by Anson Zhang | Mar 31, 2023 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers called for tighter regulation of big tech companies in the U.S. at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, addressing the intensifying debate over the growing influence social media platforms have on society. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), Chairman of the...
by Kate Walter | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Longtime progressive lawmakers and labor advocates are hopeful that the Biden administration will be more emboldened to expand overtime pay rules in the coming months after a recent Supreme Court ruling in an employment law case and if the president’s new...
by Davis Giangiulio and Avani Kalra | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has long been vocal about lowering drug prices nationwide, but his plan has avoided a part of the problem. Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, comprise a $450 billion industry and are crucial in determining the costs consumers pay at...
by Lucia Barnum | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Watching votes trickle in on primary election night in 2020, Laura Becerra said she felt a mix of excitement and anxiety. As the Latinx Constituency coordinator for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in Nevada, Becerra was anxious to see if the months of...
by Davis Giangiulio | Mar 18, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
In 2011, then-President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner were prepared to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to support a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit. The deal didn’t become reality, but it showed both parties were prepared to slash these...
by Joanna Hou | Mar 18, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Videos promoting 300 calorie diets and other pro-anorexia content flooded Amanda Noll’s TikTok feed, even as she searched for videos encouraging eating disorder recovery. Noll, a college student and support specialist at Legacy Treatment Services, has...
by Caroline Neal | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– As Democrats and Republicans prepare to spar over the debt ceiling, a quieter debate on scaling back defense spending is brewing within the Republican Party. The prospect of defense cuts started during Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for speaker of the...
by Brennan Leach and Logan Schiciano | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Morgantown, W. Va. — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) must soon decide if he will seek reelection from a majority Republican constituency. Manchin is no stranger to high-stakes decisions, as he often determined the life or death of President Biden’s...
by Caroline Neal | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. –– President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to increase gun safety while speaking on Monday in Monterey Park, Calif., the site of a mass shooting in January that claimed 11 lives and left nine injured. The Executive Order aims to reduce gun...
by Nicole Markus | Mar 13, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Cooper Solomon is a happy 12-year-old. He lives in South Florida with his family and his dogs. He’s a middle school student with caring friends. He loves wearing dresses, makeup and fun hairstyles. And, according to his mom Jennifer Solomon, he could be taken into...
by Shannon Tyler | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic Senators along with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) grilled Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw on Thursday after the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as two other derailments in recent weeks, for the industry’s lack of investment in safety...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday slammed a proposal by House Republicans to ban transgender females from sports teams, calling them “congressional bullies.” This comes as Republican members on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce...
