by Jingnan Huo | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
by Jingnan Huo NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Durham speller Jason Sorin, a fifth grader at Triangle Day School, easily spelled “longevous” and and successfully guessed his way through “accumbent” Wednesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but did not make it to the...
by Jingnan Huo | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – She had one of the trickiest words — curfuffle. Her brother, mother and father, sitting in the audience at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, cringed when they heard 13-year-old Vasundara Govindarajan of Miami start the...
by Jingnan Huo | May 24, 2017 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexican border is only one part of a strong border defense that also must include top technology and adequate staffing. Cornyn,...
by Jingnan Huo | May 19, 2017 | Featured, National Security
by Jingnan Huo WASHINGTON — U.S. space spending is expected to increase in the coming fiscal year, and some of the money will go toward better protection for military satellites, newly confirmed Air Force Secretary Heather A. Wilson told a Senate committee....
by Jingnan Huo | May 16, 2017 | Education
by Jingnan Huo WASHINGTON-Lexington eighth-grader Evan Winkler said Monday that representing Kentucky in the National Geographic Bee was a “blessing” even though he didn’t advance to the final round. Winkler, 14, a student at Morton Middle School, was one of 54...
