by Roshan Nebhrajani | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- When it comes to Afghanistan, the number to stay focused on is 2014, experts say. Now entering its tenth year, the war in Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam last summer as the longest in U.S. history. While the Obama administration will begin withdrawing some...
by Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
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by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The head of the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce the agency’s spending by 12.5 percent in 2012 in an appearance in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “This FY 2012...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — With upheaval spreading across the Middle East, now is the wrong time for proposed cuts to the State Department budget, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. A 16 percent hit to State Department funding in the 2011 continuing budget...
by Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
In order to create jobs and expand the economy, panelists at the Center for American Progress argued Wednesday for reforms to the American model of capitalism—a path also needed, they said, to counteract executives earning billions and potential elimination of the...
by Elena Schneider | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Citing an urgent need to curb the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid, members of the Senate Finance Committee grilled two government health fraud experts Wednesday on the effectiveness and spending habits of their organizations. “As the number of...
by Peter Larson | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The military descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, touting national security as grounds to stress the demand for passing long-awaited 2011 spending legislation. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike...
by Elena Schneider | Mar 1, 2011 | Business
Chevy Chase, Md. — In any given day, Dr. Tiffini Lucas may examine a wailing, feverish two-year old, advise a senior on exercises for arthritic pain and remove an atypical mole from a middle-aged mother’s back. Lucas is a primary care physician. In 2005, she...
by Alanna Autler | Mar 1, 2011 | Health & Science
The day before Mac Greene died, he visited a wound doctor. Greene had some bursitis on his elbow—a fluid-filled sac underneath his skin. But without access to Greene’s medical records, the specialist couldn’t treat Greene. He especially couldn’t see that Greene needed...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Overcoming the United States’ next Sputnik moment—the first came when the Soviets shocked 1950’s America by rocketing a tiny satellite into space—may depend on a brand new idea. The shiny new goal at the end of the current global technology race...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Imagine walking down independence Avenue late one Friday night. The time is way past when you would expect anyone to be working. Yet, as you walk by government building after government building, you notice that just about every single light on. The...
by Alex Campbell | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a break Tuesday from “around-the-clock” work on the situation in Libya to defend that work’s importance on Capitol Hill. “Marathon diplomacy” has led to “quick, aggressive...
