by Jason Mast | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
Ahmed Mansour, a human rights activist based in the United Arab Emirates, has been subject to years of cyberattacks for his activism. But this August, he received one of unprecedented sophistication. On consecutive mornings, Mr. Mansour received texts from an unknown...
by Jason Mast | Dec 1, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The liberal Supreme Court justices Wednesday seemed skeptical of U.S. policies that allowed certain immigrants to be detained for years without trial, potentially signaling a ruling that would impede President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation...
by Jason Mast | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – On the evening of Nov. 8, Tracy Terrill smiled and kissed his partner beneath the vaulted glass ceiling of the Javits Convention Center, Hillary Clinton’s election night headquarters. When the Associated Press called Florida for Donald Trump...
by Jason Mast | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Little over two weeks after president-elect Donald Trump declared he would deport an unprecedented number of immigrants, the Supreme Court Wednesday hears oral arguments in a case that could limit the federal government’s ability to detain...
by Jason Mast | Nov 23, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – For seven years, President Barack Obama has made the turkey pardoning event something of a dad joke, saying it’s been a tradition to embarrass his daughters, Sasha and Malia. This year, he said, they had a scheduling conflict. “Malia and Sasha, by...
by Jason Mast | Nov 16, 2016 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – In a victory for the Blackfeet Nation, the secretary of the interior canceled 15 of the remaining 34-year-old oil and gas leases of Montana land considered sacred by the tribe. In a ceremony at the Department of the Interior, six Blackfeet tribal leaders,...
by Jason Mast | Nov 15, 2016 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s promises to roll back President Barack Obama’s climate change regulations and back out of the Paris Climate Agreement may not have as severe an impact as many environmentalists fear,, a top Energy Department official...
by Jason Mast | Nov 8, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Every week for two months they had marched in protest of the police killing of 31-year-old Terrence Sterling. On Monday, election eve, the protest was smaller but no less passionate. A core of about 50 demonstrators marched across the nation’s capital,...
by Jason Mast | Nov 7, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said fiscal policies worldwide work against women, especially in developing countries, but also endorsed reducing the U.S. wage gap throught mandatory paid parental leave and child care...
by Jason Mast | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
GRAHAM, N.C. – The Rev. Marcia Isley stepped into a voting booth to cast an early ballot for Hillary Clinton last month. But after making her vote, she said she glanced over her electronic screen to see a checkmark next to Donald Trump’s name. With early voting under...
by Jason Mast | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
With Election Day nearing, the major party candidates have set the themes for their campaigns: Republican Donald Trump calls himself the tough-on-crime, law-and-order candidate, while Hillary Clinton paints herself as the reform-minded Democrat working to make inroads...
by Jason Mast | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Rev. Anthony Spearman was standing in line for early voting with 25 to 50 black parishioners recently in Greensboro when he says a white man started shoving through them. “Hillary for Prison,” he shouted. “Get out of my way.” Spearman’s experience...
