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...
by Celena Chong | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016
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 wriggle out,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer Wednesday during a press conference at the Democratic...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Immigration
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Manuel Loaiza, 24, and his mother were some of the last people leaving a Marco Rubio rally Sunday night in Virginia Beach. Loaiza and his mom, who he said doesn’t speak English very well, are two of thousands of conservative Latinos across the...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 16, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to the Supreme Court Wednesday, and Republicans congressional leaders immediately called the move an attempt to help Democrats in the November...
