by Jack Corrigan | Feb 8, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February has raised questions for the US Senate Homeland Security Committee, with some senators worried that the plan may pose a threat to national security. The...
by Drew Gerber | Feb 8, 2016 | Health & Science, National Security
WASHINGTON — While military treatment facilities, like Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, were created to train medical officers for deployment, the treatment of military members and their families is also a priority for the facilities, according to...
by Allyson Chiu | Feb 8, 2016 | Health & Science
Testing genetically modified mitochondrial DNA in people is now ethically permissible, but the scientific community is concerned about how gene manipulation will impact society, biology experts said Wednesday. A new report from the Institute of Medicine, now part of...
by Nick Hagar | Feb 8, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — He’s starting out with six non-traditional “micro-schools,” but entrepreneur Max Ventilla wants to bring education up to date with personalized instruction and data-based performance analytics. Ventilla, founder of AltSchool, talked Monday about his...
by Mariana Alfaro | Feb 8, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — When 12-year-old Joel Salazar lived in El Salvador, he was beaten by gang members on his way to school for failing to pay “la renta” — extortion money. His mother, who already had fled to the United States, told Joel to leave the...
by Noah Fromson | Feb 4, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — U.S. judges overturned a record number of wrongful convictions in 2015 due to increased spending to investigate allegations of false convictions, including for special investigative units in district attorney offices of major cities, a report by the...
by Drew Gerber | Feb 4, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — In the midst of a deepening investigation of the ongoing public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, U.S. House Republicans Wednesday looked past local and state failures and focused on indicting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While members of the...
by Natalie Escobar | Feb 3, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON- Tighter restrictions for access to federal food assistance programs will jeopardize the health of low-income people who struggle to get healthy food, witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing said Tuesday. Representatives of nonprofit groups receiving...
by Jasper Scherer | Feb 3, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats on the Senate environment committee clashed with each other and an Interior Department official who testified on Wednesday for the need to fill regulation gaps in coal mining near streams. Joseph Pizarchik, director of the Office...
by Celena Chong | Feb 3, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Colombia is at the brink of ending a decades-long battle against the FARC guerrillas, making the country a great investment for the U.S., Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told business leaders at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday. It...
by Nick Hagar | Feb 3, 2016 | Politics
With the wild ride of the Iowa caucuses behind us, it’s clear that few accurately predicted the outcome on the Republican side. Most of the major pollsters missed calling the Cruz’s victory: FiveThirtyEight didn’t see it, nor RealClearPolitics nor even the vaunted Des...
by Tyler Kendall and Celena Chong | Feb 3, 2016 | Business
Tech CEOs are much more interested in a potential presidential bid by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg than throwing their support behind Hillary Clinton, according to one expert who tracks the industry. Greg Ferenstein’s new e-book, “The Age of Optimists: A...
