by Catherine Reid | Mar 19, 2013 | Politics
President Obama, Prime Minister Kenny, House Speaker Boehner and Rep. King descend the South Capitol steps after the Friends of Ireland Luncheon. Catherine Reid/MedillCatherine Reid/MedillCatherine Reid/MedillCatherine Reid/MedillCatherine Reid/Medill WASHINGTON—House...
by Catherine Reid | Mar 18, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON–Tracy and Matt Keil’s two-year-old twins love playing on their father’s wheelchair, one on his lap, the other hanging on the back. “They know daddy’s in a wheelchair, but they don’t know he’s any different,” Tracy said. On Feb. 24, 2007, while...
by Catherine Reid | Mar 13, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON—In 2009 Anna Kalmbacher and her husband Gabriel adopted two boys from Uganda after spending time there doing missionary work. “You can’t go into it blindly or else you’re going to be taken advantage of, or the child is going to be taken advantage of,”...
by Catherine Reid | Feb 27, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — When comedian Seth MacFarlane joked about Jews running Hollywood during the Academy Awards, the Anti-Defamation League quickly labeled the remark “offensive and not remotely funny.” An official of the ADL told a congressional hearing Wednesday that...
by Catherine Reid | Feb 20, 2013 | Business, Politics
Fix the Debt: It’s Full of Baloney from Medill Washington on Vimeo. Video by Catherine Reid. Text by Summer Delaney. WASHINGTON—National labor groups and other activists demonstrated and briefly blocked an intersection in the nation’s capital Tuesday to protest...
by Catherine Reid | Feb 5, 2013 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based international news network, should be classified as a global terrorist authority, according to several conservative organizations that announced Tuesday they are trying to have it blocked from U.S. viewers. Cliff Kincaid,...
by Catherine Reid | Jan 29, 2013 | Politics
A skull removed from a dog fighting grave site is featured in the exhibit (Catherine Reid/Medill).Coco, an ASPCA success story, was rescued and rehabilitated over the course of seven months (Catherine Reid/Medill).Randall Lockwood, senior vice president of forensic...
by Catherine Reid | Jan 23, 2013 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony on the State Department’s handling of the terrorist attack on the Benghazi, Libya, consulate may be over, but criticism from GOP members of Congress clearly is not. One of the most vocal members at the...
by Catherine Reid | Jan 22, 2013 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — A group of House Republicans met Tuesday at a conservative think tank for an event billed as Conversations with Conservatives – and Wednesday’s House vote on extending the debt limit topped their agenda. Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., said extending the...
by Catherine Reid | Jan 15, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON– Taxation without representation has yet another disadvantage: fewer tickets to the presidential inauguration on Jan. 21. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton received fewer than 200 tickets for her district, not nearly enough to fill the 4,000 requests she...
