by Silvia Martelli | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Over the past four years, a United Nations agency has successfully trained more than 1,800 African lawyers, prosecutors and judges to protect and uphold freedom of the press in courts across the African continent. In 2016, the United Nations...
by Silvia Martelli | Mar 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Childhood obesity may increase if the US Department of Agriculture’s proposed changes to school meal standards become law, reversing progress made by the Obama administration, experts say. New rules proposed in January would reduce the vegetables and...
by Soram Cheon | Mar 20, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics
Bernie Sanders’ presidency has some people worried. Four democratic party candidates – Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren – have dropped out of the democratic race for president. Yet none of them have endorsed Bernie Sanders....
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by Sara Wilson | Mar 11, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON—A small group of community activists sang, spoke, and grieved together on Monday night near the busy intersection of 14th Street and Park Road in Columbia Heights, four days after the controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods. As people walked by, on their...
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by Chiara Vercellone and Sara Wilson | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
1. The House is voting under suspension of the rules Monday on the Divided Families Reunification Act (H.R. 1771), which would support Korean Americans in their effort to reunite with relatives in North Korea. Nearly 100,000 Korean Americans have been separated from...
by Brian Johnson | Mar 7, 2020 | Campaign2020, Politics
Despite a statewide referendum in 2018 that approved a constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to be shown by voters at polling places and a bill approved by the legislature, North Carolina went to the polls on Super Tuesday without a requirement in place. And...
