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 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 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 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...
by Diego Ramos Bechara | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
It began with Missouri and Maine back in 1890. It ended in 1959, when Democrats pressured Republican President Eisenhower to grant statehood to Alaska if he hoped to make Hawaii the 50th state. For decades, states were added into the Union in pairs, the intent of...
by Julia Richardson | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists and lawmakers are fighting for incarcerated individuals’ right to stay in touch with the people they love. “For someone who’s really isolated from their support systems, a phone call is really all they’ve got,” said Kelsey De Avila,...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Public faith in mass media has reached an all-time low over the past few years. With coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine boosting program ratings, cable news networks have an opportunity to shore up their credibility in the eyes of the American...
by Jenny Huh | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — The People’s Convoy, also known as the “Freedom Convoy,” reached the D.C. area Sunday morning, looping twice around the Capital Beltway. About 1,000 vehicles participated, according to The Washington Post. Inspired by the Canadian freedom convoy protests...
by Samantha Aguilar | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil and gas on Tuesday, minutes before boarding Marine One to Fort Worth, Texas. Biden, accompanied by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, traveled to speak with veterans and VA...
by Zachary Miller | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The arrival of several truck convoys in the nation’s capital has, so far, failed to live up to the hype. In February, anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors used cars and trucks to blockade Ottawa and a nearby major shipping highway. Similar protests...
