by Silvia Martelli | Oct 2, 2019 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The government needs a smarter approach to using the Cloud and that may require spending more to train for federal workers due to a skills gap, the chief information officer for the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday. Suzette Kent, speaking at...
by Joe Snell and Chiara Vercellone | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. has six conditions essential for future governance in Syria, senior diplomats and military officials said Wednesday, but they believe implementing the changes will only be possible with the cooperation of other countries. “The Syrian...
by Aishwarya Airy and Soram Cheon | Oct 2, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan said Wednesday that there is a “human rights crisis and a humanitarian crisis” in Kashmir, which has been under lockdown and curfew by Indian for 59 days. Khan told an audience at the progressive...
by Alec Bose and Nikola Boskovic | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House intelligence chairman Adam Schiff Wednesday criticized the White House for its “stonewall” strategy of refusing to hand over requested documents and threatened that they may issue subpoenas as early as Friday....
by Mark Satter | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – In the wake of a senior policy adviser to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee saying she was assaulted at a VA facility, the chairwoman of the committee’s panel on health wants to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to create strict...
by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Carrying purple butterfly ornaments and wearing purple shirts, advocates for domestic violence awareness rallied at the Capitol Tuesday to push Congress to provide more support to victims and their families. On the first day of Domestic Violence Awareness...