by Nicole Norman | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — In their latest attack on Biden’s border policy, congressional Republicans criticized the federal government’s lease of Floyd Bennett Field to house migrants in New York City. Although New York and other states have declared a state of emergency on...
by Phillip Powell | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress and top experts disagreed yesterday about whether the Biden administration has been complying with the Trump-era law to withhold economic assistance from the Palestinian Authority. The 2018 Taylor Force Act ended economic aid for...
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...