by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 30, 2013 | National Security, Topics
Homemade and improvised biological weapons, such as ricin, pose a slimmer risk to national security than the mind-set needed to carry out such attacks, security and bioterrorism experts say. Despite the interest in ricin that was amplified by the recent letters sent...
by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 25, 2013 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Leaders from the veteran and nonprofit communities gathered during a Wednesday Senate hearing to discuss how to improve the flow of resources and support services to veterans. The hearing aimed to examine how outreach by the Veterans Affairs...
by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 25, 2013 | National Security, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON – Despite federal and local efforts to prevent improvised biological, chemical and radiological weapons from being used in the U.S., anyone can get anthrax, plague bacteria and other lethal weapons, several top scientists told a House hearing...
by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 22, 2013 | National Security, Topics
The media has been running rampant with political analyses and media coverage of current U.S.-North Korea tensions, but what do everyday Americans have to say about it? For this project, I asked random people on the streets of DC to write the letters they’d send...
by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 18, 2013 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Boston, Benghazi and Pakistan took center stage Wednesday as Secretary of State John Kerry defended President Barack Obama’s proposed foreign-affairs budget for the next fiscal year. In his first appearance before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs...
