by Clare Zhang | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. — In 2020, Black voters in South Carolina handed now-President Joe Biden his first primary victory and helped propel him to the White House. This year, Biden changed South Carolina’s Democratic primary to the first in the nation, because its diversity...
by Alicia Tang and Lily Ogburn | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. – Many college students are choosing not to vote in Saturday’s Republican presidential primary election in South Carolina, saying they feel unrepresented by the candidates and apathetic towards politics. In 2020, only 16.4% of S.C. voters participated...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 20, 2024 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving commercial truckers that could expand the definition of transportation workers to include people who drive goods for companies that are not in the transportation sector. The case,...
by Simone Garber | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough faced intense questioning Wednesday from Republican lawmakers regarding allegations of sexual misconduct among the department’s high-ranking employees. The House Veterans Affairs’ Committee decided in a...
by Maria Heim | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans narrowly impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a 214-213 vote, making him the second Cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached on Tuesday evening. The former secretary is charged with willfully refusing to...
by Braedyn Speight | Feb 8, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday for the Trump v. Anderson case to decide whether Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” deeming him ineligible to be on Colorado’s primary ballot. The arguments lasted about two hours with little...
by Lily Ogburn | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Dafna Hochman Rand, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to crack down on accountability for human rights violations in both adversarial and...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Representatives on the House Transportation Committee grilled Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker Tuesday about air traffic controller shortages, near misses and the blowout of a door panel midflight on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet on an Alaska...
by Maria Heim | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — One month after a door blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft the Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker told members of Congress the agency remains unwavering in its commitment to safety. “One, what’s wrong with this airplane?” he said....
by Simone Garber | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers were divided Tuesday over the threat artificial intelligence poses to First Amendment rights, with Republicans asserting that the federal government is using the technology to censor free speech and Democrats calling attention to misinformation...
by Ellie Skelly | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — For weeks Republican lawmakers insisted that any funding for Ukraine must be met with a stricter border policy. Now, with a supplemental security bill within reach, some Republicans are backing away from a deal following former president Donald Trump’s...
by Jonah Elkowitz | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Thursday that he was “praying for peace” as conflicts like the Israel-Hamas war and the Houthi terror attacks near Yemen rage around the world. “Not only do we pray for peace, we are actively working for peace, security,...
