by Lauren Caruba | Feb 18, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The medical device excise tax, part of the Affordable Care Act, is hurting jobs, investment and research in the health-care industry, a new survey suggests. Since the beginning of 2013, medical companies have fired 14,000 workers and declined to hire an...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 18, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery fuses art and technology in an unusual homage to American history. Wearing Google Glass, Google’s latest toy billed as the first “wearable computer,” visitors simply look at a certain area...
by Ellen Garrison | Feb 18, 2014 | Business
WASHINGTON — A team of middle schoolers from Rochester, Mich., beat out hundreds of other students on Tuesday to win a $7,500 prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to Space Camp by building the best futuristic city design. The first place winner, Michigan’s St....
by Sara Olstad | Feb 18, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A life-size wax figure of former first lady Nancy Reagan was to be unveiled at Madame Tussauds DC on Tuesday morning. The figure is meant to capture Reagan as she looked in 1985 at the outset of President Ronald Reagan’s second term. It is dressed...
by Jessica Floum | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The world is waiting for the United States to ratify treaties to that would close global ports to illegal fishing vessels, witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. Illegal fishing– using illegal gear, failing to report catch...
by Jeanne Kuang | Feb 12, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Wednesday would prohibit disciplinary and safety practices in schools that result in children being locked alone in rooms or physically restrained, practices the Senate education committee says happen...
by Sara Olstad | Feb 12, 2014 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Nearly 30 people have been killed at schools in the United States since the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., according to new data released by two gun control groups. Two Democratic lawmakers and members of Moms...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 12, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON—Five years after the Great Recession stalled the American economy, senior citizen entrepreneurship might be what the United States needs to kick the slow recovery into another gear. Now, the Senate is trying to figure out what needs to be done help “encore...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 12, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The federal government needs to invest in more preventative measures to protect the countryagainst natural disasters, senators said Wednesday. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and Sen. Ron Johnson,...
by Christophe Haubursin | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Like wine connoisseurs judging the best Bordeaux, a panel of judges with more than a century of taste-testing knowledge among them, named Curtis, Neb. Wednesday as having the best drinking water in rural America. The annual competition — the National...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A panel of Middle East policy experts say the growing jihadist movement in Egypt poses an increasing threat to the United States. The experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday that terrorist and insurgent groups are thriving in the...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Almost a month after President Barack Obama called for an end to the National Security Agency’s practice of storing telephone metadata, some senators said Wednesday they feared it would not be enough and pressed for action by Congress. The Senate...
