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by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Acclaimed poet and writer Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to have her likeness featured on a quarter after the U.S. Mint released the newly minted coin on Jan. 10. The Maya Angelou coin is the first in a series of quarters to be released...
by Courtney Degen and Cristobella Durrette | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday convened a group of doctors and scientists who have been criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation to “get a second opinion” on the health issues facing Americans because of the pandemic. “Until COVID, a...
by Julia Shapero | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Oath Keeper founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and nine other members of the far-right militia group pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Eight...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough tasked his agency’s new Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs with helping the VA take more innovative approaches to serving Native American veterans. The newly created panel, one of 27 VA advisory committees,...
by Annie Klingenberg | Jan 25, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Since 1974, anti-abortion activists have gathered each January in Washington, D.C., to protest the abortion rights granted under Roe v. Wade in January of 1973. With the Supreme Court set to issue a major ruling on abortion rights later this year...
