by Cailin Crowe | May 30, 2018 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Frederick’s Charles Millard still considers himself a winner despite misspelling “germon,” the French word for a type of tuna, in the first round of Tuesday’s National Scripps Spelling Bee. “In my mind I’ve already won,” he said before taking...
by Anna Kook | May 30, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Dakota’s county and state spelling champion made it to round three of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. So how did Tobi Shorunke of Fargo do Tuesday afternoon? His word was “portulaca” and he asked for the definition. Any plant of a...
by Xinyi(Ethel) Jiang | May 29, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – More than half a dozen U.S. footwear retailers and manufacturers filed for bankruptcy in the past 14 months as they struggled to attract traffic to their physical stores, but brick-and-motor shoe sellers still have a chance to turn around their business,...
by Anna Kook | May 25, 2018 | Featured, National Security
Kang Chol-hwan fled North Korea in 1992 at the age of 24 for South Korea, finally arriving after a six-month journey through China. He had been imprisoned at age 9 because his grandfather was accused of treason. He spent 10 years in a political prison camp in Yodok...
by Caroline Tanner | May 24, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – American financial institutions face a greater threat from cyberattacks because of a shortage of high-tech professionals and poor coordination between the government and private sector on how to deter hackers, executives say. Financial services industry...
by Elizabeth Beyer | May 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
**Editor’s note: Mildly strong language in quote in fifth graph WASHINGTON – Students from high schools across the country met with Democratic members of Congress Wednesday to discuss gun control reform just days after another shooting claimed the lives of 10...
