by Mallory Hughes | Aug 17, 2015 | Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — In a typical Demo Day for new companies, teams pitch to prospective investors. But this was not typical. At the White House recently, budding startups had a different opportunity—pitching to the President of the United States. As part of the Startup...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 17, 2015 | Health
WASHINGTON – A new vaccine, 30 years in the making, could finally signal an advance in the struggle against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease which kills more than half a million people each year, health experts say. In July, the European Medicines Agency, similar...
by Empriss Campbell | Aug 13, 2015 | Health
WASHINGTON – Federal and local officials are worried about a spike in drug overdoses among the homeless in the District of Columbia and attribute the problem to an easily accessible illegal drug — synthetic marijuana. Also known as K2 spice, synthetic marijuana...
by Siyuan Du | Aug 13, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Administration chief Gina McCarthy on Wednesday defended the Obama administration’s new plan setting carbon dioxide emission rates for power plants for the first time, saying it eventually will save $45 billion a year and help...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 13, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – The U.S. may have opened an embassy in Havana, Cuba, but 500 miles away at the Guantanamo Bay naval base you wouldn’t know that anything had changed. Guantanamo Bay, with its small-town feel, is a major naval base as well as home...
by Matt Yurus | Aug 13, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno holds a press briefing Aug. 12 at the Pentagon before he retires from service. Published in conjunction with
