by Noah Fromson | Jan 27, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — While most Americans support doctor-assisted suicide, it is still bad public policy, a conservative Christian leader said Wednesday. Catherine Glenn Foster of the Alliance Defending Freedom told an audience at the libertarian Cato Institute that...
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 27, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — Four rare children’s books were unveiled as digitized editions on a new storytelling app at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. Children from the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center experienced the tales for the first time on Cricket Media’s Story...
by Ethan Cohen | Jan 27, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Every four years, the refrain arises: Why start the presidential primary contests in Iowa? Campaign experts Wednesday had lots of reasons: It is politically if not demographically diverse. It’s small enough that candidates can reach a lot of voters. It...
by Jasper Scherer | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he plans to introduce legislation to repeal a provision in the big 2016 spending bill that effectively ended the ban on the use of Russian-made rocket engines. McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Armed Services Committee,...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Russia should collaborate with the United States in upcoming United Nations negotiations to help resolve the Syrian crisis and present united opposition to the Islamic State, a member of a Russian research team said Wednesday. “Without a political...
by Natalie Escobar | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Democratic countries’ inability to deal with the fallout from the Syrian civil war, including the “unprecedented numbers” of refugees and rise of terrorist groups like the Islamic State, has contributed to a decade-long decline in global freedom, according...
by Nick Hagar | Jan 26, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — On May 6, 2010, a large mutual fund trader initiated an order to sell more than $4 billion of E-Mini S&P futures contracts in 20 minutes. The sudden imbalance created a rush to sell, leading investors to trade about two billion shares between...
by Alex Duner | Jan 26, 2016 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — A 25-year-old architect’s design has been selected for the World War I memorial, which planners envision as a contemplative and educational space honoring American members of the military who fought in The Great War. On Tuesday at the National Press Club,...
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 26, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – In a symbolic gesture to show the world how close it is to destruction, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday “with utter dismay” that its Doomsday Clock will remain at three minutes to midnight. “This is a metaphor for how close we are...
by Isabella Gutierrez | Jan 20, 2016 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Even though the Islamic State has suffered territorial losses in recent months, Americans should not have false hopes that the terrorist threat in the United States is diminished. In fact, the opposite may be true, a Princeton scholar said Wednesday....
by Erin Bacon | Jan 20, 2016 | Politics
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Donald Trump has joined a growing list of Republican presidential candidates courting the young conservative vote at Liberty University. Around 9,000 students listened to Trump speak Monday for an MLK Day event at the conservative Christian...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 20, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices questioned lawyers Wednesday about whether tribal sovereignty over Indian reservations can be lost to non-Indian settlements in a case that could affect the territorial boundaries of Indian reservations and tribes’ rights to...
