by Nadya Faulx | Jun 11, 2013 | Immigration
Hundreds raced in Saturday’s Gaza Solidarity 5K at Rock Creek Park, raising more than $80,000 for vital social services in the Gaza Strip. Cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among children have doubled since last November’s conflict with Israel, said...
by Nadya Faulx | Jun 7, 2013 | Topics
GUNS 5 from Medill Washington on Vimeo. Pro-choice or pro-life? How about pro-abortion rights versus anti-abortion? Military intervention? Didn’t that use to mean “war”? And be aware, until the Associated Press deemed it politically incorrect, undocumented immigrants...
by Nadya Faulx | Jun 3, 2013 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Gun buybacks are usually in the domain of local government, but music industry executive Michael “Blue” Williams and a few intrepid community leaders in New York are using turn-in-your-guns programs to save the lives of at-risk youth. “In New York...
by Nadya Faulx | May 30, 2013 | Education
WASHINGTON—Two points were all that stood between Aditya Mishra and Thursday’s Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinals. The 11-year-old from Lincoln advanced through Wednesdays’ preliminaries with fuselage in Round Two and geanticline in Round Three (easy words,...
by Nadya Faulx | May 29, 2013 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Not every 11-year-old would consider “tchotchke” an easy word to spell. But Aditya Mishra, of Lincoln, Calif., can rattle it off without missing a beat—even if he isn’t quite sure what it means. He just knows that it was one of a long list of words...
