by Mitchell Armentrout | Mar 19, 2013 | Immigration
WASHINGTON–Advocates say that behind the bright lights and nostalgia of the traveling fair and carnival industry are foreign workers on temporary visas who face wage deception, health risks and intimidation, charges that industry leaders vehemently reject. The...
by Fritz T. Burgher | Mar 18, 2013 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON – Vern Jantzen has spent most of his life on his family’s farm in Plymouth, Neb. After going away to college and receiving his degree in agricultural economics, he returned home to take over his family’s 307-acre farm in the rolling hills of southeastern...
by Catherine Reid | Mar 18, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON–Tracy and Matt Keil’s two-year-old twins love playing on their father’s wheelchair, one on his lap, the other hanging on the back. “They know daddy’s in a wheelchair, but they don’t know he’s any different,” Tracy said. On Feb. 24, 2007, while...
by Tara Longardner & Olivia Marcus | Mar 18, 2013 | National Security
WASHINGTON — After Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her Air Force recruiter, she stayed silent. She also did not file a report after her technical school instructor at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi sexually assaulted her out of fear of losing her...
by Rachel Janik | Mar 18, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON—The Senate Judiciary Committee last week sent a sweeping assault weapons ban to the Senate floor for a full vote, but all signs point to a quick death for the controversial gun control legislation. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., drafted the legislation in...
by Audrey Cheng | Mar 18, 2013 | Politics
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by Summer Delaney | Mar 13, 2013 | Living
WASHINGTON—As the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics looked toward their new leader Pope Francis I on the Vatican balcony, American Catholics appear divided on the direction they want for their church under a new pontiff. According to a Pew Research Center survey last...
by Tara Longardner & Olivia Marcus | Mar 13, 2013 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON–The announcement this month that researchers had effectively cured a toddler born with HIV was considered a breakthrough in the battle against AIDS. But for most of the approximately 330,000 babies born with the virus every year, experts say the...
by Catherine Reid | Mar 13, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON—In 2009 Anna Kalmbacher and her husband Gabriel adopted two boys from Uganda after spending time there doing missionary work. “You can’t go into it blindly or else you’re going to be taken advantage of, or the child is going to be taken advantage of,”...
by Cathaleen Chen | Mar 13, 2013 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — When Delali Dagadu found herself jobless, almost homeless and facing deportation after working five years as a career counselor, the Liberian native filed for asylum to avoid deportation and a return to her tribe, where she feared becoming a victim...
by Stephanie Yang | Mar 13, 2013 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The U.S. government has declared 50 percent more national disasters on average over the last 10 years when compared to the previous decade, but the nation’s main disaster relief agency is about to lose more than $1 billion in federal funding. How much it...
by Summer Delaney | Mar 13, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON –Twilight’s Ashley Greene, the latest celebrity to hit Capitol Hill, helped launch the first “branding” symbol to combat domestic violence and sexual assault Wednesday, saying young victims need to better understand how to stand up for themselves. The...
