by Patrick Svitek | Feb 28, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Tuesday that the United States will lose its standing as a world power if almost $500 billion in spending cuts are piled on top of nearly the same amount of savings already proposed by President Barack Obama over the...
by Ariel Rothfield | Feb 28, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Hilary Clinton defended the State Department’s tight 2013 budget Tuesday, saying the agency had to make “difficult trade-offs and painful cuts.” “The request represents an increase of less than the rate of inflation and just over 1...
by Shirley Li | Feb 28, 2012 | Business
WASHINGTON – Like most students in Morocco, 18-year-old Lina El Yakhloufi wanted to work for a company – not start one. But after she attended Injaz Morocco, a program recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative that teaches high school students how to start and run...
by Mattias Gugel | Feb 28, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats on the House Budget Committee Tuesday agreed on one thing during a two-hour hearing: Health care for the elderly and government-funded retirement benefits are on an unsustainable path. But they couldn’t seem to agree on how to...
by Ed Demaria | Feb 28, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on a sticky international law question with corporate personhood implications that found the United States and some of its major allies on different sides. In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., petitioners argued...
by David Uberti | Feb 28, 2012 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The September attack in Yemen that used Predator drones to kill al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki was the latest high-profile strike showing that future wars could be remote-controlled. The key to the airstrike wasn’t the Hellfire missiles that took out...
by Rachel Morello | Feb 28, 2012 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Cheryl Chafos walks her 10-year-old son Zachary to the bus stop at 6:45 every morning. His ride to school is an hour and fifteen minutes long. Soon after, Chafos helps her toddler into the family car so she can drive a third son, Andrew, 11, to his...
by Edwin Rios | Feb 28, 2012 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The best course of action for tomorrow’s Air Force under President Obama’s new budget is to trade size for quality, top brass told a key House committee Tuesday. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz testified...
by Patrick Svitek | Feb 27, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A new poll shows President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over the Republican frontrunners to double digits, hinting that the GOP presidential candidates have been bruised by a grueling nomination battle. In the George Washington University-Politico...
by Patrick Svitek | Feb 24, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democrats reignited the contraception policy debate with a high-profile hearing Thursday that landed Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke in the center of a national dialogue on reproductive health care. Fluke was excluded from a similar...
by Mattias Gugel | Feb 22, 2012 | Business, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. may be at the beginning of a “manufacturing job renaissance,” but industry growth will only remain a “trickle” if new policies to incubate innovation are not put in place, according to fellows at The Brookings Institution. Panelists on Wednesday...
by James Arkin | Feb 22, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON — In his time as a student teacher at a struggling Cincinnati public school, Jacob Towner led one class where his 16 students kept the peace and showed promise in the classroom. Then, Towner had to combine that group with another...
