by Ethan Cohen | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama mentioned House Speaker Paul Ryan only once in his last State of the Union address – when he raised their shared goal of tackling poverty. The two men don’t agree on much. But the idea of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, a...
by Mariana Alfaro, Allyson Chiu and Celena Chong | Mar 27, 2016 | Featured
WASHINGTON — Facial recognition software, iris scanners and fingerprint matching are spy-movie staples but they also are part of a national security debate over whether they should be installed at U.S. borders to ensure all foreign travelers who come to the U.S....
by Julia Jacobs | Mar 27, 2016 | Featured
WASHINGTON — In 1993, the United States government proposed adding a piece of hardware to telephones that would give it access to encrypted communications with a court-approved wiretap. Called the “Clipper chip,” the technology was like an encryption key that...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 27, 2016 | Featured
How an unregulated, invisible industry makes a fortune on people’s personal information without them even knowing WASHINGTON — Every year, data brokers make billions of dollars collecting and selling your personal information – even sensitive data like...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 20, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — While the U.S. Navy is better known for its role in protecting Americans from enemies abroad, it also works in labs throughout the world, combatting an unseen enemy: infectious disease. And now, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6) based in Lima,...
