by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Feb 8, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month. The IEA, which publishes a series...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Acclaimed poet and writer Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to have her likeness featured on a quarter after the U.S. Mint released the newly minted coin on Jan. 10. The Maya Angelou coin is the first in a series of quarters to be released...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists placed thousands of pairs of flip flops on the National Mall last weekend to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has resulted in more than 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the country. Demonstrators also lobbied for...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 10, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — First Lady Jill Biden honored children in military and veteran care-giving families as part of her Joining Forces initiative at a White House event ahead of Veterans Day. Supporting these kids who are “growing up in the shadow of more than 20 years of...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Voters in Virginia spoke with our reporters on Election Day about the state’s neck-and-neck governor’s race. This report was published in conjunction with USA Today. 8:00 p.m. By Cristobella Durrette RICHMOND, VIRGINIA — Voters across the Richmond area...
