by Preston R. Michelson | Feb 11, 2015 | Education
By Preston R. Michelson WASHINGTON — Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president, urged higher education leaders Wednesday to get behind President Barack Obama’s proposal to make two years of community college free. “We need you,” she said at the...
by Bailey Williams | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Bailey Williams WASHINGTON–House Republicans pressed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro Wednesday to admit that the Federal Housing Administration doesn’t have enough capital reserves, but Castro was adamant that the mortgage insurer was on...
by Olivia Marcus | Feb 11, 2015 | Business, Politics
By Olivia Marcus WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., turned red with anger Wednesday. “You talk about waterboarding, this is waterboarding at its worst,” he said. But Kelly wasn’t talking about torture. He wasn’t even at a...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Jesse Kirsch WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder presented 22 public servants with the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Wednesday. The honorees include an FBI team, which participated in a 2013 Alabama kidnapping rescue mission....
by Tara Longardner | Feb 9, 2015 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Residents of the nation’s capital voted overwhelmingly in November to legalize marijuana, but the fate of the initiative is now in the hands of a Republican-controlled Congress. Without congressional authorization, the legalization issue would be...
