by Minghe Hu | Aug 14, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON- U.S. import prices remained flat in July as rising fuel prices were offset by a drop in other products’ prices caused by a strong dollar in the market, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. However, import prices were up 4.8 percent from the same month...
by Basma Amer & Loumay Alesali | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — About two dozen white nationalists rallied Sunday near the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riot, while about a thousand counterprotesters yelled at them from across the wide expanse of Lafayette Park. The National...
by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu & Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Aug 13, 2018 | Entertainment, Living
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) — A young boy was doodling a portrait of the iconic anime Sailor Moon when the real thing – a woman dressed as the magical girl who befriends a talking cat – showed up in the staid Library of Congress. At a workshop Thursday...
by Holly Honderich & Juliette Rocheleau | Aug 12, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – About 1,000 protesters gathered a few blocks from a white nationalist rally Sunday, far outnumbering the fewer than two dozen Unite the Right activists who walked to Lafayette Park near the White House one year after the deadly riots in Charlottesville,...
by Jinman Li | Aug 11, 2018 | Health
WASHINGTON – Big companies are fighting back against the spiraling costs of employee health care by shaking up how care is delivered and paid for – including direct contracting with health care providers or tying pay to quality of total patient care, a new report...
by Charlene Zhang | Aug 9, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Four former clerks of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said fears that he would help overturn Roe v. Wade or promote pro-business decisions don’t understand his character. Rebecca Taibleson, who clerked for Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court...