by Anna Waters | Oct 4, 2016 | Education, Featured
FARMVILLE, Va. – During Tuesday vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, many Longwood University students were hoping to hear detailed plans to deal with mounting college debt. They were disappointed—the issue came up only...
by David Fishman | Oct 4, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
HAVERFORD, Pa. — Hillary Clinton came to a key battleground state Tuesday to make the case to female voters that she has a better agenda for their concerns and that Donald Trump has a history of disrespecting women. In a town hall event here, the Democratic nominee...
by Isabella Alvarenga & Anna Waters | Oct 4, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
FARMVILLE, Va. — Longwood University students were not required to be in class on Monday —they had an extended fall vacation. But many are on campus anyway, working long hours volunteering instead of sleeping in late on their break. Why? Because Tuesday night,...
by Marissa Page | Oct 4, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – U.S. and other foreign aid to southern Africa, which is suffering from food scarcity after the El Niño cycle last year, will not solve the region’s crisis unless effective governments are in put in place, a federal official and scholars said Tuesday....
by Benjamin Din | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Worries – real or imagined – about a potentially rigged election may be eased by an international election observation mission focusing on the November General Election in the U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said publicly that he...
by Rishika Dugyala | Oct 4, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON— The co-author of a 1987 book that cast Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a savvy businessman once again criticized Trump’s egotistical approach to politics Tuesday, joining with civil rights leaders to blast Trump for derogatory remarks about...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Journalists and partisans who rose at an ungodly hour Tuesday morning expecting Julian Assange to release a hyped data dump that could possibly damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign instead received a two-hour long Wikileaks commercial. Their only consolation...
by Darby Hopper | Oct 4, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Chinese renminbi’s recent designation as an International Monetary Fund reserve currency will change China’s relationship with emerging markets such as those in Latin America – but exactly how remains to be seen, a Hong Kong University professor...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 4, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Advanced economies will keep trudging along on a disappointing economic growth path, whereas developing economies should start to excel, the International Monetary Fund’s research director said Tuesday. “Global growth remains weak even though it...
by Kelly Norris | Oct 4, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to a room of retired military officials at an event Monday sponsored by The Retired American Warriors PAC in Dulles, Virginia. His comments regarding PTSD caught national attention with critics...
