by Mariana Alfaro | Jan 28, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Immigration experts warned Wednesday that Central American immigrants, targeted by recent deportation raids, are being sent to their deaths in the Northern Triangle countries – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The raids, started by the Obama...
by Shane McKeon | Jan 28, 2016 | Politics
BALTIMORE, Md. — A fired up Vice President Joe Biden called on U.S. House Democrats to do a better job selling the party’s platform to voters and to be clear about the differences with the Republicans.’ “We shouldn’t apologize for what we’re for, and we should point...
by Nick Hagar | Jan 28, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal research and development programs that aid innovative small businesses such as iRobot, should be renewed, experts said at a Senate committee hearing Thursday. The two r&d programs – nicknamed “America’s seed fund” – support small...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 28, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services suffers from serious systemic failures in protecting “unaccompanied alien children” from human trafficking, a Senate investigation says. “It’s intolerable that human trafficking, really modern day slavery,...
by Nick Hagar | Jan 28, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON – A new hit movie about the housing market collapse and 2008 financial crash explained complicated economic issues through humor, but The Big Short may have portrayed bankers as more aware of the impending disaster than they were, some financial experts...
by Celena Chong | Jan 27, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to leave the benchmark interest and discount rates untouched at 0.5 percent, but expects to keep raising rates gradually throughout the rest of 2016, the Fed announced Wednesday. The central bank froze the rate...
by Jacob Meschke | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In response to an apparent fourth nuclear test by North Korea, a House panel debated Wednesday possible solutions to the threat to national security posed by the isolated communist country. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the...
by Julia Jacobs | Jan 27, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Three European ambassadors warned against a rise of xenophobic sentiment on the continent at an event Wednesday marking a day of international Holocaust remembrance. An influx of refugees to France is fueling anti-immigrant sentiment, including calls to...
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,...
