by Jingnan Huo | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – She had one of the trickiest words — curfuffle. Her brother, mother and father, sitting in the audience at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, cringed when they heard 13-year-old Vasundara Govindarajan of Miami start the...
by Maryam Saleh | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If Akshra Paimagam was nervous on stage at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, she did not show it. The Charlotte eighth grader breezed through the preliminary rounds of the bee Wednesday, correctly spelling “sorbitol” and...
by Maryam Saleh | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – Fort Worth eighth grader Will Lourcey aced the spelling of “fallacy” and “Ruritanian” on Wednesday, but that was not enough for him to advance to the finals of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Lourcey, 14, is a student at Trinity...
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by Yu-Ning Aileen Chuang | May 25, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. should act against a contentious Russia’s gas pipeline project, supporting the European Union’s energy security, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. “Russia has a track record of weaponizing natural gas,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the New...
by Jingnan Huo | May 19, 2017 | Featured, National Security
by Jingnan Huo WASHINGTON — U.S. space spending is expected to increase in the coming fiscal year, and some of the money will go toward better protection for military satellites, newly confirmed Air Force Secretary Heather A. Wilson told a Senate committee....
by David Jordan & Nia Prater | May 11, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Advocates of late-decided Obama-era regulations can rest easy. The time limit for Congress to use the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations imposed in the last six months of the Obama presidency has passed. The deadline expired Wednesday,...
