by Kira Boyd & Empriss Campbell | Jul 7, 2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON—What started out Wednesday as a discussion among former solicitors general and a top law professor about the Supreme Court’s recent rulings quickly turned into a debate about whether the justices displayed activist tendencies or restraint. In McDonald v....
by Malathi Nayak | Jul 6, 2010 | Politics
Young conservative activists brought their case against Elena Kagan to the steps of the Supreme Court on Thursday. Young Americans for Freedom launched its “Keep Out Kagan” campaign on Capitol Hill, protesting against the solicitor general’s nomination to the nation’s...
by Luke X. Martin | Jun 30, 2010 | National Security
Luke X. Martin/MNSGen. David Petraeus prepares for his Senate Armed Forces committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday. WASHINGTON — Put yourself in Gen. David Petraeus’s boots: The leader of the free world has hand selected you to lead the most important piece of...
by Danny Sirdofsky | May 12, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Listed by the World Health Organization as one of the three greatest threats to human health, antibiotic resistance has become a growing concern to infectious disease experts who fear that we are no more than two generations away from being nearly...
by Melissa Tussing | May 12, 2010 | Science + Technology
Get the Flash Player to see this content. First Lady Michelle Obama and members of the Childhood Obesity Task Force unveiled their plan to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation on Tuesday. Melissa Tussing/MNS WASHINGTON- First lady Michelle Obama...