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‘Draft Bernie’ movement plows ahead despite cold shoulder from Sanders

‘Draft Bernie’ movement plows ahead despite cold shoulder from Sanders

by Ricky Zipp | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — A group of progressives gathered in Washington this weekend to try to lure Sen. Bernie Sanders to lead the creation of new political party, but the former Democratic presidential candidate was a no-show. Nevertheless, the group calling itself Draft Bernie...
Pelosi celebrates failure of Senate Republicans’ health care bill

Pelosi celebrates failure of Senate Republicans’ health care bill

by Casey Egan | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans announced Tuesday afternoon that the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal, their latest attempt to overturn Obamacare, will not be brought up for a vote this week, ending a series of failed efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act. “We...
East Germans vote for “bikinis, not burkas” in parliamentary election

East Germans vote for “bikinis, not burkas” in parliamentary election

by Kevin Schmidt | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – The outcome of Germany’s parliamentary elections shows a clear divide in the country between younger and older voters and a lack of support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democrats, according to several experts. While the...
Protesters ejected from Obamacare repeal Senate hearing

Protesters ejected from Obamacare repeal Senate hearing

by Casey Egan & Ricky Zipp | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON — The week of the Senate Republicans’ attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act began with U.S. Capitol police removing protesters from the Senate Finance Committee’s public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal to replace Obamacare....
Bridging the skills gap, one solar panel at a time

Bridging the skills gap, one solar panel at a time

by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 31, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology

It was June 29, and Dexter Rawlings had finished his first day of on-the-job training, installing solar panels on the rooftops of Washington. After hours under the unforgiving summer sun, he arrived home, exhausted. But an email was waiting for him with an encouraging...
Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind

Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind

by Ritu Prasad | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology

What NASA knows about the space rocks coming into our neck of the solar system this year WASHINGTON — What’s better than a story about the apocalypse? We’ve been figuring out the best and brightest ways for humanity to end-as-we-know-it since we started telling...
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