by Jason Mast | Sep 21, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — House Republicans accused the Obama administration of attempting to subvert the law and also congressional authority Wednesday during a hearing on a new law that replaced No Child Left Behind. Democrats charged that Republicans were trying to...
by Kelly Norris | Sep 21, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Mylan CEO Heather Bresch on Wednesday once again defended her company’s EpiPen pricing, which had reached $608.61 for a two-pack of the epinephrine auto-injector, telling a skeptical House committee that a generic version at half the price should be...
by Rishika Dugyala | Sep 21, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON — The presidential candidates should emphasize an economic agenda that cuts across income levels, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday. “Americans aren’t just worried about their future, they are also angry — angry that too often, Washington...
by David Fishman | Sep 21, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The European Union urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to block a bill that would allow survivors of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, calling it a rolling back of the principle of sovereign immunity that could lead to reciprocal action....
by Darby Hopper | Sep 21, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders “should be ashamed” of their record on voting rights laws and should stop blocking Democratic proposals to reduce discrimination at the polls, Senate Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin said Wednesday. Rep. John...
by Andrew Merica & Ben Din | Sep 21, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be a “dangerous” and unfit commander-in-chief because he has never paid attention to national security issues, a group of retired generals and admirals said Wednesday “Donald Trump is not...
by Ethan Cohen | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama mentioned House Speaker Paul Ryan only once in his last State of the Union address – when he raised their shared goal of tackling poverty. The two men don’t agree on much. But the idea of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, a...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 27, 2016 | Campaign 2016
When it comes to the Apple-FBI battle, the Republican and Democratic candidates for president are generally of two minds: a pair of Republicans side with the FBI; the others are more ambivalent. No one sides with Apple unequivocally. Republicans Donald Trump and Texas...
by Isa Gutierrez, Erin Bacon and Sabrina Rodriquez | Mar 27, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON – Democrats are often praised for their cutting-edge data collection techniques but the massive databases they use also have created problems. The centralized collection leaves years of information vulnerable to misuse, analysts say. The exclusive use of...
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...
