by Oyin Falana & Ricky Zipp | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba- From Dec. 2-9, 2017, Medill reporters Oyin Falana and Ricky Zipp spent a week at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay for the 26th round of pre-trial hearings for accused mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammad and four other accused 9/11...
by Oyin Falana | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced Friday the indictment of nine Iranians for conspiring to hack 144 American universities and stealing research worth approximately $3.4 billion. The indictment alleges that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
by Ricky Zipp | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared in New Hampshire on Monday to reaffirm the importance of solving the opioid crisis and announce new strategies for dealing with the problem. The president’s speech primarily focused on stricter law enforcement...
by Elizabeth Strassner | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — It’s an issue that has libertarians and prostitutes on one side and almost all of Congress on the other. The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act passed the Senate by a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday, but critics on and off the Hill warn that the bill could...
by David Thill | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
Dying – perhaps not unlike waking up early or going to school – is one of those things that almost no one seems to want to do but everyone has to do eventually (at least for now). Still, it’s quite a difficult topic of conversation. It was, however, a topic of...
by Jinitzail Hernandez | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured
WASHINGTON – Mark Janus is one of three employees who took over a case originally brought to court by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner against AFSCME (I break down the acronym in the video, promise). This case, which eight out of the nine Supreme Court justices...