by Ariana Puzzo | Jul 23, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Colleges do not adequately meet the needs of marginalized students, such as LGBTQ people or low-income students, but renewing the higher education law could address inequity by tackling student debt, assessing workplace success and increasing services to...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 19, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic presidential candidate from Minnesota, presented her plan for the first 100 days in office, at the National Press Club on Tuesday. Her first step would include signing back into the International Climate Change...
by Josephine Chu | Jul 19, 2019 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon for the first time. 50 years later, the world looks back on the first moon landing as a glorious feat and a testament to what we are capable of as a country. But after all this time, why...
by Kimberly Jin | Jul 19, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON – Thirty-seven years ago, Congress decided the federal government should be responsible for disposing of the waste from the nation’s nuclear power plant. But the waste still is being stored at the plants today. Several leading senators want the federal...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 19, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — When she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security clearance, to waiting tables. “It was frustrating. I had a very...
by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a House committee Thursday “incendiary and overwrought attacks on the men and women securing our border” are “damaging,” saying border agents are dealing with an “unprecedented...