Rights group: China imprisons more than 449,000 Uyghurs in Xinjiang

by Karishma Bhuiyan and Andrew Fang | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured, National Security, Topics

WASHINGTON — As Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his trip to China, a human rights group released a report calculating that China currently imprisons more than 449,000 Uyghurs in Xinjiang, about one in 17. According to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a...

Nonprofit organizations become a helpful resource in the naturalization process

by Anastasia Mason and Yiqing Wang | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – Every week in downtown D.C., near the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, hundreds of aspiring new Americans from 100 different countries navigate past groups of tourists and students on field trips to attend in-depth civics...

Washington Metro’s ‘Fleet of the Future’ Expo showcases new train cars

by Esther Frances | Apr 2, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology, Transportation

WASHINGTON — The Washington Area Metro Transit Authority showcased their new 8000-series train and zero-emissions bus at the Fleet of the Future Expo on the National Mall. Attendees can walk through and explore the train and bus model, which highlight new...

WMATA’s proposed 2025 budget puts some of the DMV’s most vulnerable residents at risk

by Anastasia Mason and Emma McNamee | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Transportation

It’s taken 72 years for Donald Barrett, who has been blind his entire life, to feel “fully and completely independent,” a success he credits to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s MetroAccess system. “It’s the kind of independence that touches your...

After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

by Yiqing Wang | Mar 19, 2024 | Immigration, Politics

CHARLESTON, S.C. – White Converse shoes, green work pants scattered with paint stains, black hoodie and a cowboy hat covered with dozens of rock ‘n’ roll pins. Anderson Lee Smith, a 66-year-old, 6-foot-tall man with his long, gray hair tied back in a low ponytail,...

Sen. Hawley champions for St. Louis constituents despite controversial past

by Esther Frances | Mar 13, 2024 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON – After unsuccessful efforts to include Missouri residents in a decades-old law that compensates victims of radiation from nuclear weapons development, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley succeeded last week in getting the Senate to pass an expansion.  The Senate...