Baltzell was one of four former NOAA workers who shared their stories during a March 13 press conference hosted by U.S. Sen.

All the latest breaking news on United States. Browse ibtimes archives of photos, videos and articles on United States.

Students at dozens of U.S. high schools participated last month in the first round of an international competition in economics. The top five American students will travel to Olympia, Greece, ...

The U.S. education system is not preparing today’s students to achieve in the world of tomorrow. Our society is becoming ever-more dependent on technology. So if American students are to ...

Amid the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is speaking out against ...

The Houston family was forced to sell their land to the Renton School District through eminent domain. Now they're fighting ...

One of the earliest meetings Casey Sixkiller, Washington’s Ecology head, recalls in his career was about the cleanup of the ...

Can you imagine Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, or Percival Baxter, or Ed Muskie, or Bill Cohen, Joe Brennan, Olympia Snowe, ...

Now Geraldine Ferraro was the first female to be a Vice President nominee on a major national party Presidential ticket. She ...

More legislation fell by the wayside Friday in the Legislature, including bills on signature gathering for ballot initiatives ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Donald Trump has ...