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Controversial National Public Radio (NPR) chief Katherine Maher met with a Republican senator and the organization rolled out a new layer of editorial review on Wednesday in response to the fallout from a former senior editor’s scathing essay alleging significant bias at the outlet. “She acknowledged the problem, which I think is a pretty good first step,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, …

A House Republican-led bill aimed at overhauling Washington, D.C.’s criminal policies passed with the support of 18 Democrats on Wednesday evening. It is a sign that crime in the nation’s capital has been an increasingly urgent issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Rep. Byron Donalds’ D.C. Criminal Reform to Immediately Make Everyone Safer (DC CRIMES) Act would …

A man is wanted in Washington state after authorities say he stabbed a woman in the neck on the Clark College campus on Tuesday. The woman told responding officers that she was sitting outside the Archer building on campus when an unknown man approached her screaming for help, the Vancouver Police Department said. She said that she thought the man …

Rev. Billy Graham was remembered as “one of America’s greatest citizens and enduring heroes” during an unveiling ceremony of a statue in his honor at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 16. The event featured speeches from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation, and Rev. Franklin Graham, son of …

President John Adams moved the federal government from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., on this day in history, May 15, 1800. The move was completed relatively quickly, according to History.com, with important documents brought to Washington by ships. Adams had ordered his cabinet to ensure every office would be operating as usual in Washington, D.C., within one month, noted the same …

The U.S. Capitol Police announced that a small bag of cocaine had been found in a “heavily trafficked” hallway of its headquarters. In a press release Wednesday, the agency announced that around 1 p.m., a roughly one-inch-by-one-inch bag filled with a “white powdery substance” was found in the middle of the floor at the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) headquarters in …

A federal judge’s decision to sentence pro-life activists to years in prison for blocking access to an abortion clinic has sent shock waves online. Lauren Handy, 30, was one of three activists convicted of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) for blocking access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. 22, 2020. …

President Biden addressed the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the Capitol on Wednesday, paying tribute to police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. In remarks at the annual event, which is sponsored by the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Biden highlighted the trip he took to North Carolina just a couple of weeks ago …

Democrat Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has faced the ire of critics over the past week for taking a private jet to The Masters golf tournament as violent crime continues to plague her city. Bowser, who is now dealing with an approval rating in free-fall, traveled with a senior adviser on a jet belonging to Jodie McClean, a real estate …

Leaders in many cities have recently concluded that it was a bad idea to decriminalize hard drugs. Unless you get your news from NPR, you already knew that allowing people to buy fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin without consequences would end in pain and chaos for both drug users and their communities. Woke cities and states throughout the country are …