by Christina van Waasbergen | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured, Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — For years, the only way doctors like family physician Dr. Graham Chelius could offer their patients abortion pills was by giving them the medication in their offices, a restriction put in place by the Food and Drug Administration. Chelius wasn’t able to...
by Lynn Liu and Pingping Yin | Jun 12, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
CHEROKEE, N.C. — When Dawn Arneach was a teenager in the ‘80s, she spent summers at her grandparents’ house next to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee, home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Despite all the time she spent with her...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Jun 7, 2023 | Energy, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany—In the steel-gray North Sea waters of the port of Wilhelmshaven floats an impressively long tanker, the German government’s answer to the nation’s energy crisis. The Höegh Esperanza, sprawling the length of three football fields, is what’s known...
by Alexa Erbach | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — Mifepristone, the most widely used drug for medication abortion, made headlines in April when a federal district judge in Texas called the FDA’s approval of the drug fundamentally flawed. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA was appealed...
by Lynn Liu | May 25, 2023 | Business & Tech, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress on Wednesday maintained that federal regulators, as well as bank executives, should be held accountable for the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and other two banks. “The executives and the board of Silicon Valley Bank clearly...
by Grant Schwab | May 21, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Few people seem happy with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and her department’s management of energy resources on federal lands and waters. To this day, a particular focus of indignation is her handling of a December lease auction for oil extraction...