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Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

jshapiro@washingtontimes.com

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist and former Washington, D.C. prosecutor who served as a White House appointed senior official at the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting from 2017-2021. Mr. Shapiro has investigated and written about domestic and international criminal cases, conflicts and legality with an emphasis on Cuban and Russian affairs. He is now the assistant commentary editor for The Washington Times. He can be reached at jshapiro@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Earlier this year California-based enterprise SpaceX launched the Dragon, a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying unmanned cargo to the International Space Station. The company is hoping to help the U.S. lead the space race with reusable rockets. (Associated Press)

SpaceX proposing cost-effective reusable rockets

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.

October 4, 2015
The Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

UVa. changes handling of sex assault reports after Title IX probe

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.

September 21, 2015
Dan Gerawan (left), owner of Gerawan Farming Inc., talks with crew boss Jose Cabello in a nectarine orchard near Sanger, California. Gerawan Farming is in a battle with the United Farm Workers, which wants to represent thousands of workers at the family farm. (Associated Press)

United Farm Workers, founded by Cesar Chavez, in standoff with Gerawan Farming

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.

August 19, 2015
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Obama administration knew of Rolling Stone rape story before publication

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.

July 22, 2015
Bill Cosby (AP Photo/File)

Gloria Allred: Create mechanism to revoke Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom

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.

July 16, 2015
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber raised suspicion during his re-election campaign when he shut down the state's health care exchange. (Associated Press)

Cover Oregon Obamacare fiasco piques interest of House oversight panel

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.

June 25, 2015

Pentagon seeks repeal of Russian rocket ban

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.

June 15, 2015
This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-2 stealth bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean, before arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2006. A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday Feb. 23, 2008 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The two pilots aboard the bomber ejected before the crash and are safe the U.S. Air Force said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate what happened. Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build. All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo, Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Russian bombers skirt U.S. airspace; U.S. dispatches bombers to Britian

A pair of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers have been dispatched by the Air Force to join three B-52s at the Royal Air Force Base Fairford, in the wake of Russia doubling its number of long range strategic bomber flights along the U.S. coastline and cruising over NATO ally airspace.

June 9, 2015
Russian army bombers fly over Grand Kremlin Palace during a Victory Parade rehearsal in Moscow. (Associated Press)

Russian bomber flights buzzing U.S. airspace doubled last year

The number of long-range Russian strategic bomber flights that buzzed U.S. airspace doubled last year from their norm, forcing American jets to frequently scramble and capturing the attention of hawks in Congress who believe the Kremlin is sending a veiled warning to President Obama to keep out of its affairs in Ukraine.

June 7, 2015