by Jacob Meschke and Natalie Escobar | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — It’s 12:01 a.m. on day 181 after receiving an email from a friend. For the past six months, the government would have needed a search warrant to read the contents of this email. Now it’s fair game. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 17, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution” could be losing steam after a string of disappointing losses in Tuesday night’s primaries. As the gap in the delegate count widens between the Vermont senator and Hillary Clinton, experts say his chances of...
by Julia Jacobs | Mar 17, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON — Despite echoes of support at Donald Trump rallies for his plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a state that would play host to Trump’s trademark construction project was among the few that rejected him on Super Tuesday. That state was Texas,...
by Alex Duner, Nick Hagar, Nicolas Rivero and Geordan Tilley | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics
Want to read this story on the dark web?—The dark web might seem scary and complicated, but it’s actually quite easy to get started using the Tor web browser to go onto the dark web and protect your privacy. We published this story as a Tor hidden service — a...
by Alex Lederman | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON – The chicken sandwich you had for lunch seemed like a simple meal. But there were many steps to get the chicken from the farm to your plate – and most of them were potential targets for cyberattacks. The bird began its six-week life on a factory farm. It...
by Tyler Kendall | Mar 17, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—When some of the nation’s most powerful women got together Thursday at the Treasury Department, they meant business. The Women in Finance and Technology Symposium addressed improving financial inclusion for women, closing the gender gap in science and...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 17, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressmen held nothing back Thursday in their scathing attacks on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for doing too little to solve the Flint, Mich. water crisis, which left many of the city’s 99,000 residents with...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Despite the many surprises of the 2016 presidential campaigns, most agreed there was one sure thing: If Michael Bloomberg ran for president, he would not win. However, a Bloomberg administration almost certainly would have had improving public health as a...
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 Shane McKeon | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON – Asian Americans aren’t the largest voting bloc, but a new group aligned with the Democratic Party says they could be a deciding factor in battleground states in November. But they need to increase their turnout. The Asian American and Pacific...
by Geordan Tilley | Mar 16, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Valentine’s Day this year was less than sweet for Google. For the first time since it began testing autonomous cars in 2009, one of Google’s cars caused an accident. It was the 17th accident for a Google Autonomous Vehicle in California, but...
by Allyson Chiu | Mar 16, 2016 | Energy, Environment
WASHINGTON– Clean energy is a hot topic that’s about to get even hotter. Investment in geothermal energy is a growing global trend, but development in the United States has stalled due to limited incentives and cheaper energy options, geothermal experts said...
