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...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Mar 1, 2011 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday defended the administration’s plan to increase spending on education by 11 percent in its budget proposal for next year. But he was pressed hard by Republicans, who say that the country does not have...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security commemorated its eighth anniversary Wednesday with a roundtable discussion featuring current Secretary Janet Napolitano and her two predecessors. Flanked by former secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff,...
by Alanna Autler | Mar 1, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON –Some governors said Tuesday they want to regain control over their Medicaid programs because President Obama’s landmark health care law will add unnecessary costs to their state budgets. On Tuesday Governors Haley Barbour, R-Miss., Gary Herbert R-Utah, and...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 23, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A gray limousine pulled up, and the mob lurched forward. Daouda Diabaté stepped out, and the drums sounded. Hugs and handshakes followed, until he took his seat on a couch bisecting Ivorian and American flags. Diabaté, the Ivory Coast’s newest...
by Peter Larson | Feb 23, 2011 | National Security, Politics
The joke at Gitmo used to be in order to win you have to lose. Take it from Air Force Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Davis presided over the prosecution of detainees from 2005 to 2007. He brought charges...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 23, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON–Education Secretary Arne Duncan pitched the administration’s 2012 education budget request to a roomful of mayors from around the nation Wednesday, emphasizing how increased funding for early childhood and adult education will address the concerns of...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 23, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — He has approval from the State Department, and an appointment with the White House to present his credentials. He also has the keys to the embassy and to two of his mission’s cars. But here’s what Daouda Diabaté won’t have as he becomes Ivory...
by Alanna Autler | Feb 23, 2011 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Under the budget cuts passed in the Republican-led House of Representatives last week, rural communities could lose $200 million in grants that help build accessible health care infrastructures, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank, said...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Feb 22, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he wouldn’t change a thing. When asked whether he’d do anything differently, the often-criticized Rumsfeld fell silent. Then he answered: “Ya know, I can’t think of anything.” The...
