by Jacques Abou-Rizk | Aug 11, 2026 | Education, Featured, Foreign Affairs
Nicolas Jaimes was in the middle of taking the LSAT in Amman, Jordan, when he heard the missile strikes. A junior at Cornell, the 20-year-old New York City native had spent less than two months in Jordan for his study abroad program, learning Arabic and...
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by Jacques Abou-Rizk and Olivia Ardito | Aug 11, 2026 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers considered whether the federal government needs to increase its regulation of sports prediction markets last Tuesday, just days after the end of the World Cup, the largest event ever for companies like Kalshi and Polymarket. Traditional sports...
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by Nicole Cheah | Jun 28, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON – Before U.S. President Donald Trump flew to Beijing last month, Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas hoped the summit would bring a breakthrough for her imprisoned sister, who has been detained in a Chinese prison for nearly eight years. Both the Senate and House...
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by Reece Dower | Jun 10, 2026 | Featured, Military, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s top officials conducted far fewer press briefings and interviews during a period of major combat operations than the department has in decades, a Medill News Service review of five previous U.S. military flashpoints showed. Instead,...
by Matthew Junkroski | May 28, 2026 | Education, Featured, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — Of the five minutes Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla, had to question Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon about the 2027 Department of Education budget, he spent four of them expressing his concerns about how a new rule creating a federal cap on student...
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by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | May 26, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Election officials warned lawmakers on Wednesday that threats against election workers and voting systems are escalating even as federal funding for election security remains far below 2020 levels, posing risks ahead of the 2026 midterms. In 2020,...
