by Brock Hall | Feb 14, 2019 | National Security, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Experts and officials told lawmakers Thursday it’s important to share information among government agencies to protect the nation’s infrastructure from cybersecurity threats. They addressed the issue Thursday in a hearing of the Senate...
by Brock Hall | Feb 14, 2019 | Environment, Topics
Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee invited experts on Wednesday to lay out climate change concerns before their sometimes skeptical Republican colleagues in the panel’s first hearing of the new Congress. “Climate change is real,” said...
by Jessica A. Floyd | Feb 12, 2019 | Topics
The first former undocumented immigrant and first Dominican-American in Congress, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., hosted the first Dominicans on the Hill event last week. He brought Dominicans from across the country to “highlight to members of Congress how many...
by Jessica A. Floyd | Feb 7, 2019 | Politics
While Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday focused, at times, on openness to compromise and national unity, it also highlighted his skillful use of polyvocal messaging. Experts in immigration, sociology, politics and linguistics consider Trump’s...
by Brock Hall | Feb 6, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to call for a bipartisan plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. “Both parties should be able to unite for a great rebuilding of America’s crumbling infrastructure,”...
by Lucas Robinson | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) — Bolstered by a 2019 yearly threat assessment from the director of national intelligence that warned of the risk posed by Turkey’s fraying relationship with the United States, senators have urged action to prevent a deeper strain...