by Anastasia Mason and Emma McNamee | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Transportation
It’s taken 72 years for Donald Barrett, who has been blind his entire life, to feel “fully and completely independent,” a success he credits to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s MetroAccess system. “It’s the kind of independence that touches your...
by Yiqing Wang | Mar 19, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
CHARLESTON, S.C. – White Converse shoes, green work pants scattered with paint stains, black hoodie and a cowboy hat covered with dozens of rock ‘n’ roll pins. Anderson Lee Smith, a 66-year-old, 6-foot-tall man with his long, gray hair tied back in a low ponytail,...
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by Esther Frances | Mar 13, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – After unsuccessful efforts to include Missouri residents in a decades-old law that compensates victims of radiation from nuclear weapons development, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley succeeded last week in getting the Senate to pass an expansion. The Senate...
by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Taiwan’s choice of president in the January elections sent a strong message that the island nation wants to maintain its autonomy from China, but voters also sent an appeasing signal to China by denying the president-elect’s party a...
by Juliann Ventura | Mar 12, 2024 | Education, Featured
Several UConn faculty members are questioning the role of an outside consulting firm in the university’s cost-cutting decisions, and the possible elimination of academic programs and jobs. Huron Consulting, a global professional services firm, has had contracts with...
by Meaghan Downey | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics
For 211 years, only one president had been impeached. But three of the last five presidents have been impeached or faced impeachment inquiries, and just this month a Cabinet secretary was impeached for the first time since 1876. While a powerful constitutional weapon...
