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Taiwan’s new legislature, possible Trump win cast shadows over U.S.-Taipei ties

Taiwan’s new legislature, possible Trump win cast shadows over U.S.-Taipei ties

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...
UConn faculty question contractor’s role in budget cuts

UConn faculty question contractor’s role in budget cuts

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...
Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

by Meaghan Downey | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics

For 211 years, only one president had been impeached. But three of the last five presidents have been impeached or faced impeachment inquiries, and just this month a Cabinet secretary was impeached for the first time since 1876. While a powerful constitutional weapon...
Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang and Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...
Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

by Juliann Ventura | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert...
Haley looks ahead to Michigan after South Carolina primary on Saturday

Haley looks ahead to Michigan after South Carolina primary on Saturday

by Yiqing Wang | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics

NEWBERRY, South Carolina – Despite losses in early primaries and low poll numbers in her home state, Nikki Haley projected confidence and determination during her “Beast of the Southeast” bus tour in South Carolina, holding four rallies in two days...
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