by Medill News Service | Oct 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway addressed the media in Spin Alley. (MNS) Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook answered questions after the vice presidential debate. (MNS) Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala answered questions from the media in Spin Alley. (MNS) Rev....
by Medill News Service | Mar 7, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A few weeks after announcing an ambitious defense initiative dubbed “Star Wars,” President Ronald Reagan found himself at Camp David watching “War Games.” If you haven’t seen it — or weren’t around back then, it stars Matthew Broderick as a young...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in suburban...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security over what they called “gimmicky” accounting. They called the $40.6 billion proposal “unrealistic” and “politically motivated,” because more than...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON–Acting Education Secretary John King stopped by Capitol Hill on Wednesday to make a case for more money for a slew of new education initiatives, but House Republicans said that the department’s proposals will only drain existing cash-strapped...
by Medill News Service | Feb 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump threatened to sue Republican presidential primary rival Ted Cruz over his eligibility to run for president, if the Texas senator doesn’t “retract his lies.” In a news conference Monday in Hanahan, South Carolina, Trump accused Cruz of lying...
by Medill News Service | Feb 1, 2016 | Topics
“These stories aren’t frozen in gold. They come alive–and you can see where they come from,” Roy J. Harris, Jr., veteran journalist and Medill alum (’71) told a group of students at the Medill Washington, D.C. newsroom on Thursday as part of a series of...
by Medill News Service | Jan 20, 2015 | State of the Union
Here’s what the social media world is saying about better broadband (#BetterBroadband).
by Medill News Service | Jan 20, 2015 | State of the Union
Here’s what the social media world is saying about the State of the Union (#SOTU).
by Medill News Service | Jan 20, 2015 | State of the Union
Here’s what the social media world is saying about the White House (#WhiteHouse).
by Medill News Service | Jan 20, 2015 | State of the Union
Here’s what the social media world is saying about free community college (#FreeCommunityCollege).
by Medill News Service | Jan 20, 2015 | Topics
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