by Meaghan Downey | Feb 17, 2024 | Politics, Topics
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee has traveled back-and-forth from his home state of Michigan to Washington, D.C., for the last 10 years, and he had planned on doing that for another term representing Central Michigan. But after considering the pros and cons, he surprised himself...
by Juliann Ventura | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Layna Martinez, an alum of Biden’s 2020 election campaign, said that she’s having an identity crisis. The 36-year-old considered herself a lifelong Democrat having worked on political campaigns for the party since before she could vote, but now, she...
by Yiqing Wang | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Moris Esmelis Campos-Chaves sat in the plaintiff’s seat in the Supreme Court chamber on a cold, gloomy day in early January. It was a moment the dark skinned, 5-foot-10 gardener had been waiting for for nineteen years. Campos-Chaves entered the U.S....
by Anastasia Mason | Feb 14, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Tensions between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott continued to heighten after a mother and two children drowned in the Rio Grande last month as they tried to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. The drownings occurred near Eagle Pass’...
by Anastasia Mason and Juliann Ventura | Feb 14, 2024 | Politics
MANASSAS, Va. – At their first joint campaign event in the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rallied voters around abortion access and reproductive rights at a northern Virginia university campus, but several Pro-Palestinian...
by Meaghan Downey | Feb 13, 2024 | Politics
NEWBERRY, S.C. – Nikki Haley supporters gathered outside the historic Newberry Opera House on Saturday morning clad in pink feather boas and beaded necklaces and holding “Pick Nikki” signs. There, she made the first of four stops this weekend in her...