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Veterans Seek More Ways to Heal from Military Sexual Assault

Veterans Seek More Ways to Heal from Military Sexual Assault

by Brooke Fowler | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Sexual assaults of members of the military have risen in recent years, and some female veterans say they need better mental health services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which already has implemented some new treatment plans for mental health...
Maryland schools tackle funding disparities and infrastructure problems

Maryland schools tackle funding disparities and infrastructure problems

by Nirmal Mulaikal and Samantha Handler | Mar 21, 2019 | Education, Featured

  BALTIMORE — Disparities in funding for education infrastructure are evident in Maryland. In Frederick, the school district was able to raise money through state and local funds to build a new $114 million high school. But 50 miles away, Dr. Martin Luther King...
Trump Plan to End Loan Forgiveness Program Could Make Government, Nonprofit Jobs Less Attractive

Trump Plan to End Loan Forgiveness Program Could Make Government, Nonprofit Jobs Less Attractive

by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2020 to eliminate a program that offers government and nonprofit workers a way to have their federal education loan forgiven would make it harder for nonprofits and government agencies to attract employees,...
3D PRINTERS, GUN BLUEPRINTS COULD POSE NATIONAL SECURITY RISK

3D PRINTERS, GUN BLUEPRINTS COULD POSE NATIONAL SECURITY RISK

by Justin Askenazy | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON – In August 2015, Eric McGinnis was arrested for violently attacking his girlfriend. A judge issued a protective order that said McGinnis could not own a gun for two years. Less than a year later, the Dallas native tried to purchase a gun, but a...
“I felt very detached,” says new mother who struggled with perinatal depression

“I felt very detached,” says new mother who struggled with perinatal depression

by Heena Srivastava and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Living

WASHINGTON –– Gail Sasse gave birth to her son, Joey, in late February, but she didn’t feel close to the baby until recently. Joey spent the first days of his life in the NICU after he began experiencing tremors — a symptom of neonatal abstinence syndrome. He...
As 2020 Looms, Election Security Experts Worry

As 2020 Looms, Election Security Experts Worry

by Cameron Peters | Mar 20, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — Despite at least 21 states being the target of Russian hacking in the 2016 election, experts say that there is no evidence that a foreign power has interfered in the outcome of a U.S. election then or since. But election cybersecurity experts say 2020 is...
Supreme Court hears arguments on racial bias in death penalty case

Supreme Court hears arguments on racial bias in death penalty case

by Samantha Handler | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Most of the Supreme Court justices Wednesday said they will consider the history of racial bias in jury selection by the prosecutor in a Mississippi man’s murder conviction and death sentence. Justice Elena Kagan strongly questioned whether Mississippi...
Departing FDA commissioner Warns against youth vaping

Departing FDA commissioner Warns against youth vaping

by Samantha Handler | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Departing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency should remain committed to his fight against vaping at a Brookings Institution event on Tuesday, saying its benefits in helping adults quit smoking should not come “at the...
NASA unveils study of rare “active asteroid”

NASA unveils study of rare “active asteroid”

by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — NASA on Tuesday unveiled new discoveries from its first asteroid sample retrieval mission, notably that the asteroid the scientists planned on sampling is a rare “active asteroid.” According to the mission’s principal investigator Dante Lauretta, an...
EXPERTS GRAPPLE OVER HOW TO REIN IN BIG TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

EXPERTS GRAPPLE OVER HOW TO REIN IN BIG TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

by Henry Erlandson | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Technology

WASHINGTON — Holding tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon accountable for how they collect and story users’ data as well as how they dominate the industry should be done through oversight by federal agencies rather than sweeping data privacy laws like those...
International Cooperation Necessary to Keep Japan Cybersecure During the 2020 Olympics, Say Experts

International Cooperation Necessary to Keep Japan Cybersecure During the 2020 Olympics, Say Experts

by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Technology

WASHINGTON—Hosting the 2020 summer Olympic games makes Tokyo a target for cyberattacks, and the best defense is international cooperation, experts said Tuesday. At last year’s games in South Korea, cyberattacks downed hundreds of computers, taking the Internet and TV...

Inside the government’s war against deepfakes

by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — Adult film star Raquel Roper was watching a trailer for popular Youtuber Shane Dawson’s new series focusing on the video manipulation trend known as deepfakes. Near the end of the video, she noticed a clip taken from one of her films — but it wasn’t...
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