by Carlotta Angiolillo | Mar 5, 2026 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Fifty three medical schools will dedicate at least 40 hours of students’ degree requirements to nutrition education beginning next fall, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced on Thursday. In a survey of 133 U.S. medical...
by Cate Bouvet | Mar 5, 2026 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators on the Foreign Relations Committee have sharply criticized Troy Edgar, the nominee for ambassador to El Salvador, over his actions as Department of Homeland Security deputy secretary under President Donald Trump. At Edgar’s nomination...
by Alexia Sextou | Mar 3, 2026 | Featured, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Tuesday as she faced intense scrutiny by lawmakers during her first Senate hearing since the Minnesota Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings in...
by Marissa Fernandez | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called for immediate and dramatic changes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a press conference Thursday. Jeffries’s comments come as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown. If a...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Democratic members of Congress accused the Department of Homeland Security of defying a federal court order Monday after DHS announced a newly revived policy requiring lawmakers to give a week’s notice before conducting oversight visits to ICE...