by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 24, 2015 | Environment, National Security
WASHINGTON – Soldiers are being deployed to help fight wildfires in the West for the first time since 2006, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “The Army doesn’t have firefighters,” said spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. “But the Army has soldiers that can do things in...
by Matt Yurus | Aug 24, 2015 | Topics
A handful of recent graduates from the architecture school at Washington’s Catholic University were chosen to design the papal furniture Pope Francis will use at a special mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Sept. 23. Matt Yurus...
by Yanqing Chen | Aug 24, 2015 | Topics
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor running for Republican presidential nomination who is currently averaging about 4.3 percent of likely voter support in an average of national polls, entered the 2016 race planning to stress economic issues in a way that...
by Siyuan Du | Aug 23, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
As Carly Fiorina makes gains in the polls, she’s touting her global corporate experience as an indicator of how she would handle foreign policy issues if she were to win the White House. Seasoned diplomatic experts, however, are not convinced Fiorina’s...
by Jenny Leonard | Aug 20, 2015 | National Security
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Mother’s Day 2005, George Wentworth got a phone call that would change his life forever. The Navy corpsman was informed that two Marines in his unit were killed in action in Iraq. They were the first of 23 casualties sustained by Lima Company, 3rd...
by Emily Hoerner & Phoebe Tollefson | Aug 20, 2015 | Entertainment, Politics
WASHINGTON – In the early stages of the presidential campaign, prospective voters can watch a video of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson pulling on rubber gloves and playing the board game “Operation,” or share a clip of businesswoman Carly Fiorina mocking Hillary...
