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by Julia Mueller | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic lawmakers found a rare moment of agreement on Tuesday when discussing the need to expand ethics rules for the federal judiciary. The subcommittee met to discuss what Chairman Hank Johnson, D-Ga., called the “disturbing facts” of...
by Cristobella Durrette | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Department of Defense must develop a more robust workforce education system and bolster talent recruitment efforts for technically skilled candidates in order to address workforce gaps, experts told lawmakers on Tuesday. “We have a jobs mismatch,”...
by Andrew Marquardt | Oct 26, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – Despite deploying similar algorithmic tools to advertise and accelerate growth to massive numbers of users – includings millions of teenagers – social media sites like Snapchat and TikTok have largely evaded the public and Congressional eye as of late....
by Catherine Buchaniec | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials warned lawmakers Tuesday that terrorist groups in Afghanistan could develop the capability to launch international attacks within a six to 12-month timeframe. “We’re actually fairly certain that they have the intention to do so,” Colin...
by Julia Shapero | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to cite former Trump aide Steve Bannon for criminal contempt after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The vote fell largely along party lines, with all 220 Democrats voting in favor of...
![Victims of U.S. Nuclear Tests on Marshall Islands Demand Action Six Decades Later]()
by Andrew Marquardt | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Most Americans learn briefly about the Marshall Islands in a high school history class. Resting five thousand miles west of California in the heart of the central Pacific, the group of islands played a small but crucial role in the Cold War arms race...
