by Tara Longardner & Olivia Marcus | Jan 9, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON – International officials believe that not enough is being said about sex and reproduction in the on-going discussion about improving the planet. The Environmental Change and Security Program, a group that studies environment, health and population...
by Tom Meyer | Jan 9, 2013 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON– Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin called Wednesday for flexibility from the federal government as states begin implementing President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. Citing the example of a health care program in her state that she believes is...
by Stephanie Yang | Jan 9, 2013 | Politics
Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman and Josh Gad discuss the show’s relatable family element. Gideon Resnick/MedillMartha MacIsaac (Becca Gilchrist, the president’s daughter) and Andre Holland (White House press secretary Marshall Malloy) talk challenges of playing...
by Megan Neunan | Mar 15, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, did not like what Veterans’ Affairs had to say to Sandra Strickland, a homeless U.S. Army veteran, when she contacted them for help. “You got a list of shelters. ‘Here it is. See you later?’” he asked Strickland of...
by Edwin Rios | Mar 14, 2012 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In war, one knows his enemy. In cyber, the enemy is often anonymous. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he worries about the irrational, non-nation groups that have investment in cyber capabilities. Though the...
by Patrick Svitek | Mar 14, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON — Students and teachers at Stuart-Hobson Middle School wrapped up their school day Wednesday with a stern lesson on bullying from some of the country’s strongest voices on the topic. The pupils and their teachers attended an early screening of...
by Chris Kirk | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is on a mission to end subsidies for big oil companies. “Right now, $4 billion of your tax dollars — $4 billion — subsidizes the oil industry every year,” he said in New Hampshire earlier this month. “Now,...
by Safiya Merchant | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – In the 2012 election cycle, one demographic has caught the eye of the Republican presidential candidates, President Barack Obama and the mainstream media — for better and for worse. Many analysts think Hispanic voters are the key to the outcome of...
by Edwin Rios | Mar 14, 2012 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In the film Charlie Wilson’s War, a U. S. congressman is stunned when his colleagues on Capitol Hill shift the discussion away from Afghanistan just as the Soviet Union invade the country. On Wednesday, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., advanced the...
by Mattias Gugel | Mar 14, 2012 | National Security
WASHINGTON — After a laid-back night eating hot dogs and watching NCAA basketball in Dayton, Ohio, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron focused on their countries’ “rock-solid alliance” on the second day of Cameron’s official visit to the...
by Megan Neunan | Mar 14, 2012 | Education
WASHINTON – Esther Owolabi was in the seventh grade when her dad, a veteran Chicago schools teacher, repeated his principal’s comment from a faculty meeting: “Not all of these kids can be Barack Obama, not all these kids can be president. You need some cab...
by James Arkin | Mar 14, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON – Maryland teacher Damian DiCamillo was surprised when he first saw the government’s new report on the opportunity gap in public education – not by his school’s impressive achievement numbers but by the reaction they received. Seventy-two percent of...