by Julia Mueller | Dec 2, 2021 | Data Projects, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Nearly three-quarters of United States senators have made Twitter comments or statements on abortion in the 24 hours following Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Dobbs case examines the...
by Hannah Schoenbaum and Isabel Miller | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – After multiple delays, the District began clearing a longstanding homeless encampment in Allen Park Thursday morning, as part of a widely criticized pilot program to place encampment residents into housing accommodations. A large waste handler vehicle,...
by Andrew Marquardt | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, Health, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – As overdose deaths in America continue to reach record highs, lawmakers convened Thursday to discuss how best to tackle the issue at one of its most dangerous sources: the alarming influx of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances infiltrating the...
by Julia Mueller | Dec 2, 2021 | Living
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a bipartisan group of other California lawmakers on Wednesday evening gathered on the front lawn to light this year’s Capitol Christmas tree, an 84-foot white fir from Six Rivers National Forest in the Golden State. “In...
by Allison Novelo | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, Health, Living, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — The long-held precedent of upholding abortion rights, as established in Roe v. Wade, appeared more vulnerable following oral arguments on Wednesday over the legality of Mississippi’s near total ban on the procedure. State Solicitor General Scott Stewart...
by Julia Shapero | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark for criminal contempt of Congress. However, even as the nine lawmakers on the panel moved forward...