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by Isabel Miller and Cristobella Durrette | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MILWAUKEE — Duane “Dodge” Waubanascum, once an amateur boxer from the Oneida Nation who won two Golden Glove titles in the 1970s, stands in the back of a room watching a group of fellow Native American Elders participate in a boxing class. “If you...
by Julia Mueller | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains —...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Environmental activist and singer-songwriter Carole King criticized the U.S. Forest Service’s use of logging as a way to combat wildfires at a House hearing Wednesday, saying that logging operations contribute to carbon emissions. “I...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Brunswick, called on the Senate this week to pass comprehensive legislation expanding health care access for U.S. service members and veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while deployed at overseas military bases....
by Katherine Huggins | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Ron Wyden pulled a Humira “pen” out of his shirt pocket and held it up. “As of 2020, the price per pen in Quebec, Canada was $563,” he said about the popular treatment for arthritis and other conditions. “List price in the U.S. was...
by Julia Shapero | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is re-evaluating information-sharing agreements with Visa Waiver Program countries to close gaps that might allow people with criminal histories to enter the United States, an administration official told...
