by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 27, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON – As Congress negotiates impending budget cuts including a possible reduction of federal grants to college students, unemployment among those under 30 is higher than the national average. A group of young adults who call themselves the...
by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 19, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Before George Clooney’s mission in Darfur and Bono’s Red campaign for AIDS, before Madonna’s Raising Malawi nonprofit and Alec Baldwin’s support of National Endowment for the Arts, there was Robert Redford, who pioneered celebrity-driven causes with his...
by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 18, 2011 | Topics
WASHINGTON – A group of Iowa students will return home from Washington this week ready to ramp up their efforts to get the state to phase out coal dependency in favor of cleaner energy sources. They were among more than 10,000 other high school and college students...
by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 13, 2011 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Arab leaders to move “faster and further” in reform in a speech Tuesday at the U.S.-Islam World Forum Tuesday, rousing audience members as she pushed leaders to give citizens a bigger role in regime change in the...
by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 7, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON, April 7 — New containment technology unveiled by U.S. oil industry executives has led to eight new permits to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, despite uncertainty over whether the new control systems are actually capable of cleaning up a disaster such as...
