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Republicans attack ‘Biden border crisis’ at House Judiciary Committee hearing

Republicans attack ‘Biden border crisis’ at House Judiciary Committee hearing

by Christina van Waasbergen | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee attacked the Biden administration Wednesday for policies they claimed encourage undocumented immigration and allow a flood of drugs across the southern border. At a session on “the Biden border...
Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

by Emma Ricketts and Grant Schwab | Jan 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured

While the prospects for a bitterly divided Congress to produce further ambitious climate legislation are almost nonexistent, newly named Republican leaders of key House committees say they want to help bring the U.S. closer to its emissions goal. “There’s...
Florida cities learning how to profit from pickleball

Florida cities learning how to profit from pickleball

by Margaret Fleming | Jan 26, 2023 | Featured, Sports

As Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer opened the pickleball session at the United States Conference of Mayors winter meeting Jan. 19 in Washington D.C., he asked his audience to say the name of the sport out loud. “Doesn’t that make everybody smile to say it?”...
First post-Roe March for Life marks shift toward legislative action

First post-Roe March for Life marks shift toward legislative action

by Molly Burke | Jan 22, 2023 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Signaling a monumental change in anti-abortion activism, demonstrators in the 50th annual March for Life followed a new route Friday to mark a new strategy. The march started in 1974, on the first anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, to promote...
Supreme Court mulls questions about students’ accessibility rights

Supreme Court mulls questions about students’ accessibility rights

by Monica Sager and Susanti Sarkar | Jan 21, 2023 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON — Miguel Perez, a 23-year-old deaf student from Michigan, petitioned the Supreme Court today to decide if he was entitled to financial compensation for Perez’s lack of proper accessibility support in his public school. The case brings to light...
More than half nation’s school districts face teacher shortages, data show

More than half nation’s school districts face teacher shortages, data show

by Monica Sager | Jan 14, 2023 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON — More than half of school districts across the country have reported shortages in teachers, according to researchers who attended an event hosted Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education that focused on addressing these shortages. “We know...
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