by Carmen Lopez | Oct 16, 2015 | Politics
The real debate winners are determined after the debate. In the Spin Room, everyone is a winner. The Spin Room is the home to over excited campaign managers that want to spin the media into thinking their candidate won. There is also literal spinning of the media....
by Connor Morgan | Oct 15, 2015 | National Security
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Roger Waters is directing troops. Literally. The famous front man has led the British band Pink Floyd for the past half-century. Now he’s leading a practice session in a room filled with wounded military veterans. MusiCorps, a music rehabilitation...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 15, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter defended President Barack Obama’s decision to keep 5,500 troops in Afghanistan through 2017 in a briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday. But reaction to the announcement was mixed. Obama announced earlier Thursday that the...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 13, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – In the box office hit “The Martian,” Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who manages to survive and even grow plants on the barren planet. But that is nothing compared with what NASA really has in mind for Earth’s planetary neighbor. NASA has...
by Angela G. Barnes and Connor Morgan | Oct 13, 2015 | Living
ARLINGTON, Va.–Arlington, Virginia’s Court House neighborhood is getting a major new addition in the form of a 24-hour, state-of-the-art homeless center, part of the suburban county’s strategy to combat homelessness. Kathy Sibert, president and chief executive of...
by Yimian Wu | Oct 13, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve should raise the short-term interest rate hovering near zero to 2 percent to avoid financial bubbles in the future, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard warned Tuesday. Even though he doesn’t expect an asset bubble...
