by Anastasia Mason and Yiqing Wang | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Every week in downtown D.C., near the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, hundreds of aspiring new Americans from 100 different countries navigate past groups of tourists and students on field trips to attend in-depth civics...
by Esther Frances | Apr 2, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology, Transportation
WASHINGTON — The Washington Area Metro Transit Authority showcased their new 8000-series train and zero-emissions bus at the Fleet of the Future Expo on the National Mall. Attendees can walk through and explore the train and bus model, which highlight new...
by Anastasia Mason and Emma McNamee | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Transportation
It’s taken 72 years for Donald Barrett, who has been blind his entire life, to feel “fully and completely independent,” a success he credits to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s MetroAccess system. “It’s the kind of independence that touches your...
by Esther Frances | Mar 13, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – After unsuccessful efforts to include Missouri residents in a decades-old law that compensates victims of radiation from nuclear weapons development, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley succeeded last week in getting the Senate to pass an expansion. The Senate...
by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Taiwan’s choice of president in the January elections sent a strong message that the island nation wants to maintain its autonomy from China, but voters also sent an appeasing signal to China by denying the president-elect’s party a...
by Juliann Ventura | Mar 12, 2024 | Education, Featured
Several UConn faculty members are questioning the role of an outside consulting firm in the university’s cost-cutting decisions, and the possible elimination of academic programs and jobs. Huron Consulting, a global professional services firm, has had contracts with...