by Haiya Kofler | Oct 3, 2018 | Business & Tech
PENTAGON CITY, Va. – A top Department of Homeland Security official said the federal government has not adequately tapped into the expertise of technology innovators, an inefficiency that could cost lives. “Many of you out there are the innovators that we frankly have...
by Brock Hall | Oct 3, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that calls into question a 30-year-precedent that a plaintiff cannot file a takings claim in federal court until all state court options have been exhausted. The case began when the...
by Jessica A. Floyd | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Census Bureau told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he would be “independent from improper influences” in conducting the 2020 census, which for the first time in decades will ask whether people...
by Daniel Grimes & Patty Nieberg | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Artificial Intelligence cannot eliminate human involvement in technology because people will have to create ways to fight back against efforts to threaten national cybersecurity, experts said at The Atlantic Festival on Wednesday. “Humans will...
by Bryan Wood | Oct 3, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Tuesday posed the idea of expanding the reason that a person cannot be executed to include severe dementia in a case involving a 68-year-old Alabama man with dementia who murdered a police officer 33 years ago. “We...
by Daniel Grimes | Oct 2, 2018 | Health
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and top Democrat on the committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein blasted China at a meeting on international narcotics Tuesday for its lackluster efforts to help stop fentanyl smuggling into the United States....