by Cameron Peters | Mar 22, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Experts say electronic voting machines pose a threat to the security of American elections, but Congress has shown little interest in requiring more secure machines nationwide despite Russian hacking in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The states that have...
by Cameron Peters | Mar 20, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Despite at least 21 states being the target of Russian hacking in the 2016 election, experts say that there is no evidence that a foreign power has interfered in the outcome of a U.S. election then or since. But election cybersecurity experts say 2020 is...
by Cameron Peters | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students and activists skipped school on Friday to protest in front of the Capitol as part of a worldwide student climate strike. The strike was one of more than 2,000 to take place around the world. According to organizer Greta Thunberg, a...
by Cameron Peters | Mar 12, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Students across the country designed cities that will meet the rising threat of natural disasters while maintaining innovative solutions in transportation, waste management and electrical power. The designs were developed for the annual Future City...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Experts Thursday called the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia and uncertainty about the future of another treaty with Russia — New START — an indication that the administration is not...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a contentious House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz interrogated Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert McMahon over the reallocation of funding for President Donald Trump’s national emergency...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured
WASHINGTON — A House Appropriations committee said Wednesday that not only did foreign actors attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, but that ahead of the 2020 election, vulnerabilities in many state election systems have not been fixed. Their testimony reaffirmed...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 21, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — With a second summit between the United States and North Korea less than a week away, an expert on nuclear proliferation Thursday emphasized the complexity of U.S.-North Korea negotiations and warned that expectations for the talks should be limited. “We...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 12, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Transitioning to a clean energy economy is more than just a necessary step to address climate change, Just Energy Director Chandra Farley told lawmakers on Tuesday. According to Farley, it also offers an opportunity to address issues of racial injustice,...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democrats called for an end to what they characterized as human rights abuses by the Trump administration on Thursday in two consecutive, emotionally charged press conferences. Along with activist groups like Indivisible, MoveOn and United We Dream,...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) — Almost a year after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday called for universal background checks on gun sales and raising the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle. The House has not...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got one of his biggest rounds of applause during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he noted that Congress now has a record-high number of elected women, but it wasn’t lost on the crowd that when the women rose to...
