by Hannah Farrow | Aug 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
The second of two virtual hearings occurred last Thursday morning to discuss how Mexican trade laws impact southeastern farmers. With opening remarks from Sonny Perdue, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, eight farmers testified how they’ve been harmed over the years....
by Anabel Mendoza | Aug 25, 2020 | Education, Featured
As Frederick County public schools begin remote learning amid concerns about COVID-19, homeless and other vulnerable students face a heightened set of challenges. Late last month, the Board of Education announced that the county’s public schools will move to a full...
by Amy Sokolow | Aug 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Army veteran Toni Hackney has always wanted a family, but as a single woman with endometriosis, she knew she would need fertility assistance. A year after she sought approval from the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover the cost of in-vitro...
by Hannah Farrow | Aug 21, 2020 | Featured, Politics
As schools transitioned to online learning because of the pandemic, nationwide calls to child abuse hotlines went way down. Experts say that’s because teachers, who are mandated by the state to report abuse, can’t gather the full picture over virtual environments. Now...
by Samone Blair | Aug 21, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Advocacy groups have accused U.S. immigration officials of providing pork and rancid halal meals to Muslim detainees at a Miami processing center. Attorneys from three organizations — Muslim Advocates, Americans for Immigrant Justice and Atlanta-based law firm...
by Xurui Tan | Aug 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The National Institutes of Health wants to utilize artificial intelligence technology to better combat COVID-19 and has offered a grant to establish a resource center for diagnosis and treatment. However, a spokesperson from the National Institute of Biomedical...
