by Tyler Kendall | Mar 21, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Talmesha Richards remembered being in third grade and thinking math was “the worst thing in the whole wide world.” But she went on to receive bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and chemical engineering and a PhD in cellular molecular medicine. “I...
by Natalie Escobar | Mar 20, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON— A half-century after passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act and in the wake of federal reforms in public education, test scores for black and white students’ scores do not look much different than those in the 1960s. In 1966, a government-commissioned...
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,...
by Alex Lederman | Mar 19, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s definition of terrorism is not hard to find. It’s posted on the FBI’s website. Terrorism needs to involve dangerous acts to human life that violate federal or state law. It must appear to be aimed at intimidating the civilian...
by Tyler Kendall and Ethan Cohen | Mar 18, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON– When Rachael Strickland found out in 2012 that her family’s school district was participating in a pilot program to store and manage student data, she was shocked. “Gone are the days when we had the paper files down in a cabinet in the school’s main...
by Isabella Gutierrez | Mar 18, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – When Apple said no to the FBI order to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, a debate between privacy advocates and national security officials erupted. But the tension between those two interests is as old as the Bill of Rights....
by Drew Gerber | Mar 18, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Cybersecurity became a very public top priority for the federal government after the 2014 theft of 21 million records from the Office of Personnel Management, but government bureaucracy itself may be a privacy threat to the rest of the country – and...
by Alex Lederman | Mar 18, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republican senators said Thursday the Obama administration has failed to combat nuclear proliferation, especially in Russia, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan, but two State Department officials said the bigger threat is nuclear weapons in the hands of...
by Celena Chong | Mar 17, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump may have blazed through the March 15 primaries capturing four states, but he is a “straightjacket that Senate Republicans won’t be able to wiggle off,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer Wednesday during a press conference at the Democratic...
by Geordan Tilley | Mar 17, 2016 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ big win in Michigan emphasized just how important international trade is in the presidential campaign. While the Trans-Pacific Partnership awaits ratification in Congress, Sanders is campaigning on his opposition to the deal and the...
by Jasper Scherer and Noah Fromson | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON – The failure of a 2008 program called Google Flu Trends was an early lesson in the limitations of big data in health and life sciences research: the ability of computers to analyze huge sets of information is limited by how researchers use it. The Google...
by Jacob Meschke | Mar 17, 2016 | Campaign 2016
[rev_slider alias=”bernierally”][/rev_slider] On the eve of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ upset victory in the Michigan Democrat primary, the fiery self-described “democratic socialist” was where he has been throughout the election—on a college campus. On...
