by Courtney Degen | Feb 9, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Not even a deployment to the Middle East could have prepared 1st Lt. Nikki Flynn of the Minnesota National Guard for her latest mission: assisting at a nursing home as the COVID-19 pandemic relentlessly continues to wear down medical staffs. Working as a...
by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 9, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Climate change experts and advocates told a House committee Tuesday that sustainability pledges made by Big Oil companies mask the fact that their continued oil production means climate goals laid out in the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved....
by Catherine Buchaniec | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics
A Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program to provide tuition and housing assistance to eligible veterans lacks measurable objectives, according to a preliminary report from the Government Accountability Office released Wednesday. The program, Veterans Employment...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
Atia Iqbal, an attorney in Afghanistan, arrived in Spokane in 2015. Before coming to the U.S., her husband taught inmates how to sew at a jail belonging to the U.S. military at Bagram base in Afghanistan, she said. At one point, most of the people in the jail were...
by Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Feb 8, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month. The IEA, which publishes a series...
by Annie Klingenberg | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Health
United States senators and LGBTQ+ advocates are calling on on the FDA to remove restrictions that add obstacles for blood donations from men who have sex with men, as the American Red Cross deals with a blood shortage it called the worst in more than a decade.Since...
