by Silvia Martelli | Oct 22, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is urging India to address human rights violations in Kashmir that began in August and to allow foreign delegations into the disputed Himalayan region, a top State Department official said Tuesday. On Aug. 5, after New Delhi voted to...
by Silvia Martelli | Oct 17, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – When Lena Sisco graduated from Brown University with an archeology master’s degree, she would have never predicted she would become the CIA’s lead interrogator for many high-value detainees in prisons across the world, from Afghanistan to Cuba. Sisco, who...
by Silvia Martelli | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — Implementing universal health care, often called Medicare for all, would reduce competition and innovation in the health care industry and create longer waiting times for services, some health care policy experts said Wednesday. Speaking at the...
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by Silvia Martelli | Oct 2, 2019 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The government needs a smarter approach to using the Cloud and that may require spending more to train for federal workers due to a skills gap, the chief information officer for the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday. Suzette Kent, speaking at...
by Silvia Martelli | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a contentious meeting of the House Judiciary Committee the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday defended the use of immigrant detention centers as well as the care detainees receive, but Democrats weren’t buying his...
