by Julia Shapero | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark for criminal contempt of Congress. However, even as the nine lawmakers on the panel moved forward...
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by Annie Klingenberg | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured, Health, Politics, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. The justices heard from lawyers arguing in favor of a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks. If upheld, the law would overturn 50 years...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Dec 1, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — “I am worried about it…for the obvious reasons,” said John Kerry, the first U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, when asked if he was concerned over whether the international community will be successful in mitigating harmful fossil fuels...
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...
