by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Sen. Kamala Harris demanded Thursday that the head of Customs and Border Protection explain the rationale behind his agency’s deployment of border agents to anti-police brutality protests and marches across the country. “Given your mission to focus on our borders, why...
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by Amy Sokolow | Jun 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The Trump administration is “more terrified of transparency and accountability” than the COVID-19 pandemic that has created a crisis in America’s nursing homes, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee said Thursday as doctors, nurses and family...
by Jack Kelly | Jun 15, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden may be leading Republican President Donald Trump in many recent polls, but by one other common gauge of political support — small-dollar donations — Trump has so far maintained an edge. Small-dollar...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
Sophia Horigan was supposed to study gypsy moths in a southwestern Michigan forest this spring and summer. Instead, the University of Chicago PhD student is studying in her apartment, where she rotates between a wooden table and a grey armchair. With her field...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
Coronavirus relief money helped Spokane Falls Community College students Nakita Tibbits and Kevin Robinson pay their rent. But the presidents of community colleges in Spokane said while that assistance was important, there were many students in need who were left out....
by Jack Kelly | Jun 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Affordable-housing activists warned lawmakers Wednesday of a looming rent crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and called on Congress to act swiftly to provide billions of dollars to help millions of Americans. The activists told the House Financial Services...
