by Meggie Morris and Siri Bulusu | May 9, 2016 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON — Amid growing concerns about veteran health issues and increased active-duty deployments to places like Syria and Iraq, Jon Stewart and several of his former Daily Show sidekicks performed at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday night to kick off Military...
by Brooke Rayford | May 5, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers special ceremonies for families wishing to celebrate the first day as a United States citizen of one of their own. For many taking the Oath of Allegiance is a capstone to day they will remember...
by Jasmine Cen | May 5, 2016 | Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — An abandoned trolley tunnel in Dupont Circle has gotten a makeover. Since April, hundreds of volunteers have been working on building a real-life Lego world. Gluing plastic balls together to form a cube, two artists from design studio Hou De Sousa...
by Jasmine Cen and Yunfei Zhao | May 5, 2016 | Politics
Medill News Recap is a weekly compilation of stories by multimedia and print reporters in the Washington bureau. In this week’s show: Teacher advocates for educational equity, honored at the White House. Cinco de Mayo: An American holiday. Formerly detained mothers...
by Jasmine Cen | May 5, 2016 | Living, Topics
Hidden in a busy district in Washington D.C., the trolley tunnel has had few visitors in the last 50 years. The tunnel was built in 1949. As the number of riders declined, the service stopped in 1962. It was turned into a food court in 1995 but failed shortly after it...
by Kierra Gray | May 5, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON –Mothers and children fleeing violence and murder in Central America should be treated as refugees and not held in prison-like detention centers, protesters said recently as they laid out Mother’s Day cards to first lady Michelle Obama in front of the White...
