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...
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...
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...
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...
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...