Medill News Service
  • Home
  • News
    • Business & Tech
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Immigration
    • National Security
    • Politics
    • Living
    • Sports
  • Special Reports
    • SOS for Democracy
    • Urban Indian Healthcare
    • Climate Change and the Ecocide Campaign
    • Nonvoters 2020
    • Special Reports
    • Campaign 2020
    • Coronavirus
    • GITMO
    • Inauguration
    • Minor League Baseball
  • Podcasts
    • Foreign Policy Weekly
    • Week in Congress
    • Mideast Minute
  • Reporters
  • About
  • Events at Medill DC
Select Page
Job Cuts, Climate Threats, and the Power of Now: Black Mayors Seek Strength in Solidarity

Job Cuts, Climate Threats, and the Power of Now: Black Mayors Seek Strength in Solidarity

by Jordan Owens | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Black mayors from across the country gathered in the nation’s capital for the annual African American Mayors Association Conference last week and strategized ways to govern their cities despite ongoing federal job cuts and recent actions coming from the...
Rubio Unveils Sweeping State Department Shake-Up to Reduce and Reorganize Agency

Rubio Unveils Sweeping State Department Shake-Up to Reduce and Reorganize Agency

by Matthew Shea | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled the start of a major reorganization on Tuesday to drastically reduce the size and scope of the State Department. The plan reflected the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to cut back the federal government. The...
DC community rallies against Trump administration’s firing of federal workers

DC community rallies against Trump administration’s firing of federal workers

by Erin Drumm | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON—Paul Osadebe still holds his job as a lawyer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Still, with so many of his coworkers having lost their jobs, he says it is endangering the mission of providing housing and revitalizing...
VA Announces Record Efficiency Amid Potential Staffing Cuts

VA Announces Record Efficiency Amid Potential Staffing Cuts

by Ismael M. Belkoura | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – At a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs has been processing record levels of disability claims, Democrats warned last week that the agency’s productivity will not last under the deep cuts ordered by President Donald Trump. The 2022 PACT Act...
Trump administration says killings in Sudan are genocide

Trump administration says killings in Sudan are genocide

by Khaleel Rahman | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON, April 16 — As the death toll continues to mount in Sudan, the Trump administration on Wednesday for the first time characterized the atrocities in that North African country as genocide, reaffirming a designation made by the former Biden...
PHOTOS: Recap of The 2024 Republican National Convention

PHOTOS: Recap of The 2024 Republican National Convention

by Karishma Bhuiyan, Sylvie Kirsch and Noah Poser | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured, Politics

MILWAUKEE — The 2024 Republican National Convention ran from July 15 through July 18 at the Fiserv Forum, where former president Donald Trump officially accepted the party’s nomination for president. Alongside his own nomination, he announced Sen. JD...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »

Medill Today | April 9, 2026

Medill on Twitter

Tweets by Medill News

Medill School of Journalism

Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
www.medill.northwestern.edu

Northwestern University

www.northwestern.edu

Search Stories

Latest Stories

  • Federal health advisors back continued ambulance cost data collection April 9, 2026
  • Business leaders have a foreboding message to workers: AI will keep growing. Workers fear increasing impact on their livelihoods. April 9, 2026
  • Republican wins GA-14 special election, but Democrats see their biggest swing since 2024 elections April 9, 2026

About Medill Washington

The stories here were reported, written and produced by Northwestern University graduate journalism students in the Washington program of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications . Most also were published or broadcast by media organizations served by the school's unique news distribution plan. We specialize in enterprise reporting, multimedia and online journalism, as well as on accountability, working to uncover misbehavior by people in power.
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Medill School of Journalism ©2017 | Northwestern University