by Ross Krasner | 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 Ross Krasner | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Linda Sanchez edged Rep. Barbara Lee Wednesday in a race for the vice chairwoman in the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives. Usually a little watched contest, this one was different for its historic implications. No matter who...
by Ross Krasner | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that the fight for a higher minimum wage should shift to state and local governments while Republicans control both chambers of Congress. Her remarks came during a conference call with reporters following release...
by Ross Krasner | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured, Immigration
There are over 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here is one of their stories.
by Ross Krasner | Nov 14, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The governor of an Iraqi province that was retaken from ISIS said Monday that lessons from the aftermath of the ordeal should be applied to the city of Mosul, assuming it is freed from the terror group. Najmaldin Karim, governor of Kirkuk province...
by Ross Krasner | Nov 14, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Just hours after the highly anticipated White House visit of president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, President Barack Obama got visitors he probably enjoyed a little bit more, hosting the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers. “That’s right I said...
by Ross Krasner | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON — In the early morning hours of Nov. 9, hundreds of people gathered outside of the White House, stunned. Many assumed they would be celebrating the election of the first female president. Now, they held their Clinton-Kaine posters at half-mast. Dozens...
by Ross Krasner | 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 Ross Krasner | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –Abdalaziz Alhamza, the co-founder of a group working to expose the terror tactics of the so-called Islamic State in its de facto capital in Syria, said Monday his group has dealt with many threats as it struggles to counter extremist propaganda in Raqqa....
by Ross Krasner | 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 Ross Krasner | 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 Ross Krasner | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Governors and city councils in some parts of the country are ditching Christopher Columbus Day and using the three day weekend to celebrate people that they see as the Italian explorer’s victims. In Washington, where no such change has taken place,...
