by Christina van Waasbergen | Jan 9, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program has hit a speed bump. Part of the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, the program will provide $5 billion over the next five years to help school districts switch to clean energy...
by Kaila Nichols | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Two years after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Christian leaders gathered Friday morning across from the Capitol in remembrance of the day for a sunrise prayer vigil. With the Capitol building in the distance, a group of over 30 people came together, some...
by Grant Schwab | Dec 1, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured
The story of FTX’s collapse is one of intra-office romantic entanglements, a prescient commercial by the company comically predicting its own demise, a stadium naming-rights deal gone sour, and an unintentional tell-all interview. It’s also a story of Congress failing...
by Pingping Yin | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — A nine-year-old Cherokee boy from North Carolina helped light the “People’s Tree” on the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. The 78-foot-tall tree, nicknamed Ruby, came from Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Hundreds...
by Joslyn Richardson | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured, Living
HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Columbia, Maryland had its 8th annual Veteran’s Day Parade near Lake Kittamaqundi. Active and retired military veterans, as well as their families, marched in the parade and then assembled for a ceremony honoring all military members...
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by Pingping Yin | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Health, Health
WASHINGTON– The number of women who died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, known as maternal death, spiked during the pandemic, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. It shows that COVID-19 was a contributing...
