by Amy L. Wong | Aug 5, 2026 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Justice Amy Coney Barrett told members of Congress that after the Dobbs decision in 2022 restricting abortion access, her security detail sent her home with a bulletproof vest. Her 12-year-old son asked her about it. “I didn’t know how to respond because...
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by Nicole Cheah | Jun 28, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON – Before U.S. President Donald Trump flew to Beijing last month, Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas hoped the summit would bring a breakthrough for her imprisoned sister, who has been detained in a Chinese prison for nearly eight years. Both the Senate and House...
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by Reece Dower | Jun 10, 2026 | Featured, Military, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s top officials conducted far fewer press briefings and interviews during a period of major combat operations than the department has in decades, a Medill News Service review of five previous U.S. military flashpoints showed. Instead,...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk and Jamie Gareh | Jun 4, 2026 | Topics
WASHINGTON, June 3 — As the Justice Department increases efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their U.S. citizenship, U.S. senators on Wednesday debated whether such efforts violate the Constitution. Republicans argued during a Judiciary Subcommittee...
by Olivia Ardito | May 28, 2026 | Politics, Social Justice, Topics
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
by Matthew Junkroski | May 28, 2026 | Education, Featured, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — Of the five minutes Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla, had to question Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon about the 2027 Department of Education budget, he spent four of them expressing his concerns about how a new rule creating a federal cap on student...
