by Beverly Banks | Mar 6, 2019 | Immigration, Topics
PARIS — When he lived outside a metro station in Paris, Shikhali Mirzai received a sleeping bag, tent, and clothes from a student group dedicated to aiding refugees in the city. The kind gesture stayed with the then-22-year-old, who now helps the group...
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by Brock Hall | Mar 6, 2019 | Science + Technology
Democrats unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reinstitute net neutrality rules that were scrapped in 2017 by the Trump administration. The bill, called the “Save the Internet Act,” would bring back rules that prevented internet providers from slowing down or blocking...
by Beverly Banks | Mar 5, 2019 | Health, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Younger generations of pro and anti-abortion advocates are digging in their heels and preparing for a long, drawn-out legal battle as President Trump alters access to reproductive care and courts across the country continue to rule on abortion. This past...
by Beverly Banks | Mar 5, 2019 | Health, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — With the future of abortion rights on the verge of changing like no time since before Roe v. Wade, advocates are presenting new arguments to plead their cases. Both sides have amped up messaging in an effort to intertwine human rights and abortion since...
by Medill News Service | Mar 1, 2019 | Environment, Featured, Topics
Last week, a video of children pleading with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Cal., to back the Green New Deal resolution went viral on Twitter. The video, which now has about 10 million views, was posted by the Sunrise Movement, an environmental activist organization...
by Bryan Wood | Feb 28, 2019 | Topics
WASHINGTON — One woman in Washington, D.C. believes that she can end the Cameroon crisis and she’ll do it almost single-handedly. “All I need,” she says, “is more visibility.” Sylvie Bello moved from Cameroon to New Jersey with her dad in 1998. Although she’s...
