by Yimian Wu | Dec 2, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — While economists are divided on whether Japan’s large-scale quantitative easing will revive its economy, they do expect the country’s current monetary stimulus effort will increase inflation more significantly than the last five-year attempt. The...
by Brian MacIver | Nov 26, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — It is legal to sell marijuana in 23 states. But pot businesses can’t deposit their money in banks because of federal banking laws. While the dilemma has been a back-burner issue in Congress for several years, a solution may be in the works. A...
by Carmen Lopez and Yimian Wu | Nov 25, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — The National Building Museum is full of food cans this week, part of an innovative project to show that art can be made from anything. Twenty-four architecture and design teams spent six hours building sculptures with the cans as part of the annual...
by Connor Morgan | Nov 25, 2015 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Chinese students educated in Western countries learn about democracy, but when they enter the work world at home they must adapt to an authoritarian state or face bleak employment prospects as they push for human rights reform in China, according to...
by Samuel Fiske and Sean Froelich | Nov 24, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — President Obama and French President Francois Hollande are seeking to temper fears of escalating tensions between Russia and the West by asking President Vladimir Putin to join a coalition to fight the Islamic State. Speaking Tuesday at a White...
by Traci Badalucco | Nov 24, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON- In her disease ecology lab in College Station, Sarah Hamer, peering through a microscope, examines the newest addition to her expansive vector collection — an exotic tick the size of a poppy seed, typically only found in Central and South America. How it...
