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Biden visits California as federal agencies look to help with recovery

by Caroline Neal | Jan 19, 2023 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON- President Joe Biden visited California on Thursday to assess the recent extreme storms, surveying the damage and meeting with state and local officials. California has been inundated with an onslaught of storms since December, which have caused dangerous...

VIDEO: Activists on the local, state and national level fight for prison phone justice

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,...

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STATE OF THE UNION 2018

Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network in Evanston to produce a package of stories covering President Barack Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address. The two newsrooms collaborated across time zones to produce a three-hour broadcast and more than a dozen print and digital reports. Check out our broadcast here.

CYBERSECURITY

In a series of investigative reports, Medill on the Hill reporters uncovered threats to privacy and security in the digital age ranging from the safety of your online campaign donations to how computer hacking could impact food safety.