by Haydee Clotter | May 19, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON–For the last four years the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team has won the NCAA Championship and a visit to the White House. After defeating Syracuse 82-51 players such as Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck can now...
by Siri Bulusu | May 18, 2016 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog agency slammed the auto title lending industry Wednesday, warning consumers that the short-term loans leave borrowers worse off than where they started. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report comes on the heels of...
by Kierra Gray | May 18, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON – Eight years into our first African-American presidency and amid an increasingly racialized election cycle, what can we say about the state of black America? According to a new report by the National Urban League, it’s mixed: African Americans have made...
by Benji Cohen & Brooke Rayford | May 18, 2016 | Sports
Washington — The Washington Mystics lost its first game of the season to the New York Liberty without star point guard, Ivory Latta. The Mystics and Liberty played neck and neck in the first half, but the Mystics couldn’t match the Liberty’s fourth...
by Siri Bulusu | May 17, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Ahmed Abdellahy would spend hours online reading jihadist manifestos and watching radical propaganda videos. His curiosity was satiated by the thousands and thousands of online materials that were aimed at recruiting youth. How social media...
by Siri Bulusu | May 17, 2016 | Demographics, Topics
WASHINGTON — New York state has the nation’s second smallest pay gap between men and women, with women making an average 13.8 percent less – and it gets worse the older they get, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said Tuesday. Maloney, the top Democrat on the...
