Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
The great-great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt will speak Monday evening at the Georgetown based Harvard Club about his new historical novel and legal thriller, which examines the constitutionality of Japanese internment during World War II, and the balance between liberty and security in a free society.
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November 22, 2015
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The State Department initially approved a weapons shipment from a California company to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 even though a United Nations arms ban was in place, according to memos recovered from the burned-out compound in Benghazi.
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October 20, 2015
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As India launches its first observatory in space and Europe places a probe on a comet, SpaceX is hoping to help the U.S. lead the space race with reusable rockets and the kind of raw power not seen since the glory days of the Saturn V.
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October 4, 2015
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The University of Virginia entered into a settlement Monday with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights after a four-year long investigation, changing the way the school handles reports of sexual violence and harassment, officials said Monday.
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September 21, 2015
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Fifty-three years after Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers in California, the labor union is facing resistance from laborers at the largest U.S. peach farm, who are rallying against union representation and the state bureaucrats who refuse to count their votes to decertify the collective.
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August 19, 2015
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Martin Luther King III and Sen. Bernard Sanders think voters' rights in America still need to improve, and they expressed their concerns at the MLK Memorial in Washington on Thursday, which marked the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
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August 6, 2015
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The Obama administration disclosed Tuesday it first learned about Rolling Stone's ill-fated story on campus rape in Sept. 2014, about two months before it was published, when reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely called seeking information on the government's investigation of the University of Virginia's handling of sexual assaults.
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July 22, 2015
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Rolling Stone has confirmed for the first time in a court filing that a University of Virginia sexual assault victim advocate, who also served on an Obama administration White House task force, introduced the student who became the centerpiece of the magazine's now-retracted story about a gang rape on campus.
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July 19, 2015
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Famed sexual harassment and employment lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents a number of women accusing Bill Cosby of rape, wants President Obama to revoke the actor's Presidential Medal of Freedom and believes that the White House or Congress should create a mechanism to do just that.
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July 16, 2015
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Three astronauts working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were nearly struck Thursday by what NASA is calling a "close pass" by flying Russian space junk.
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July 16, 2015
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It started as a movement grounded in the rebellious "Do It Yourself" culture of punk rock music and libertarianism, and flowed to independent-minded engineers dismayed with "Made in China" mass-produced merchandise.
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July 8, 2015
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While Americans celebrated the Fourth of July, four nuclear-capable Russian long-range strategic bomber aircraft cruised through the U.S. Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), not far from the Alaskan and California coastlines.
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July 6, 2015
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A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with 5,249 pounds of long-awaited supplies for the International Space Station launched from the Kazakhstan-based Baikonur Cosmodrome Friday, after two prior supply missions failed.
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July 4, 2015
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The recent Sunday explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket high above the skies of Cape Canaveral should not reignite Washington's willingness to use Russian rocket engines, Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain said.
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June 30, 2015
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Russia is test-flying a new, hypersonic glide vehicle that follows the contrails of China's WU-14, a delivery vehicle reportedly capable of carrying nuclear warheads at Mach 10 and less susceptible to U.S. anti-ballistic countermeasures.
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June 26, 2015
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A key House oversight panel is demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services turn over all documents related to the failed Cover Oregon health care information exchange, which was abandoned last year after the state spent an estimated $300 million of federal grant money to build it.
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June 25, 2015
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Moscow issued a stern warning to the Washington Monday that there could be "dangerous consequences" if the United States stationed military equipment to the Eastern border of Ukraine.
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June 16, 2015
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The Pentagon has officially said it would face "significant challenges" to ensuring military and intelligence access to space if Congress doesn't loosen restrictions on the use of Russian rocket engines, but top lawmakers aren't buying that and are accusing the military of slow-walking.
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June 15, 2015
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A Russian warplane flying in international airspace over the Black Sea came within 10 feet of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane last month, CNN reported Thursday night.
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June 11, 2015
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Media analyst and activist Mark Dice, known for "punking" Americans into signing bizarrely ridiculous petitions, reportedly convinced a number of Californians in San Diego to sign a fake petition supporting President Obama's "plan" to launch a "preemptive nuclear strike" on Russia as part of a strategy to "maintain America's superiority."
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June 11, 2015
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