by Summer Delaney | Mar 19, 2013 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Christine Mau spent her childhood trying to be “invisible” because when people saw her, bad things happened. It was only when she reached college that she began confiding to classmates her history of sexual assault by her father and her boyfriend. With...
by Summer Delaney | Mar 13, 2013 | Living
WASHINGTON—As the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics looked toward their new leader Pope Francis I on the Vatican balcony, American Catholics appear divided on the direction they want for their church under a new pontiff. According to a Pew Research Center survey last...
by Summer Delaney | Mar 13, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON –Twilight’s Ashley Greene, the latest celebrity to hit Capitol Hill, helped launch the first “branding” symbol to combat domestic violence and sexual assault Wednesday, saying young victims need to better understand how to stand up for themselves. The...
by Summer Delaney | Mar 5, 2013 | Business
WASHINGTON—The Gross Domestic Product will shrink by 0.5 percent this year due to the sequester of federal funds, Treasury Undersecretary of International Affairs Lael Brainard said Tuesday. In light of the fiscal climate, Brainard urged legislators and leading...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 28, 2013 | Living, Politics
Voting Rights Act advocates rallied outside of the Supreme Court during the oral arguments of the case Shelby County v. Holder. Court hears Voting Rights Act challenge from Medill Washington on Vimeo.
by Summer Delaney | Feb 26, 2013 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged the Senate Tuesday to make gradual cuts in the federal budget and avoid the sweeping, automatic reductions promised by the impending sequester. Bernanke’s appearance before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 20, 2013 | Business, Politics
Fix the Debt: It’s Full of Baloney from Medill Washington on Vimeo. Video by Catherine Reid. Text by Summer Delaney. WASHINGTON—National labor groups and other activists demonstrated and briefly blocked an intersection in the nation’s capital Tuesday to protest...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 19, 2013 | Business
WASHINGTON – The 1960s paradigm of middle class workers serving as the “sacred trust” of the business world is declining in significance and practice, a panel of scholars and journalists discussed at the Urban Institute Tuesday. “We’ve moved from the stake-holder...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 12, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON—In an unusual effort to crowd the State of the Union address with single-issue advocates, more than 30 members of Congress gave their House chamber tickets to Americans affected by gun violence. “[This effort] is about the families, about protecting our...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 11, 2013 | Living
WASHINGTON— With news of Pope Benedict XVI’s abrupt resignation stunning Christians worldwide, young American Catholics were left confused yet optimistic Monday about the future of the Church. “It is not necessarily a sad event but it is kind of a somber time,”...
by Summer Delaney | Feb 5, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled legislation Tuesday that would make firearms trafficking – purchasing a gun for the express purpose of delivering it to a prohibited person — a federal crime. The bill’s sponsors, Republican Reps. Patrick Meehan of...
by Summer Delaney | Jan 29, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With President Barack Obama’s televised State of the Union address only two weeks away, the Boys and Girls Club of America’s Youth of the Year went online Tuesday for a national address to discuss the future of the nation’s youth. “We are giving a...
