by Arnab Mondal | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The Air Force does not have enough pilots and operators to meet its staffing targets for unmanned aircrafts, causing mental and physical health problems for existing personnel, a Government Accountability Office report said. Since 9/11, there has been a...
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by Shirin Ali | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Several Democratic senators, including former presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, grilled Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan on reports that unaccompanied migrant children are not being appropriately screened to determine if they are...
by Nicole Girten | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
U.S. Rep. Ross Spano emphasized holding China accountable for the spread of COVID-19 during a telephone town hall Thursday night. “We’ve had 127,000 folks in our nation that now have died,” Spano said in response to a caller from Lakeland. “In large part it’s a result...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Sen. Kamala Harris demanded Thursday that the head of Customs and Border Protection explain the rationale behind his agency’s deployment of border agents to anti-police brutality protests and marches across the country. “Given your mission to focus on our borders, why...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
Sophia Horigan was supposed to study gypsy moths in a southwestern Michigan forest this spring and summer. Instead, the University of Chicago PhD student is studying in her apartment, where she rotates between a wooden table and a grey armchair. With her field...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
Coronavirus relief money helped Spokane Falls Community College students Nakita Tibbits and Kevin Robinson pay their rent. But the presidents of community colleges in Spokane said while that assistance was important, there were many students in need who were left out....
