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Trump gets first major legislative victory as Senate passes huge tax plan
With a 51-49 vote, the Senate early Saturday passed legislation to introduce a huge set of changes to the tax code, giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative victory. Trump hailed the Senate vote for...December 2, 2017 1100 0 -
Trump may replace Tillerson with CIA Director Pompeo as top American diplomat
Mike Pompeo, Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons President Trump could oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, according to a report in The New York Times Thursday. The change in...November 30, 2017 1007 0 -
Trump declares North Korea a state sponsor of terror
President Donald Trump Monday said the United States is declaring North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, in the face of Pyongyang hurling nuclear and missile threats. The move, to be formally enforced on Tuesday, will...November 20, 2017 965 0 -
Democratic and Republican choices in the never-ending election season
What makes the process a never-ending election season During his campaign for the White House Donald Trump said many times that he intended to turn the United States around. His predecessors and Washington politicians had allowed...November 12, 2017 1413 0 -
U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October; unemployment lowest since 2000
Photo: Wall Street New York, Credit CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org The U.S. economy rebounded to grow in a range of sectors and added 261,000 jobs in October, reducing the the unemployment rate to 4.1 percent, the...November 3, 2017 1171 0 -
U.S. economy sustains 3.0 percent growth despite hurricanes
A view of Target Black Friday shopping DCUSA Photo: Gridprop/Wikimedia Commons Driven by increases in consumer spending, inventory investment, business investment, and exports, the U.S. economy grew at 3.0% pace in the third quarter of 2017,...October 28, 2017 1223 0 -
Trump eyes “biggest tax cuts ever” before the end of 2017
Photo: Screenshot/Fox News Calling his proposed tax plan as the “biggest tax cuts in the history” of the United States, President Donald Trump Sunday believed that Congress would be able to pass it before the end...October 22, 2017 1053 0 -
US has cautious approach to addressing South Asian conflicts
Indicating that the United States would avoid taking sides in South Asian conflicts, the State Department has said Washington has always been cautious about addressing Pakistan-India issues as it does not want to escalate tensions. “I...October 20, 2017 856 0 -
Protesters rally against travel ban in Washington D.C.
A coalition of civil rights and immigration organizations staged a demonstrations outside the White House to press their opposition to travel ban against citizens of mostly Muslim majority countries. The organizers called the demonstration #NoMuslimBanEver and...October 19, 2017 1306 0 -
D.C. proposes 4 locations for Amazon HQ2
Washington Monument, Photo: U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway/Wikimedia Commons Five billion dollars in investment, 50,000 new jobs. Still, that is not all that is driving American cities to house the second headquarters of commerce...October 17, 2017 1454 0
