by Andrew Marquardt | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, Health, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – As overdose deaths in America continue to reach record highs, lawmakers convened Thursday to discuss how best to tackle the issue at one of its most dangerous sources: the alarming influx of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances infiltrating the...
by Julia Shapero | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark for criminal contempt of Congress. However, even as the nine lawmakers on the panel moved forward...
![Video: Justices’ Questions Suggest Court Could Uphold Mississippi Abortion Ban, Overturning 50 Years of Precedent]()
by Annie Klingenberg | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured, Health, Politics, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. The justices heard from lawyers arguing in favor of a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks. If upheld, the law would overturn 50 years...
by Ariel Gans | Nov 30, 2021 | Consumer Protection, Coronavirus, Economy, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Omicron variant will not send the economy back to 2020 levels, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Tuesday. Powell said that despite inflation hitting a 31-year high, the economy is strong, with robust spending signaling growth in...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists placed thousands of pairs of flip flops on the National Mall last weekend to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has resulted in more than 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the country. Demonstrators also lobbied for...
by Julia Shapero | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Federal judges pushed former President Donald Trump’s and the government’s lawyers to suggest a means of balancing competing demands of executive privilege between the current and former presidents at a hearing on Tuesday. “Who decides when it’s in...
