Photos: President of Kenya visits White House and Biden during state visit

by Karishma Bhuiyan | May 23, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Kenyan President William Ruto is on an official state visit to the United States in an effort to strengthen relations and cooperation between the two countries – the first visit from an African leader since 2008. U.S. President Joe Biden plans to...

House subcommittee hearing will question K-12 leaders about antisemitism in schools

by Jonathan Hoffman | May 7, 2024 | Politics

The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education will hold a hearing Wednesday morning to question several school district leaders on accusations of antisemitism at their schools. The hearing, titled “Confronting Pervasive...

WMATA’s proposed 2025 budget puts some of the DMV’s most vulnerable residents at risk

by Anastasia Mason and Emma McNamee | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Transportation

It’s taken 72 years for Donald Barrett, who has been blind his entire life, to feel “fully and completely independent,” a success he credits to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s MetroAccess system. “It’s the kind of independence that touches your...

After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

by Yiqing Wang | Mar 19, 2024 | Immigration, Politics

CHARLESTON, S.C. – White Converse shoes, green work pants scattered with paint stains, black hoodie and a cowboy hat covered with dozens of rock ‘n’ roll pins. Anderson Lee Smith, a 66-year-old, 6-foot-tall man with his long, gray hair tied back in a low ponytail,...

Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

by Meaghan Downey | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics

For 211 years, only one president had been impeached. But three of the last five presidents have been impeached or faced impeachment inquiries, and just this month a Cabinet secretary was impeached for the first time since 1876. While a powerful constitutional weapon...

Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang and Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...