POLITICO • 17th April 2023

Washington used to abhor talking about mental health. No more.

Sen. John Fetterman’s return to the Hill on Monday will provide the most visible example of the nation’s capital — a city where public figures often fight to keep personal battles shrouded in secrecy — slowly embracing an issue that affects 1 in 5 Americans in a given year. From Congress to the White House, policymakers have begun leaning into mental health as a key policy priority.

POLITICO • 2nd April 2023

Want to see the hurdles Biden really faces in making progress on guns? Come to W.Va.

If there’s one place in America that reflects the hurdles the Biden administration faces as it tries to get a handle on the country’s gun violence epidemic, it’s the National Tracing Center tucked in the mountains of West Virginia.

POLITICO • 10th February 2023

SCOOP: Biden Cabinet member lawyers up as GOP threatens impeachment

The Department of Homeland Security has hired impeachment attorneys as the new House GOP majority moves to boot Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border, according to three DHS officials familiar with the agreement.

POLITICO • 9th January 2023

Migration issues cast long shadow over Biden’s visit to ‘3 Amigos’ summit

Joe Biden has no shortage of topics to tackle in his first presidential trip to Mexico.

There’s the major shift in border policy that came just days before the trip. There’s the arrest of an alleged drug trafficker in Mexico long sought by U.S. authorities. And there’s the border itself, which Biden visited for the first time as president when he made a stop in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday evening.

POLITICO • 5th January 2023

Biden announces new program to curb illegal migration as he prepares for visit to border

In a rare White House address on the nation’s southern border crisis, President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled new policy that will accept 30,000 migrants a month from four nations but also will crack down on those who fail to use the plan’s legal pathways. Myah scooped Biden's policy announcement ahead of his address at the White House.

POLITICO • 13th December 2022

Biden still feels ‘a moral obligation’ to Sandy Hook, 10 years later

President Joe Biden's inability to deliver for Sandy Hook families still weighs heavily on him 10 years later — playing an outsized role in fueling his continued push on curbing gun violence.

POLITICO • 24th June 2022

‘With sorrow ... we dissent’: Liberal justices rebuke decision to overturn Roe

In a scathing dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan accuse the Court of discarding the “balance” the court struck for half a century as it found a middle ground between “respecting a woman as an autonomous being” and protecting the life of a fetus.

POLITICO • 24th June 2022

Photos: Reactions as North Dakota's sole abortion provider prepares to shutter

Abortion will be illegal in the state as soon as the attorney general certifies to the legislative council the Dobbs ruling, setting into motion the state’s trigger law, which prohibits all abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the pregnant patient. Red River Women’s Clinic has plans to move across state lines to Minnesota, but until North Dakota kicks them out, the clinic’s doors will stay open.

POLITICO • 23rd June 2022

Blue state gun laws on the chopping block with Supreme Court ruling

Gun control advocates and gun rights groups agree on one aspect of the Supreme Court’s move to strike down New York’s century-old gun law on Thursday: The ruling’s impact goes well beyond New York’s borders.

POLITICO • 25th May 2022

How to change ‘Nothing will change’

After every school shooting in the United States, a now 7-year-old tweet by the British journalist Dan Hodges makes the rounds: “In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”

Nothing will change now, either. That’s an overwhelming sentiment today, after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults Tuesday in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

POLITICO • 23rd May 2022

How abortion bans might affect IVF

That word choice has led not only to blaring alarms about what this means for Oklahomans’ access to abortion, but also to additional warnings from abortion rights advocates and some Democrats that such legislation could also affect fertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization.

POLITICO • 19th April 2022

GOP govs play final cards ahead of primaries

In just two weeks, Ohio and Indiana will launch a busy portion of the 2022 primary calendar on May 3. And as the clock ticks down, GOP governors are gearing up for reelection across the country, making their final pitches to voters to show they’re still up for the job.

POLITICO • 5th April 2022

Humanitarian groups on the scene in Bucha

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council today that Russian soldiers have tortured and shot Ukrainian civilians in the head. Other civilians have been killed by grenades thrown into their apartment or crushed to death by tanks while in their cars, Zelenskyy said. Mothers have been raped and killed in front of their children.

POLITICO • 5th November 2021

Gun control legislation isn’t going to happen. Here’s what Biden’s doing instead.

As president, Biden has promised billions of dollars in funding for community violence intervention, or CVI, programs that have been shown to break cycles of violence by connecting high-risk individuals to wraparound social services.

POLITICO • 30th September 2021

Al Qaeda’s murky future in Afghanistan

Six to 36 months. That’s how long it could take al Qaeda to reconstitute in Afghanistan, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley said in a hearing Wednesday.

POLITICO • 30th August 2021

U.S. ends 20-year mission in Afghanistan

Gen. Frank McKenzie, the chief of U.S. Central Command, announced Monday that the last C-17s took off from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport around 3:29 p.m. Washington, D.C., time, leaving that facility and the country in the Taliban’s possession.

POLITICO • 14th June 2021

Biden calls Putin 'a worthy adversary' ahead of meeting

Two days before he talks to Russia’s leader, President Joe Biden on Monday sought to tamp down expectations of the long-anticipated meeting by acknowledging that Vladimir Putin is a “worthy adversary.” 77

POLITICO • 8th June 2021

At least 3,900 children separated from families under Trump ‘zero tolerance’ policy, task force finds

The Biden administration has determined that more than 3,900 children were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy from July 2017 through January 2021, according to a Reunification Task Force report released Tuesday — and it’s possible that number will grow as the task force reviews more cases.

POLITICO • 30th April 2021

College enrollment is down — and dropping

Saturday is the last day for many high school seniors to decide where they’ll spend the next four years of their education — many without even stepping foot on a college campus.

POLITICO • 22nd April 2021

New England’s vaccine success story

So how did the “Live Free or Die” state buck the trends of other blue states that are lagging on vaccines and reopenings?

“Nimble” government, private partnerships, avoiding messy bureaucratic entanglements with federal programs and ignoring the politics. Those are just a few takeaways from Nightly’s interview with Gov. Chris Sununu.

POLITICO • 21st April 2020

Coronavirus lockdowns pit Republican governors against Democratic mayors

As some Republican governors move to reopen parts of their states' shuttered economies, local Democratic leaders are pushing back — fearful that easing guidelines too early could wipe away the progress their cities have made in battling the novel coronavirus.

POLITICO • 15th April 2020

15 times Trump praised China as coronavirus was spreading across the globe

President Donald Trump yanked U.S. funding for the World Health Organization on Tuesday, complaining that the United Nations public health agency was overly deferential to China and had put too much faith in Beijing’s assertions that it had the coronavirus outbreak there was under control.

The New York Times • 4th January 2020

Tensions Abroad Stir a Whirlwind at Fort Bragg as Soldiers Deploy

Some 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division are bound for the Middle East, spelling uncertainty for families and a community where the base is its backbone.

The News and Observer • 25th December 2019

‘Persistence and survival’: One of NC’s largest plantations tells story of slavery

More than 900 people were enslaved at one time on the Stagville Plantation. Down the gravel road in Durham, trees cover the land of what used to be one of North Carolina’s largest plantations.