by Julia Jacobs | Jan 28, 2016 | Topics
BALTIMORE — Days before the presidential primary season begins with the Iowa caucuses, the Democrats now occupying the West Wing expressed disdain for the conservatism of the candidates jockeying for the Republican ticket. At the House Democratic retreat in Baltimore...
by Allyson Chiu | Jan 28, 2016 | Energy, National Security
WASHINGTON– Nuclear power plants need to improve security systems to safeguard against non-traditional terrorist attacks, but that’s challenging for developing countries, nuclear security experts said Thursday. Nuclear power has grown in popularity in some...
by Mariana Alfaro | Jan 28, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON — Companies’ trade secrets, which are vital to their growth, would be better protected from industrial spies under a bill creating federal standards to prosecute violators while still maintaining the integrity of the information. The Defend Trade...
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...
