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 Sarah Han | Mar 3, 2026 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — Dressed in red and blue, hundreds of former USAID employees rallied at the Ronald Reagan Building on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of the agency’s shutdown. In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued a 90-day freeze on foreign aid...
by Clara Martinez | Feb 26, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump launched into his State of the Union speech Tuesday night with sweeping bravado about the economy after his first year in office. At best, his claims were misleading or lacked context. At worst, they were blatantly false. Inflation...
by Kally Proctor | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices seemed likely to expand presidential ability to fire the heads of independent, multi-member federal agencies during oral arguments Monday. The case centers around President Donald Trump’s firing of Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal...
by Sophie Baker and Isabella Jacob | Nov 13, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Many voters in Virginia’s off-cycle election were dismayed by President Donald Trump’s handling of economic issues in his second term. With funding for food stamps running dry and Medicare premiums rising, many describe Trump as out of touch with the...