by Soram Cheon | Oct 10, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lack of leadership the Trump administration to solve climate change issues has resulted in significant inequality to vulnerable countries since the poor are suffering the most from this situation, experts said Wednesday. “We are seeing a great...
by Alec Bose | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The public health effects on communities that have witnessed mass shootings, murders, child abuse and other violence need more attention, experts said Thursday. “It’s not just those who died in mass shootings, it’s not even those who are involved in...
by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the U.S. endorses Colombian President Ivan Duque’s plan to reduce that country’s cocaine production by 50 percent by 2023. In June 2018, President Donald Trump told reporters that “more drugs are coming...
by Silvia Martelli | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — Implementing universal health care, often called Medicare for all, would reduce competition and innovation in the health care industry and create longer waiting times for services, some health care policy experts said Wednesday. Speaking at the...
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by Brian Johnson | Oct 8, 2019 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The District of Columbia should no longer have a “half-legal” marijuana law that allows possession but not dispensaries, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and cannabis activists said Tuesday while demonstrating outside the Capitol. Holding up a giant...
by Chiara Vercellone | Oct 8, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Tuesday was asked to expand the definition of sex discrimination in employment under the Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation. Before the session started, long lines had formed outside the court to hear the oral arguments in...
