by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 10, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — First Lady Jill Biden honored children in military and veteran care-giving families as part of her Joining Forces initiative at a White House event ahead of Veterans Day. Supporting these kids who are “growing up in the shadow of more than 20 years of...
by Julia Shapero | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled on Tuesday night that former President Donald Trump cannot block the release of certain presidential records relating to the Jan. 6 insurrection. “[Attorneys for the National Archives and House select Jan. 6 committee] contend that...
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by Andrew Marquardt | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was spared from a $465 million judgment on Tuesday for its purported role in facilitating Oklahoma’s ongoing, lethal opioid epidemic. The state’s Supreme Court struck down a lower court’s 2019 decision, which held the...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely to rule narrowly in a lawsuit challenging the FBI’s surveillance of mosques during oral arguments on Monday. The case, Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, stems from an FBI investigation from 2006 and 2007 called...
by Julia Mueller | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether Puerto Rico residents can qualify for a federal benefit program. In 2012, Jose Luis Vaello-Madero left work because of serious illness and began receiving Supplemental Security Income, a federal...
by Allison Novelo | Nov 4, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When the pandemic struck and schools closed, women stepped into the full-time role of both breadwinner and caregiver. Unable to juggle it all, many were pushed out of their jobs, and so began the nation’s first female recession. “Women spent 30% more of...
