by Nicolas Rivero | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics
Want to read this story on the dark web?—The dark web might seem scary and complicated, but it’s actually quite easy to get started using the Tor web browser to go onto the dark web and protect your privacy. We published this story as a Tor hidden service — a...
by Nicolas Rivero | Mar 14, 2016 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — A newly discovered species, an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sheds light on how tyrannosaurs evolved from small man-sized predators into the iconic dinosaur we know from Jurassic Park, scientists announced Monday. Smithsonian paleobiologist...
by Nicolas Rivero | Mar 7, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON — It’s up to local communities to find ways to reduce U.S. transportation emissions because the federal government is unlikely to lead the way, some environmental leaders and government officials said Monday. Last December, Congress passed the FAST...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 22, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Jeb Bush looked reenergized at a rally Thursday evening after a testy appearance the day before in which he joked that he should “stop campaigning maybe.” But those who came to hear him speak in Rock Hill still had the same doubts that have plagued...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 22, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. – Donald Trump supporters in South Carolina on Friday were unmoved by Pope Francis’s comments the day before that were widely interpreted as a criticism of the Republican front-runner’s Christianity. “A person who thinks only about building walls,...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 18, 2016 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Three days before South Carolina Republican voters cast their primary ballots, Republican presidential candidates Wednesday grounded their messages to a town hall audience in the Bible passage “By their fruits ye shall know them,” with Ben Carson...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 9, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s proposed 2017 budget would reduce NASA spending nearly $300 million from 2016 – but those cuts face staunch opposition from a space-friendly Congress. The $19 billion NASA budget, which the White House released Tuesday, included...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 2, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — If the commercial space launch industry is to expand beyond a niche market, it will have to figure out how to get every-day people into space affordably, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Commercial space launch companies generally sustain...
by Nicolas Rivero | Jan 28, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON – Republicans have an “extraordinary opportunity” to win the presidency in 2016 if their nominee has a clear message that the GOP’s economic policies with their focus on lower taxes, less government regulation and fewer entitlement programs will...
by Nicolas Rivero | Jan 19, 2016 | Health & Science, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON – A group of medical industry leaders offered a $1 million reward on Tuesday to anyone with a workable idea for a system enabling doctors to quickly and accurately identify patients. In the United States, electronic medical records are stored in a patchwork...
by Nicolas Rivero | Jan 13, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board unveiled a wish list Wednesday for improvements in regulation that it hopes will be carried out this year. NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart said full implementation of Positive Train Control, a railroad safety...
by Nicolas Rivero | Jan 12, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
As police with bomb-sniffing dogs swept the halls of Congress in preparation for the State of the Union early Tuesday night, senators began trundling into the Capitol on the small subway tram that runs between their offices and the Senate basement. Medill intercepted...
