by Chiara Vercellone and Sam Cabral | Oct 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In the Capitol where Rep. Elijah Cummings advocated for civil rights and equality for 23 years, crowds passed quietly beside his flag-draped casket on Thursday as it lay in state. Cummings died Oct. 17 at age in Baltimore due to complications concerning...
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by Alec Bose | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz demanded Thursday that Boko Haram release the last of 110 girls it captured a year ago, saying the kidnapping points to a larger problem of persecutions of Christians in many countries. Leah Sharibu16, was among 110 girls...
by Mark Satter | Oct 24, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned a Senate committee Thursday that efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in the U.S. fall short and laid out a new approach that would end the overprescription of addictive pills. “We still have an epidemic of...
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by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs to provide education, especially English-language proficiency, to foreign militaries, not just weapons and equipment, a national security expert said Thursday. “In order to be interoperable, English language proficiency is priority one, two...
by Niko Boskovic | Oct 24, 2019 | Education
WASHINGTON – Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, the original sponsor of a bill to require more safety equipment on school buses, saw the technology in action Wednesday as part of National School Bus Safety Week. Walorski was joined by a fellow Indiana lawmaker...
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by Brian Johnson | Oct 24, 2019 | Business, Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Senators on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee generally agreed Thursday that Congress must pass legislation to increase data privacy protections, but that’s where the agreement ended. Congress should pass comprehensive data privacy...
