by Courtney Degen | Oct 28, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Two years of tuition-free community college did not make the cut in the Democrats’ multi-trillion spending bill, leaving many lawmakers and advocates frustrated over what was one of President Joe Biden’s signature campaign promises. “No one got...
by Katherine Huggins, Isabel Miller and Hannah Schoenbaum | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill gained two new senators on Wednesday — furry versions of Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. and Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. The pair are Sen. Thom Tillis’, R-North Carolina, dogs — Theo, a 6.5-month old Bernese Mountain Dog-Poodle mix and Mitch,...
by Cristobella Durrette | Oct 28, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Big Oil executives on Thursday denied under oath any inconsistency between their companies’ public messaging on climate change and their scientists’ internal findings on the role of fossil fuels as a leading cause of global warming. “ExxonMobil has...
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by Zoya Mirza | Oct 28, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Cyber policy experts, tech auditors, and Congressional lawmakers from both sides of the aisle pushed for reforming cyberspace laws such as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and called for transparency on data from social media platforms in a...
by Jay Shakur | Oct 28, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON—Advocates and champions of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) thought it would be a new day under President Biden after his administration introduced his Build Back Better plan in March, proposing $45 billion in funding for HBCUs and...
by Courtney Degen | Oct 27, 2021 | Coronavirus, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said they’re planning to roll out vaccines for young children and increase the availability of at-home COVID-19 tests in a briefing on Wednesday. “The bottom line is that we will be ready immediately following FDA and CDC’s...
