Politics Apr 10 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign The NewsHour has confirmed that Sylvia Burwell, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will be tapped to replace Kathleen Sebelius. _______________ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration after…
Arts Apr 09 ‘Of thee I sing:’ A tribute to a 20th-century great Sky Jabali-Rainey, a 4th-grade student from Washington, D.C., dressed as contralto Marian Anderson Wednesday for an event commemorating the African-American singer's April 9, 1939, performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Nation Apr 09 Obama: Love defined Fort Hood victims’ last moments President Barack Obama eulogized the three victims of Fort Hood shooting spree Wednesday, returning to the site where just over five years prior he mourned with families and comrades of the 13 killed in another on-post attack.
World Apr 08 PHOTO: Ballot boxes travel via cab in Indonesia Ballot boxes are carried via pedicabs Tuesday in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in preparation of Indonesian legislative elections on April 9.
Nation Apr 07 UPDATE: Death toll rises to 33 in Washington mudslide A total of 24 bodies have been recovered from the Washington mudslide, Washington officials reported Monday.
Science Apr 06 NASA sets solar flare images to music NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare…
Arts Apr 06 Author and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen is dead at 86 Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen died at his home on in Sagaponack, N.Y. of leukemia on Saturday. He was 86. Matthiessen was known as a novelist and non-fiction writer as well as for his work as an environmental activist and American…
Nation Apr 03 Women are outnumbered and underrepresented in the news industry, research finds Women get fewer bylines in print and online, and less time on air than men by a considerable margin, a new study by the Women’s Media Center finds. The report, The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014…
Nation Apr 02 3 killed, 16 wounded by shooter at Fort Hood One person is dead and 14 others injured in a shooting at Fort Hood, a Texas Army base in Killeen, Texas, a senior U.S. defense official told the Associated Press.
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