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...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 14, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Monday overwhelmingly approved two resolutions for the Syrian government and the Islamic State to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity and are expected to be passed by the Senate. “The atrocities committed...
by Celena Chong | Mar 14, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The terrorist threat to the U.S. is not as dire as national security officials say, and Americans are being scared into believing they are in more danger than the facts suggest, some experts say. “The truth is, you are 3,000 to 5,000 times more likely to...
by Nick Hagar | Mar 14, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — The nation’s chief technology officer called Monday for top tech talent to join a White House team in modernizing government. “It’s an honor to get to work in the federal government on behalf of the American people,” said Megan Smith, who has served...
by Alex Lederman | Mar 14, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Although the restrictive media landscape in the Arab world has shifted since the Arab Spring with the rise of social media and more diverse television coverage, Arab countries also have adjusted their crackdown tactics while media polarization has...
