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Small Maryland Town Grapples With Immigration Views After Murder Conviction

by Ashley N. Soriano | May 1, 2025 | Immigration

BEL AIR, Maryland – Locals described the town of Bel Air, Maryland, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore, as community-oriented and safe, at least before Rachel Morin’s murder. Neighbors flock to Ma and Pa Heritage Trail to hike, the name itself symbolizing the...
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths

by Ismael M. Belkoura | May 1, 2025 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned. The elimination of the National Institutes of Health’s role in...
First-gen Americans back Trump immigration policies at White House Egg Roll

First-gen Americans back Trump immigration policies at White House Egg Roll

by Ashley N. Soriano | May 1, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of people, including some first-generation Americans, attended the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, an event geared toward children and family-friendly events. But not everyone celebrated the holiday by racing to...
As markup session on Antisemitism Awareness Act fails, debate on freedom of speech spurs

As markup session on Antisemitism Awareness Act fails, debate on freedom of speech spurs

by Leonardo Pini | May 1, 2025 | Education, Topics

WASHINGTON – Some Senate Democrats voiced concerns this week about damage to free speech from a new law that would define antisemitism, however, several Democrats co-sponsored  the bill with most Republicans. “I worry that this bill is unconstitutional and will...
Advocates, professors, and diplomats tried to save Sub-Saharan Africa’s special trade relationship with the U.S

Advocates, professors, and diplomats tried to save Sub-Saharan Africa’s special trade relationship with the U.S

by Athan Yanos | Apr 24, 2025 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON –– Facing expiration of a law that provided beneficial markets for 2,000 products from African partners for 25 years, advocates, professors, diplomats and members of the US government strategize on ways to preserve economic cooperation with the US despite...
Governmental healthcare task force challenged in front of Supreme Court

Governmental healthcare task force challenged in front of Supreme Court

by Ismael M. Belkoura | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – At the Supreme Court this week, a Texas corporation argued that the secretary of Health and Human Services did not have the authority to convene a health task force, but justices seemed skeptical. “It’s unlikely that Congress was just throwing it out...
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