by Monica Sager | Jan 14, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — More than half of school districts across the country have reported shortages in teachers, according to researchers who attended an event hosted Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education that focused on addressing these shortages. “We know...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Jan 9, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program has hit a speed bump. Part of the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, the program will provide $5 billion over the next five years to help school districts switch to clean energy...
by Kaila Nichols | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Two years after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Christian leaders gathered Friday morning across from the Capitol in remembrance of the day for a sunrise prayer vigil. With the Capitol building in the distance, a group of over 30 people came together, some...
by Grant Schwab | Dec 1, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured
The story of FTX’s collapse is one of intra-office romantic entanglements, a prescient commercial by the company comically predicting its own demise, a stadium naming-rights deal gone sour, and an unintentional tell-all interview. It’s also a story of Congress failing...
by Pingping Yin | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — A nine-year-old Cherokee boy from North Carolina helped light the “People’s Tree” on the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. The 78-foot-tall tree, nicknamed Ruby, came from Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Hundreds...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Nov 25, 2022 | Politics
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Although the predicted red wave did not occur, Republicans still took control of the House by a handful of seats. One of the seats they flipped was Virginia’s 2nd District. Republican State Senator Jen Kiggans (R-Virginia Beach) unseated Rep....
