by Catherine Buchaniec | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
Schools nationwide have grappled with the downsides of online education during the pandemic, especially reduced in person interactions. At National Defense University, the stakes of remote learning go beyond the headaches of exchanging classrooms for Zoom breakout...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two days after the 2020 presidential election, an anonymous online message alleged the U.S. Postal Service in Wisconsin had backdated ballot postmarks to mess with election results — a claim that was quickly debunked by fact-checkers and the USPS...
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by Quinn Clark | Feb 17, 2022 | Education
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his...
by Katherine Huggins | Feb 16, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies say they’re hoping to improve drug development and approval for rare diseases, the majority of which lack FDA-approved treatments. There are over 7,000 rare diseases in the U.S. and only...
by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured
More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 15, 2022 | Immigration
Nearly 5,500 unaccompanied migrant children were relocated to Maryland between October 2020 and September 2021, the highest number in the past six years, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The year before, this...
