by Janea Wilson | Mar 9, 2020 | Campaign 2020
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Sen. Bernie Sanders told supporters on Sunday that they can see Martin Luther King’s famous arc of the moral university finally bending toward justice as they make change leading to Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary. Over 10,000...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 5, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LOS ANGELES – Jorge Bravo paces back-and-forth outside of a polling place in South Gate, Calif., as his 18-year-old daughter Guadalupe casts her first ballot. Guadalupe Bravo is not only a first-time voter, but a first-generation voter. The daughter of Mexican...
by Alex Moore | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Facebook removed President Donald Trump’s campaign ads that resemble Census Bureau ads Thursday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Facebook of being more concerned about its profits than getting an accurate 2020 census count. Pelosi said...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Mar 5, 2020 | Education
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promoted the Trump administration’s school choice program and criticized America’s “antiquated approach to education” Thursday before a Senate subcommittee while defending her department’s proposed $66.56 billion budget...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 5, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LOS ANGELES – Daniel Kohanbash could see the raging Getty Fire from a dorm room window at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It smells like there’s a barbeque on campus, times ten,” Kohanbash said, a sophomore at UCLA. “It’s...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 5, 2020 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hostages are being held in crowded prisons in Iran where coronavirus cases are surging, said a family member of two American hostages in Iran during a briefing on Thursday. “I’m horrified for my brother and father. They are cooped up in overly...
by Martha Castro and Khadija Islow | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON— Families of American hostages in Iran on Thursday called on the House to approve a bill that would increase government assistance to Americans wrongfully detained abroad and impose sanctions on foreign officials responsible for the detainments. “Any...
by Sneha Day and Megan Lebowitz | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a highly anticipated case that could restrict access to abortions by requiring doctors who perform abortions to be able to admit patients at nearby hospitals. The case, June Medical Services LLC v. Russo,...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 4, 2020 | Technology
WASHINGTON — More than half of federal agencies surveyed have not kept pace in replacing expiring telecommunications contracts, which could cost the government millions of dollars, an official from the Government Accountability Office told a House Oversight...
by Janea Wilson | Mar 4, 2020 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Financial support is what is most needed by local governments to fight coronavirus Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday. Ezike said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
by Martha Castro | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON—While some Democrats in Congress have criticized the Trump administration’s program requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for a ruling on their claims, some experts say lawmakers should attempt to block funds for the program and require more oversight....
by Rupa Palla | Mar 4, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Topics
RICHMOND — Virginia Commonwealth University students felt the “Bern” at a Super Tuesday watch party as they anxiously waited for results, but a Bernie Sanders victory never came. Nearly all of the VCU students who gathered to watch the election results on TV at...
