![Sessions blames corrupt doctors for opioid crisis, calls for tighter borders]()
by Em Steck | May 4, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said doctors are prescribing too many opioids, the same day that Justice Department indicted five doctors working at Pennsylvania opioid addiction treatment centers for health care fraud. The doctors were...
by Em Steck | May 4, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — The co-founder and CEO of Backpage, a sex advertisement website shut down by the federal government last week, pleaded guilty in Arizona federal court late last week to conspiracy charges related to prostitution and money laundering, including the...
by Xinyi(Ethel) Jiang | May 3, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON –A trade war “can be averted” between the U.S. and China, economic experts say, as difficult trade negotiations between both countries began Thursday in Beijing. The countries will likely reach some agreements “as a start” to encourage further...
by Elizabeth Beyer | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Far-right Republican members of Congress have drafted impeachment articles against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, but Rosenstein said Tuesday the Justice Department “is not going to be extorted.” The Washington Post first reported that the...
by Medill News Service | Apr 27, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- Three Medill graduate students will be honored and receive scholarships from the White House Correspondent Association at its annual black-tie dinner Saturday. The students met with President Donald Trump and the Vice President Mike Pence on the South...
![Canada ‘fully confident’ it will get permanent exemptions from aluminum, steel tariffs]()
by Xinyi(Ethel) Jiang | Apr 27, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — Canada is “fully confident” that it will receive permanent exemptions on aluminum and steel tariffs from the U.S. despite “challenging” trade negotiations, David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., said Thursday night. “I continue to be hopeful...
