by Haley Hinkle | Feb 23, 2015 | Health & Science, Living
By Haley Hinkle WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to launch a new system for analyzing the effectiveness of medical devices after they hit the market and are put in use across the country. The system, planned in collaboration with Brookings...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 23, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole argued Monday the case should be dismissed on the grounds that defense officials illegally forced the military judges to move to...
by Tanner Howard | Feb 20, 2015 | Topics
WASHINGTON – Ellington Turner and his mother, Marlece, began to cry. The seventh-grader had just gotten word that his school, MacFarland Middle School in Washington, D.C.’s fast-gentrifying Petworth neighborhood, would be closed following the 2012-2013 school year....
by Shelbie Bostedt | Feb 18, 2015 | Topics
By Shelbie Bostedt WASHINGTON – The State Department and Environmental Protection Agency launched a program Wednesday to monitor the air quality of countries around the world, citing China’s acknowledgement of its pollution as a result of U.S. monitoring as a success...
by Tanner Howard | Feb 18, 2015 | Education
By Tanner Howard WASHINGTON – The number of students in afterschool programs has increased to more than 10 million in the past 10 years. But a proposal to change how federal afterschool funding is allocated could jeopardize some of those programs and make it more...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 18, 2015 | Education
By Josh Rosenblat WASHINGTON — Progressive education and civil rights leaders reaffirmed their opposition to recent GOP-sponsored bills to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind act, citing educational equality as the most important aspect of any new law. In a...
by Bailey Williams | Feb 18, 2015 | Business
By Bailey Williams WASHINGTON — Preventing independent international airlines from competing with U.S. and European Union approved airlines could inhibit American economic growth, advocates of open-skies agreements said Wednesday. Five representatives from various...
by Nancy Wang | Feb 18, 2015 | Business
By Nancy Wang When Megan Smith was asked to leave her comfortable life as a high-ranking executive at Google in Silicon Valley, she jumped at the opportunity. “This is a place to do extraordinary service,” says Smith, the Chief Technology Officer of the United States,...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 18, 2015 | Health & Science
By Jesse Kirsch WASHINGTON – A growing Chinese space program could challenge American preeminence in the great unknown and cause a shift in strategic balance. Experts, testifying Wednesday before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, warned that...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 18, 2015 | Living
By Madeline Fox WASHINGTON – Sexual violence in war-torn regions is a known problem, but less attention is paid to the severe issue of the lingering peacetime gender inequality that it reinforces, said London professor Jelke Boesten. In a panel at the U.S. Institute...
by Olivia Marcus | Feb 18, 2015 | Business
By Olivia Marcus WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — When it comes to the battle over net neutrality, enemy lines seem to be linked to money. “Campaign contributions don’t tell the whole story, but they tell a lot of the story,” said Bill Allison of the campaign finance...
by Astrid Goh | Feb 18, 2015 | Business
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON—Growth in the Turkish economy could be stunted if it fails to modernize its 20-year-old customs union with the European Union, experts said at a Brookings panel Wednesday morning. Turkey, a country of almost 76 million people, which had...
