by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 27, 2016 | Featured
WASHINGTON — Facial recognition software, iris scanners and fingerprint matching are spy-movie staples but they also are part of a national security debate over whether they should be installed at U.S. borders to ensure all foreign travelers who come to the U.S....
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Immigration
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Manuel Loaiza, 24, and his mother were some of the last people leaving a Marco Rubio rally Sunday night in Virginia Beach. Loaiza and his mom, who he said doesn’t speak English very well, are two of thousands of conservative Latinos across the...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 16, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to the Supreme Court Wednesday, and Republicans congressional leaders immediately called the move an attempt to help Democrats in the November...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
[rev_slider alias=”puertorico”][/rev_slider] WASHINGTON — Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” and several New York members of Congress offered a proposal Tuesday to fix a quirk in federal law that bars Puerto Rico from...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
RICHMOND, Va. – As TV screens announced a Hillary Clinton win over Bernie Sanders in Virginia on Super Tuesday, some of the Democrats filling a bar in the state capital Richmond cheered; and some didn’t. But they all agreed that their party’s primary candidates’...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 24, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Pop star Demi Lovato, soul artist Leon Bridges and several other stars joined first lady Michelle Obama at her final White House music event for young people Wednesday, where she urged about 100 students from elementary school through college to...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 10, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Having safe cities is a first step to develop a nation economically, security experts said Wednesday as the Brookings Institution and JPMorgan Chase announced a joint project that aims to help cities improve safety. The project aims to “help cities...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 8, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — When 12-year-old Joel Salazar lived in El Salvador, he was beaten by gang members on his way to school for failing to pay “la renta” — extortion money. His mother, who already had fled to the United States, told Joel to leave the...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 2, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday there are 3,700 American troops in Iraq fighting the Islamic State, but Turkey, the Gulf nations and Europe also need to to provide more military manpower against the terrorist group. During a speech to the...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 1, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Representatives of nations in the Americas debated proposals Monday that would facilitate absentee voting for immigrants and encourage governments to offer dual citizenship. Maria Moreno, a representative of the International Organization for...
by Mariana Alfaro | Jan 28, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Companies’ trade secrets, which are vital to their growth, would be better protected from industrial spies under a bill creating federal standards to prosecute violators while still maintaining the integrity of the information. The Defend Trade...
by Mariana Alfaro | Jan 28, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Immigration experts warned Wednesday that Central American immigrants, targeted by recent deportation raids, are being sent to their deaths in the Northern Triangle countries – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The raids, started by the Obama...
