Senate Acts After Train Derailment
A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed last month in eastern Ohio. U.S. senators have introduced a new rail safety bill to prevent future railroad disasters and held a hearing to learn more about the incident. Details continue to emerge about the environmental and health impacts on the community. Here, btw takes a closer look at the accident, […]
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Impeachment Trial Moves to Public Hearing Phase The impeachment inquiry continues this week, with two days of public hearings scheduled before the House of Representatives. On Wednesday, November 13, the House will hear from William Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine. Then on Friday, November 15, House committee members will hear from Marie Yovanovitch, the […]
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Solving the Poverty Problem If you had to take a guess, how long would you say it would take to end world poverty? A hundred years? A thousand? Actually, the unofficial global “deadline” to end world poverty has been set at 2030. And it looks like we’re not going to make it. In 2015, a […]
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A Champion Promise LeBron James may be the best basketball player in the world. But now he’s contributing something to society that’s arguably even more meaningful: a school. Situated in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, James’s school–called “I Promise”–is no ordinary educational facility. Focusing on academically “at-risk” youth, the program seeks to do more than […]
Pruitt Departs EPA
This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site provides the news that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has resigned from this cabinet level position in the Trump administration. Recently, Pruitt has been facing intense investigations about his spending habits on Capitol Hill. More news stories keep appearing to document […]
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Facebook vs. Congress Last week, Election Central brought you the story of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, which resulted in private information of up to 87 million Facebook customers being harvested by Cambridge Analytica and used by Trump’s presidential campaign. In the wake of this privacy breach, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, was called to […]
California Leads the Way in the Battle Against Climate Change
Back in June, Election Central brought you the story of how California governor Jerry Brown was leading a group of governors and mayors from across the country who all pledged to follow the tents of the Paris Climate Accord even after President Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement. Now, we take a […]
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Changes for Baltimore Police Department In 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man, was arrested by police in Baltimore, Maryland. During his arrest, he sustained a severe spinal cord injury and died while in custody. Six officers were charged in Gray’s death, yet none were convicted, setting off a widespread wave of protests and […]
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Congressional Hearing on Flint Earlier this year, btw brought you news of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. This month, the federal government held a Congressional hearing on the matter. The purpose of a Congressional hearing is for members of a committee to listen to testimony in an effort to solve a situation through legislation. […]
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Accidental Blast Rocks Benghazi With tensions in the Middle East high, it’s only natural that any kind of explosion would raise suspicions of continued terrorism. However, a May 13 explosion near the coast line of the Mediterranean Sea appears to have been accidental. At least 13 people are dead and more than 40 injured following […]