by Allison Novelo | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — In light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, State Department leaders said Tuesday that disinformation plays a large role in the rise of authoritarian governments and called for more investment to help local and independent media around the world....
by Andrew Marquardt | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal for help to the U.S. Congress, showing a graphic video of obliterated buildings and dead civilians, members of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard from experts who...
by Jordan Anderson | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — As a child, Cathy Chavers, a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, never knew her family suffered in U.S. boarding schools. She only learned after her grandmother’s death that she was sent to Minnesota’s Vermilion Lake Indian...
by Julia Shapero | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — After allegations that former President Donald Trump destroyed or mishandled some of his presidential documents, experts told a Senate committee Tuesday that Congress should make it easier for top government officials to comply with the Presidential...
by Julia Shapero | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to walk away from negotiations with Iran over a nuclear deal, emphasizing that it would help Russian President Vladimir Putin by providing “a massive subsidy” to Russia as his military...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 15, 2022 | National Security
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Name one U.S. military conflict after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The world stood still in the hours following...
