by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists placed thousands of pairs of flip flops on the National Mall last weekend to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has resulted in more than 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the country. Demonstrators also lobbied for...
by Julia Shapero | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Federal judges pushed former President Donald Trump’s and the government’s lawyers to suggest a means of balancing competing demands of executive privilege between the current and former presidents at a hearing on Tuesday. “Who decides when it’s in...
by Courtney Degen | Nov 30, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As colleges and universities serve increasingly diverse student bodies, it is imperative that their campuses foster open discussion and civic debate, university presidents, faculty and civic leaders said at a webinar on Tuesday. In November of 2020, the...
by Isabel Miller | Nov 23, 2021 | Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, President Biden on Tuesday announced he will release 50 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. After COVID impacted travel last year, record numbers of Americans are taking planes, trains and...
by Katherine Huggins | Nov 18, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured
Shares of Sweetgreen surged 86% in its market debut on Thursday, following an upsized IPO that priced the salad chain’s shares at $28. Sweetgreen planned to sell 12.5 million shares priced at $23-$25, according to a Tuesday SEC filing. But the company said in a...
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by Julia Mueller | Nov 18, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security
WASHINGTON — The United States needs a strategy for upcoming elections at several key international organizations, lawmakers said Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on U.S. leadership in the United Nations. The last U.S. administration...
