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 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 Ethan Cohen | Mar 16, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Take grandmothers, World War II vets and Congressional Gold Medal winners and you have three groups that should be universally popular. So a combination of all three must be a political slam dunk right? Well that’s the hope of a bipartisan group of...
by Noah Fromson | Mar 16, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON – An integrity unit in the Harris County district attorney’s office, which identifies and corrects false convictions, is responsible for 76 total overturned drug convictions dating back to mid-2014, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. In all...
by Ethan Cohen | Mar 1, 2016 | Living
The front steps of the Supreme Court building, where the court heard oral arguments Tuesday. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) WASHINGTON– Lester Ray Nichols, a sex offender who moved out of the country and never updated his registration, might not have been actually...
by Nick Hagar | Feb 29, 2016 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON — A prominent financial figure highlighted a new way of funding social programs Monday – social impact bonds, contracts that bring private money to ventures that can improve society. By bringing increased capital to social programs, social impact bonds...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 19, 2016 | Living
[rev_slider alias=”Blackhawks”] WASHINGTON — In an East Room packed with government workers and hockey fans alike, President Barack Obama welcomed the Chicago Blackhawks to the White House Thursday to celebrate the team’s third Stanley Cup...
by Erin Bacon | Feb 10, 2016 | Health & Science, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Better police training and specialized criminal justice procedures could cut down on the disproportionately high numbers of mentally ill people who wind up in the nation’s courts and jails, several criminal justice experts told a Senate committee...
by Drew Gerber | Feb 10, 2016 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON– The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would require anyone employed by the Defense Department to report cases of suspected child abuse on military installations to state child protective service agencies in addition to reporting such suspected...
by Noah Fromson | Feb 8, 2016 | Health & Science, Living
Chipotle closed all of its stores nationwide Monday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a mandatory employee food safety meeting. The chain is responding to health issues from the summer and is working to implement new safety protocols. See how consumers reacted when they...
by Natalie Escobar | Feb 3, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON- Tighter restrictions for access to federal food assistance programs will jeopardize the health of low-income people who struggle to get healthy food, witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing said Tuesday. Representatives of nonprofit groups receiving...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 20, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices questioned lawyers Wednesday about whether tribal sovereignty over Indian reservations can be lost to non-Indian settlements in a case that could affect the territorial boundaries of Indian reservations and tribes’ rights to...
