by Josephine Chu | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The parents of Christopher Allen, a 26-year-old British-American freelance journalist killed while covering the civil war in South Sudan, said at a vigil Monday on the two-year anniversary of his death that the South Sudanese government should be...
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by Kimberly Jin and Apoorva Mittal | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, National Security
Washington – In World War II, William Walker served in the Navy in the Philippines. It was the last war when black and white servicemen were separated according to their race, and black troops were not accorded the same level of respect as their white counterparts....
by Dwight A. Weingarten | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Next month, for the first time in over 25 years, a proposal to make Washington the 51st state will have a hearing in the House of Representatives. For third-generation Washingtonian and 28-year member of Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton, the issue of...
by Matt Reynolds | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The DNA kit that an Ohio woman gave her parents as a Christmas gift last year was meant to draw her family closer together. Instead, it threw their lives into disarray before finally leading them to court. Rebecca Cartellone, 24, bought Ancestry.com...
by Kelly Rissman | Aug 14, 2019 | Economy, Featured
WASHINGTON– To show opposition to a company’s actions, some shareholders divest. But a new platform offers a different option — pooling assets to publicly petition for changes in corporate policies. Stake, launched in 2018, unites shareholders across...
by Thomas Ilalaole | Aug 12, 2019 | Entertainment, Featured
LOS ANGELES – At the first PRIDE Summit celebrating the influence of the LGBTQ+ community in music, media and entertainment Thursday, African-American transgender woman Shea Diamond said it’s time to move beyond being “not female enough not male enough.” During the...
