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...
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...
