by Samone Blair | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The Senate Committee on Armed Services canceled a nomination hearing Thursday morning for Anthony J. Tata to be the undersecretary of defense for policy at the Pentagon after outrage over Tata’s alleged racism. A group of over 50 civil rights, faith, education and...
by Hannah Farrow | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Federal officials Wednesday defended the delay in releasing $300 million on fisheries assistance funding, including $23.4 million for Florida, saying the pandemic has set them behind in analyzing data to determine how much each fishery is due. Senators on the...
by Henry Ren and Xurui Tan | Jul 30, 2020 | Education, Featured
Raven Liu always thought that she had a chance, however slim it was, to travel from Beijing to the University of Southern California to attend her first semester in person, even during a pandemic. “It’s meaningless to learn online because I study film production,” the...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 29, 2020 | Environment, Featured
Removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a critical step in tamping down global temperature rise and meeting the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal, energy experts told Congress on Tuesday. Experts from the U.S. Department of Energy,...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured, Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a new food safety initiative —called the New Era of Smarter Food Safety — that aims to use technology to better trace foodborne illness. “The most encouraging aspect of this is that FDA really has innovative and...
by Hannah Farrow | Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Featured
How to teach gender identity in schools — if at all — remains a conversation among community members and district administrators across the country. In Pasco County, an organization called Protect Pasco Children claims parents’ rights and family values are being...
