by Julia Mueller | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
An appellate court is expected to rule soon on the constitutionality of New York’s mask mandates WASHINGTON — Even as the COVID-19 omicron variant surges, many school districts around the country — as well as some states like Virginia — are relaxing mask...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: How are changes made to the U.S. Constitution? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, representatives...
by Michael Korsh | Feb 1, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured
Criminals have used the vulnerability to launch attacks against companies and governments WASHINGTON — In the months since the Apache Software Foundation announced a major security vulnerability in its Log4j 2 software library, cybersecurity experts have said...
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by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last...
by Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 31, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As the nation’s governors consider how to spend funds from President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is encouraging investments in cybersecurity education for Americans of all...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Acclaimed poet and writer Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to have her likeness featured on a quarter after the U.S. Mint released the newly minted coin on Jan. 10. The Maya Angelou coin is the first in a series of quarters to be released...
