by Siri Bulusu | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A flower messed her up. With poise and composure, Eva Vega of Charlotte advanced to the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday, but was tripped up when she misspelled the word “cypripedium.” A cypripedium is a type of...
by Siri Bulusu | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — After an admirable show of poise and confidence, 12-year-old Myrtle Beach native Henry Hein was cut from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, despite spelling correctly in the live competition. He just didn’t score high enough on a written...
by Siri Bulusu | May 18, 2016 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog agency slammed the auto title lending industry Wednesday, warning consumers that the short-term loans leave borrowers worse off than where they started. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report comes on the heels of...
by Siri Bulusu | May 17, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Ahmed Abdellahy would spend hours online reading jihadist manifestos and watching radical propaganda videos. His curiosity was satiated by the thousands and thousands of online materials that were aimed at recruiting youth. How social media...
by Siri Bulusu | May 17, 2016 | Demographics, Topics
WASHINGTON — New York state has the nation’s second smallest pay gap between men and women, with women making an average 13.8 percent less – and it gets worse the older they get, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said Tuesday. Maloney, the top Democrat on the...
