![Senate Committee Witness: Robocall scams can result in tragedy]()
by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — Robocalls are not just a nuisance, they can have devastating consequences. Unfortunately, Angela Stancik of Houston knows that reality far too well. “Her golden years and the last chapter of her life was taken from her,” Stancik said of her...
by Lu Zhao | Jul 11, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON — Most transgender and non-binary individuals who experience homelessness nationally were unsheltered last year, a much higher rate than homeless people who identify with their birth gender, according to a recent report from the National Alliance to...
by Priscilla Zhu and Lu Zhao | Jul 4, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Competitive eater Molly Schuyler finished 32 burgers within 10 minutes in the 10th Annual Z Burger Eating Championship, breaking the 27-burger record she set last year and taking the champion title for the fifth time. The event Wednesday at the...
![D.C sways to the beats at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2019]()
by Sruthi Darbhamulla | Jul 1, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON — Every year the National Mall in Washington, D.C. comes alive during the summer for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, touted as an ‘international exposition of living cultural heritage’ organized by the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife...
by Eric Frazier | May 27, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON–Nothing indicates the start of summer like Memorial Day weekend. Organizers in Washington D.C. held a parade to celebrate the occasion and to remember fallen veterans. Medill News Service reporter Eric Frazier has more from the festivities....
by Dwight A. Weingarten | May 24, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON — Over fifty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought to mobilize the country to address the issue of poverty, activists in D.C. are picking up the mantle and looking to address issues that effect the poor in D.C. The D.C. Poor People’s...
