by David Gernon | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
Carnegie Mellon In a video last year, Marios Savvides, the director of Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab Biometrics Center, sat in his white Chevy Suburban and peered into his sideview mirror, explaining for the camera that a team of students about 40 feet behind him were...
by David Gernon | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — With the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president, and the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the Cuban government’s goal to revitalize its private sector with strong foreign-direct investment may have moved a bit further out of...
by David Gernon | Nov 29, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy declined to echo President-elect Donald Trump’s false claims over the weekend that “millions” of fraudulent votes on Nov. 8 cost him the popular vote. Trump came under fire over the weekend for tweeting – without...
by David Gernon | Nov 28, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — A World Bank Group official announced Monday an all-time high for countries implementing its reforms they say increase the ease of doing business. Augusto Lopez-Claros, a top official at the World Bank Group, said 137 economies around the world...
by David Gernon | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – Global investors Wednesday tried to make sense of what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for financial markets across the globe. As the possibility of the political outsider’s victory grew Tuesday night, markets worldwide reacted in largely negative...
by David Gernon | Nov 7, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — It is “absolutely in the interest of the United States” to support Taiwan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership despite China’s position that the island nation should be under its umbrella, according to Robert Wang, a former State department...
by David Gernon | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
DURHAM, N.C. — Every four years, College Republicans around the country rally around the GOP nominee for president. But this year, Donald Trump has turned the tradition into a moment of reckoning, pitting club members against club members and chapters against chapters...
by David Gernon | Nov 1, 2016 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A book released Tuesday details how the political climate today in many ways resembles the time immediately preceding the Franklin Roosevelt presidency and the opportunities that presents American democracy. Sabeel Rashman, a former official at the...
by David Gernon | Oct 19, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence called on his supporters to “respectfully ensure the integrity of the vote” on Nov. 8 at a rally in North Carolina Tuesday, a contrast to his running mate Donald Trump’s repeated, unsubstantiated...
by David Gernon | Oct 18, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
DURHAM, N.C. — The Secret Service Monday joined the FBI, local police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate the firebombing of a North Carolina Republican office, the Hillsborough Police Department announced Monday afternoon....
by David Gernon | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — “A shotgun spray to kill a fly is not a good approach.” That was Nicole Tribble’s description of Donald Trump’s plan to combat the Islamic State as she stopped to take a picture near the White House on Monday, the day after...
by David Gernon | Oct 3, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON —The World Bank should more aggressively court private sector partnerships to find new ways to reduce extreme global poverty while making sure the poorest populations benefit, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Monday. Kim said the World Bank needs to...