by Beth Lawrence & Matthew Schehl | May 21, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the early morning of Oct. 12, 1944, Navy pilot Ensign Clarence Borley had just shot down his fifth Japanese aircraft over the island of Formosa — present-day Taiwan — when anti-aircraft fire forced him to ditch his F6F Hellcat into the Pacific....
by Beth Lawrence & Matthew Schehl | Aug 14, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON –Press freedom advocates urged the Justice Department and Obama administration to drop the case of New York Times reporter James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize winner. At the National Press Club Thursday, supporters of Risen, who faces imprisonment for refusing to...
by Beth Lawrence & Matthew Schehl | Dec 6, 2011 | Topics
WASHINGTON — D.C. drivers have the need for speed; more than 500,000 speeding tickets were issued by traffic cameras last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman John Townsend II. Those tickets, in addition to red light camera violations, add up to big...
by Beth Lawrence & Matthew Schehl | Dec 5, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON – Do you know where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired? Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sure didn’t. Earlier this year, Rep. Bachmann had an “oops” moment when she confused Concord, N.H., for Concord, Mass., while talking...
by Beth Lawrence & Matthew Schehl | Nov 28, 2011 | Business & Tech
The acronyms COPPA, SOPA and ECPA may sound foreign, but the legislation they represent hits close to home for many.
