by Catherine Buchaniec | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
Schools nationwide have grappled with the downsides of online education during the pandemic, especially reduced in person interactions. At National Defense University, the stakes of remote learning go beyond the headaches of exchanging classrooms for Zoom breakout...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two days after the 2020 presidential election, an anonymous online message alleged the U.S. Postal Service in Wisconsin had backdated ballot postmarks to mess with election results — a claim that was quickly debunked by fact-checkers and the USPS...
by Katherine Huggins | Feb 16, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies say they’re hoping to improve drug development and approval for rare diseases, the majority of which lack FDA-approved treatments. There are over 7,000 rare diseases in the U.S. and only...
by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured
More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
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by Katherine Huggins | Feb 15, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Easing the national shortage of health care workers will require relief for student loans, more money for research and training, and eliminating COVID vaccine mandates, experts recently told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. “There is no doubt that during the pandemic,...
by Quinn Clark | Feb 11, 2022 | Education, Featured
Three months ago, Josiah Kemp, a transgender teenager living in Hunterdon County, N.J., made the decision to leave his home church. Kemp didn’t leave Christianity, he said, but he needed to stop attending services at a church that was openly opposed to LGBTQ...
