by Dan Waldman | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
Video by Kelly Norris/MNS WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump can still pull out a win on Nov. 8, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace said Wednesday at a panel hosted by the Washington Economic Club. Wallace, who moderated the third presidential debate, speculated...
by Eunice Lee | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to call Congress into a special session for the express purpose of repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if he wins next week and takes office as president in January. His...
by Jason Mast | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
With Election Day nearing, the major party candidates have set the themes for their campaigns: Republican Donald Trump calls himself the tough-on-crime, law-and-order candidate, while Hillary Clinton paints herself as the reform-minded Democrat working to make inroads...
by Jason Mast | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Rev. Anthony Spearman was standing in line for early voting with 25 to 50 black parishioners recently in Greensboro when he says a white man started shoving through them. “Hillary for Prison,” he shouted. “Get out of my way.” Spearman’s experience...
by Darby Hopper | Nov 1, 2016 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON—China remains the undisputed leader of growth in renewable energy worldwide, but that growth comes with a risk that Asia may end up with more energy capacity than it can use, according to the new annual report of the International Energy Agency. The...
by Ben Din, Rishika Dugyala & Fallon Schlossman | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
CARY, N.C. — It’s hard to find empty space in the cozy Democratic field office here, where the walls are adorned with signs promoting Democratic candidates across the ballot and messages of support for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “I’m with...
by David Gernon & Ross Krasner | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
DURHAM, N.C. — Every four years, College Republicans around the country rally around the GOP nominee for president. But this year, Donald Trump has turned the tradition into a moment of reckoning, pitting club members against club members and chapters against chapters...
by Darby Hopper and Marissa Page | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
BOULDER, Colo. – In this battleground state, young voters can be the key to a candidate’s success. In 2012 and 2008, they turned out in droves and Barack Obama carried the state that had gone red in the three prior elections; in 2012, the voting rate for 18- to...
by David Gernon | Nov 1, 2016 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A book released Tuesday details how the political climate today in many ways resembles the time immediately preceding the Franklin Roosevelt presidency and the opportunities that presents American democracy. Sabeel Rashman, a former official at the...
by Lauren Bally | Nov 1, 2016 | Living, Topics
WASHINGTON- African Americans have the lowest net worth income in the Washington metropolitan area, according to a study released Tuesday. The Urban Institute, an economic and social policy research think tank, detailing the racial wealth gap within the metro area...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Although both presidential candidates have been tough on China over trade, U.S.-China relations have not been damaged by the campaign rhetoric yet, China experts say, but that could change after Nov. 8 because Donald Trump represents a break with current...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Nov 1, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON —As Kenya continues its fight against Al-Shabaab, the Kenyan government and media need to better understand the role of female extremists to create a more effective counterterrorism strategy, experts say. Dr. Fredrick Ogenga, a visiting scholar at the...
