by Alex Duner | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — If Rep. Pete Sessions has his way, the federal government will recognize and promote a new artistic medium: magic. That’s because on Monday Sessions introduced a bill , which “recognizes magic as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure.”...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 15, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Negotiations underway in Switzerland may bring peace to Syria, but the refugee crisis caused by the five-year civil war could threaten the stability of its neighbors in the Middle East. The U.S. is the largest provider of humanitarian aid, but some...
by Jacob Meschke | Mar 15, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy said Tuesday that protesters at campaign rallies do not pose a significant threat to the Secret Service in carrying out its duty to protect presidential candidates. Demonstrators should be allowed to exercise...
by Geordan Tilley | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
[rev_slider alias=”friendsofireland”] WASHINGTON — Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny joined President Barack Obama at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday. It was Speaker Paul Ryan’s first time hosting the tradition. At the...
by Celena Chong | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Alan Gross said he only saw the sun for 20 minutes during the first year of being shuttered in a Cuban prison. Gross, 66, was a contractor under the U.S. Agency for International Development, tasked to improve Internet access within a single Jewish...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
[rev_slider alias=”puertorico”][/rev_slider] WASHINGTON — Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” and several New York members of Congress offered a proposal Tuesday to fix a quirk in federal law that bars Puerto Rico from...
by Noah Fromson | Mar 15, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Zika researchers need to shift focus from male to female mosquitoes because mating could be the key to controlling the virus, an expert said Tuesday. Scientists have been working on genetically modifying the aedes aegypti mosquito,...
by Alex Duner | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Digital tools have shaped how the government stays accountable to the American people in 2016 On Tuesday at the Commerce Department, advocates for government openness said publishing data and maintaining electronic records are a driver of transparency and...
by Tyler Kendall | Mar 15, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON– Thousands of New York City public school students are about to get their hands on what first lady Michelle Obama joked Monday is “the hardest ticket to get on the planet.” First lady Michelle Obama welcomed the cast from the hit Broadway...
by Natalie Escobar and Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 14, 2016 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON– Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is officially dropping the “acting” from his job title. King was confirmed as Education Secretary Monday night in a 49-40 Senate vote, following months of stark criticism by lawmakers of President...
by Nicolas Rivero | Mar 14, 2016 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — A newly discovered species, an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sheds light on how tyrannosaurs evolved from small man-sized predators into the iconic dinosaur we know from Jurassic Park, scientists announced Monday. Smithsonian paleobiologist...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 14, 2016 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Henry Louis Gates was getting death threats. It was July 2009. Days earlier, the Harvard professor had returned home from China, where he was researching Yo-Yo Ma’s ancestry for a new documentary. When he got to his house in Cambridge, Mass., he...
