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...
by Lynn Liu | May 25, 2023 | Business & Tech, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress on Wednesday maintained that federal regulators, as well as bank executives, should be held accountable for the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and other two banks. “The executives and the board of Silicon Valley Bank clearly...
by Grant Schwab | May 21, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Few people seem happy with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and her department’s management of energy resources on federal lands and waters. To this day, a particular focus of indignation is her handling of a December lease auction for oil extraction...
by Pingping Yin | May 19, 2023 | Featured, Health, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — The opioid antidote Narcan is now available at six harm-reduction vending machines in neighborhoods across Washington D.C. Installed in April, the vending machines provide free Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and other harm-reduction materials. The vending...