by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jun 29, 2011 | National Security, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The Senate is considering cutting $1.25 billion from the president’s 2012 budget request for military construction plans. This bill would not cut veteran benefits but would slash spending on military construction projects, especially overseas. Sen. Tim...
by Jacqueline Klimas | Jun 29, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — A different kind of surveillance is going on in the U.S. armed forces. A monitoring system you may not know about tracks troops and their movements to ensure that potentially pandemic diseases do not spread between countries. Formed in 1997 by the...
by Matt Mansfield | Jun 28, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Tom Coburn R-Okla., rolled out their bipartisan plan to save Medicare Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The pair’s suggested proposal, which would save more than $600 billion over 10 years, includes changes such as asking the...
by Matt Mansfield | Jun 8, 2011 | Politics, Science + Technology
When you call 911 with a medical emergency, you probably want to see an ambulance soon after. But rural health workers across the Midwest say it’s getting harder and harder to get that ambulance to your door. When it comes to paying the bills, North Dakota’s...
by Kyle Jahner | Jun 7, 2011 | Politics, Science + Technology
Kyle Jahner/MEDILL NEWS SERVICEBernie Sanders speaks in front of several hundred nurses at a National Nurses United-sponsored rally Tuesday.Two Democratic senators and hundreds of red-clad union nurses gathered on the Upper Senate Lawn Tuesday and made a lot of noise...
by Kelsey Sheehy | May 26, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Redouan Ait Chiit, 21, has no right hip, a prosthetic leg, and a right arm that stops at the elbow, but you should see him dance. Known as BBoy Redo, Ait Chitt is one-fifth of ILL-Abilities, an international break dancing crew that lives by the...
