump administration. The demonstration...
by Sofia Sorochinskaia | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A few dozen Russian immigrants in Washington gathered outside the White House Sunday to honor the memory of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison one year ago. As a show of solidarity, recordings of Navalny’s past speeches at...
by Sarah Serota | Feb 14, 2025 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans pressed to overhaul how the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates cryptocurrency at a hearing Tuesday, aligning themselves with the pro-cryptocurrency agenda President Donald Trump championed during the first few weeks of his...
by Jiah Choe | Feb 13, 2025 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats pressed Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon on her views for President Donald Trump’s education agenda including DEI, school choice and the president’s promise to downsize the Department of Education at her confirmation hearing...
by Rachel Spears | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Democrats say that a pause in foreign assistance is detrimental while House Republicans expressed their support for a restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “Instead of putting blame everywhere, we [should] focus on...
by Jeremy Fredricks | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Two foreign policy experts pushed Congress to support the new Syrian government as a means of stopping Russian and Iranian influence, and a bipartisan group of senators embraced their message. Former President Bashar al-Assad was forced out of office by a...
by Paris Fransway | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Senators on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee agreed the U.S. must increase its military presence in and relations with Greenland as China and Russia also try to establish Arctic military dominance. However, senators are divided on how to...
by Zoe Singer | Feb 12, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Trump initiated phone conversations Wednesday with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aimed at ending the ongoing war “immediately.” “The administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace...
by Lenna Peterson | Feb 12, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Following on President Trump’s call for the United States to acquire Greenland, senators from both parties on Wednesday coalesced around the need to increase US influence on the Arctic island. In a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and...
by Jerry Wu | Feb 11, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House Republicans reprimanded leaders of Veterans’ Affairs education programs at a Tuesday subcommittee hearing for “wasting billions and millions” of federal funds on recent projects, including the process to digitize the GI Bill. “We’re not going...
