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...
by Fallon Schlossman | Oct 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
PHILADELPHIA – Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will speak to Pennsylvania voters Wednesday night after what some are calling a narrow loss to Mike Pence in Tuesday’s debate. A CNN/ORC poll published after the debate estimates that Pence was...
by Anna Waters | Oct 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
FARMVILLE, Va. — Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence faced off at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia on Wednesday night in a contentious debate devoted mostly to foreign policy and economic issues. For Longwood students, it was a night to put...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 5, 2016 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Technology will fuel an increase of up to 3 percent in the gross domestic product of every country in the world over the next decade, the chairman of the board of Cisco Systems said at an International Monetary Fund panel Wednesday. “If you look at...
by Ross Krasner | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A cure for Type 1 diabetes could be discovered “within two decades”, an expert told the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus on Wednesday. Boston University Assistant Professor Arturo Vegas acknowledged that the time frame depends greatly on the...
by Medill News Service | Oct 5, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway addressed the media in Spin Alley. (MNS) Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook answered questions after the vice presidential debate. (MNS) Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala answered questions from the media in Spin Alley. (MNS) Rev....
by Benjamin Din | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed to side with Duane Buck, a condemned man, during oral arguments Wednesday involving a decades-old Texas death-penalty case that included racially discriminatory references during court testimony. In 1997, Buck was sentenced to...
