by Christina van Waasbergen | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured, Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — For years, the only way doctors like family physician Dr. Graham Chelius could offer their patients abortion pills was by giving them the medication in their offices, a restriction put in place by the Food and Drug Administration. Chelius wasn’t able to...
by Alexa Erbach | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — Mifepristone, the most widely used drug for medication abortion, made headlines in April when a federal district judge in Texas called the FDA’s approval of the drug fundamentally flawed. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA was appealed...
![Young lawmakers rally for gun reform]()
by Alexa Erbach | May 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Some of the nation’s youngest lawmakers joined forces on Wednesday to inspire young voters and rally for gun reform. The event, “On the Frontlines of Democracy: Young and Fed Up,” included passionate speeches from Reps. Maxwell...
![Supreme Court hears arguments in First Amendment case over ‘true threats’]()
by Alexa Erbach | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday tackled the question of what types of statements should be considered “true threats.” The Justices heard oral arguments in Counterman v. Colorado, which examines whether the government must show that a speaker...
by Alexa Erbach | Apr 13, 2023 | Featured, Politics
An update to this article was made on April 13, 2022: WASHINGTON – On Wednesday night, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided to allow restricted access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Two of the major restrictions in the court’s decision include denying access...
by Emma Ricketts | Mar 16, 2023 | Politics
Standing before a crowd of more than 2,000 people shortly before her election as Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern declared that climate change was her “generation’s nuclear free moment.” Referring to New Zealand’s decision in the 1980s to eschew atomic energy...
