by Eunice Lee | Oct 11, 2016 | Business, Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON –The Supreme Court Tuesday wrestled with how to apply a 1952 patent law, particularly sections related to design patents, to a tech industry where innovation and aesthetic appeal play key roles in originality – with Apple arguing that Samsung shouldn’t...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
ST. LOUIS – For U.S,. college students getting their first taste of presidential politics, the Clinton-Trump election is baffling. “As a Republican, there is nothing I wanted more than to vote for the Republican nominee,” said Zach Persing of Livingston, New Jersey....
by David Gernon | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — “A shotgun spray to kill a fly is not a good approach.” That was Nicole Tribble’s description of Donald Trump’s plan to combat the Islamic State as she stopped to take a picture near the White House on Monday, the day after...
by Jason Mast | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Dozens of Black Lives Matter activists briefly blocked traffic at a downtown Washington intersection during Monday evening’s rush hour to protest the September police killing of Terrence Sterling, a 31-year-old black man who was shot after his motorcycle...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Increasing foreign investments and creating peace will be key to Myanmar’s economic development under its newly empowered NLD government, a policy adviser and former U.S. ambassador said Monday, but the country’s powerful military and resistance to...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics, Topics
ST. LOUIS – Tom Hildebrand brought 50 signs supporting Donald Trump and Mike Pence to Washington University ahead of the second presidential debate on Sunday. Within a couple of hours, those signs were gone. Most of the Wash U students in attendance were holding...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics, Topics
ST. LOUIS — Before the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Sunday, Washington University in St. Louis female students rallied in support for Clinton, calling Trump’s recently revealed lewd remarks about women evidence that he...
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,...
by Andrew Merica | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
ST. LOUIS – After a contentious second presidential debate, campaign officials, surrogates and reporters clamored into the spin room to discuss the candidates’ performances. U.S. News and World Report’s David Catanese gives us a look inside. (Andrew...
by Rishika Dugyala | Oct 9, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON— With a new team coming to town in January, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Steve Preston urged future cabinet officers to incorporate private sector practices as a way of improving communication...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Oct 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
FARMVILLE, VA.– As the vice presidential debate came to a close, campaign surrogates filled the spin room, where they made their case to swarms of reporters on why their candidate had...
