by Julia Shapero | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is re-evaluating information-sharing agreements with Visa Waiver Program countries to close gaps that might allow people with criminal histories to enter the United States, an administration official told...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld and Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Mar 17, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Ahead of the semi-annual shift of our clocks last Sunday, lawmakers in Washington discussed whether to move forward with a bill to make daylight saving time permanent year-round. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is a co-sponsor of the bill to eliminate the...
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...
