by Lu Zhao | Aug 12, 2019 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – Whistleblowers who have helped the federal government collect billions of dollars in unpaid taxes received a record high total in reward money last year – about $312 million. The 10-fold increase from the previous year was the result of a law passed...
by Apoorva Mittal | Aug 8, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Chelsea Russ’ search for an undergraduate college during her transition from serving as an electronics technician in the Navy to the reserves in 2016 included researching university websites, making long lists of options and visiting 20 schools. She...
by Matt Reynolds | Aug 8, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – It’s the germ of an idea that seems ready-made for internet conspiracists: Is Lyme disease the result of a shadowy bioweapons program that unleashed pathogen-infected ticks on the American public? Scientists think not. But a recent bill passed by...
by Josephine Chu | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured, Politics
DETROIT — Masses march during the Green New Deal rally in Detroit before the start of the Democratic Debate at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Published in conjunction...
by Josephine Chu | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
DETROIT — On the second day of the Detroit Democratic debates, Movimiento Cosecha held a rally for immigrant rights. Protesters sat in the street and refused to move, blocking the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Detroit police arrested 21 protesters. Published in...
by Yuru (Priscilla) Zhu | Aug 6, 2019 | Demographics, Featured
WASHINGTON — Several proposals in Congress are competing to address the backlog of more than 900,000 approved employment-based green card applications by changing the way they are distributed. The House has passed and sent to the Senate a measure that would end...
