Amid #MeToo, more colleges host women as graduation speakers

In this May 12, 2017, file photo, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who delivered the 2017 Virginia Tech commencement address, listens during the ceremony on the school's campus in Blacksburg, Va. Sandberg is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday, June 8, 2018.

Bank of America Names Maria Zuber to Board of Directors

Zuber, 59, currently serves as the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and the vice president for research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she is responsible for research administration and policy. She chairs the National Science Board, having been appointed as a member by President Barack Obama in 2013.

10 African Americans named Rhodes scholars, most ever

In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, Cadet Simone Askew, of Fairfax, Va., who has been selected first captain of the U.S. Military Academy Corps of Cadets for the upcoming academic year, answers questions during a news conference, in West Point, NY. Askew earned another prestigious honor Sunday, Nov. 19, when she was one of 32 Americans awarded Rhodes scholarships to study at Oxford University in England.

Chicago’s Amazon bid focuses on workforce and transportation

Chicago has officially thrown its hat in the ring with a bid for Amazon's massive second headquarters, adding to the growing competition from cities bragging about their talent pool, quality of life and cultural amenities to lure the tech giant and its promise of jobs. While some cities have creatively played up their hipness or gently ribbed Seattle with pitches of year-round sunny weather, Chicago has played it straight.

Meet the candidate: Daniel Biss talks Rauner, campaign for governor

As he fights to win the democratic gubernatorial primary in the fall of 2018, state Sen. Daniel Biss says he is excited and confident about the position his campaign is in, winning the nomination to challenge Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Biss officially announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination on March 20 on a Facebook Live video.

Trump’s voter commission meets amid concerns about mission

A commission created by President Donald Trump to investigate his allegations of voter fraud is coming to New Hampshire a week after its vice chairman angered state leaders by claiming out-of-state voters in November helped elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. The vice chairman, Republican Kris Kobach, who also is Kansas' secretary of state, said last week that newly released data showed more than 6,500 people registered to vote last year using out-of-state driver's licenses but only 15 percent had acquired New Hampshire licenses.

Nuclear at tack on grid could ‘cripple’ society

An E-4 advanced airborne command post is tested on a electromagnetic pulse simulator. U.S. Air Force photo North Korea has threatened to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack that could shut down the United States' power grid - causing months of blackouts that could bring society to a halt, with rampant crime and social chaos.

Is Congress really going to cut your pay to $1?

Is Congress going to start leveraging the authority of a resurrected appropriations rule to target individual feds with pay cuts? Plenty of people are saying it could happen, and part of the reason why is a recent Washington Post story with the red-siren headline, "House Republicans revive obscure rule that allows them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1." The Holman Rule was adopted in the current House of Representatives rules package at the urging of Rep. Morgan Griffith , who wants to use it to target a $70 million program that supports the care of wild horses.