by Nirmal Mulaikal | Mar 21, 2019 | Education, Featured
BALTIMORE, Md. — Public school principal Rachel Brunson has seen every infrastructure problem that a large urban school can have. But only one stumped her — the “dirt room.” “It’s just nothing but dirt,” said Brunson. A Baltimore native, Brunson has been principal for...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The six senators are running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president are on the campaign trail railing against big corporations in Brooklyn and pumping iron in Iowa, but they also are creating legislative records in the Senate that often will...
by Brooke Fowler | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Sexual assaults of members of the military have risen in recent years, and some female veterans say they need better mental health services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which already has implemented some new treatment plans for mental health...
by Nirmal Mulaikal and Samantha Handler | Mar 21, 2019 | Education, Featured
BALTIMORE — Disparities in funding for education infrastructure are evident in Maryland. In Frederick, the school district was able to raise money through state and local funds to build a new $114 million high school. But 50 miles away, Dr. Martin Luther King...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2020 to eliminate a program that offers government and nonprofit workers a way to have their federal education loan forgiven would make it harder for nonprofits and government agencies to attract employees,...
by Justin Askenazy | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – In August 2015, Eric McGinnis was arrested for violently attacking his girlfriend. A judge issued a protective order that said McGinnis could not own a gun for two years. Less than a year later, the Dallas native tried to purchase a gun, but a...
by Heena Srivastava and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON –– Gail Sasse gave birth to her son, Joey, in late February, but she didn’t feel close to the baby until recently. Joey spent the first days of his life in the NICU after he began experiencing tremors — a symptom of neonatal abstinence syndrome. He...
by Cameron Peters | Mar 20, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Despite at least 21 states being the target of Russian hacking in the 2016 election, experts say that there is no evidence that a foreign power has interfered in the outcome of a U.S. election then or since. But election cybersecurity experts say 2020 is...
by Samantha Handler | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Most of the Supreme Court justices Wednesday said they will consider the history of racial bias in jury selection by the prosecutor in a Mississippi man’s murder conviction and death sentence. Justice Elena Kagan strongly questioned whether Mississippi...
by Samantha Handler | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Departing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency should remain committed to his fight against vaping at a Brookings Institution event on Tuesday, saying its benefits in helping adults quit smoking should not come “at the...
by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — NASA on Tuesday unveiled new discoveries from its first asteroid sample retrieval mission, notably that the asteroid the scientists planned on sampling is a rare “active asteroid.” According to the mission’s principal investigator Dante Lauretta, an...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON — Holding tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon accountable for how they collect and story users’ data as well as how they dominate the industry should be done through oversight by federal agencies rather than sweeping data privacy laws like those...
