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Several companies are relocating from the Empire State, numerous businesses have announced they are closing shop altogether citing economic reasons, and a new poll shows a third of New York residents plan to move because they can’t afford to stay.
Pennsylvania state lawmakers need to look beyond legislation when retooling the state’s Workforce Development System and start over, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said in a joint hearing of the House Commerce and Labor and Industry Committees.
Legislation expanding Colorado’s tax incentives for electric vehicles could mean over $99 million less in revenue for the state’s general fund at a time when Democratic lawmakers are looking for ways to raise tax revenue.
Mark Kelly, a Democrat running for the Senate in Arizona, this week returned $55,000 that he received from a paid speech in the United Arab Emirates last year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday handed in a long-awaited report on his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election and any potential wrongdoing by U.S. President Donald Trump, setting off a clamor from lawmakers in both parties for the document’s release.
Kentucky attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear got two sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the Boy Scouts of America tossed while working as a lawyer in the firm of Stites & Harbison less than a decade ago.
The Associated Press issued a clarification to a piece on a conspiracy theory about a number of Ferguson protesters following criticism from the Washington Free Beacon.
The White House determined Friday for the first time that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) no longer controls any territory in Syria.
Two Democratic congresswomen on Thursday introduced the “End Diaper Need Act of 2019”, a bill they say “would create a $100 million demonstration program for distributing free diapers and diapering products in states, communities, and nonprofits around the nation to help reduce the diaper need in low-income families and underserved communities.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take credit on Twitter for the Democratic Party’s decline in support for Israel Thursday.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) appears to not know what the word “banging” means when used in the context of describing something positively.
The Colorado business community is lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require all job creators in the state to provide a minimum three months of paid time off.
A constitutional amendment adopted by voters in November requires a two-thirds majority of legislators in both chambers to approve a new state tax or a tax increase.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in his first public comments on the matter, forefully condemned Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D., Minn.) use of anti-Semitic tropes, calling them “abhorrent” and condemning her repeated anti-Semitic declarations as contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism across the globe.
Various Democratic candidates for president said they will not be attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual Policy Conference, with the sole exception of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is close to jumping in the 2020 presidential race, according to a new report by the Denver Post.
In 2003, a mother-daughter team released a book with a stunningly reactionary thesis: Mothers’ entry into the workforce was pushing middle-class families to the brink of bankruptcy, what they called the eponymous Two-Income Trap.
Joan Miro enjoyed no closer relationship than that between his mind and his canvas. The painter was placid and reticent even to those who knew him well; he could sit with friends for hours without saying a word. Miro kept his studio as tidy as a doll’s house, scrubbing himself head to toe after carefully cleaning his brushes and lining up his tubes of paint when he completed a long day of work. He then donned his neat clothes, which echoed his background as a Catalan peasant but still a member of an elite Parisian arts scene.
Teacher strikes may have succeeded in boosting pay for union members, but they are costing hundreds of support staffers their jobs, according to a new report.
In May 1941, Stalin was warned that the Germans were about to invade the Soviet Union. As it happens, the warning came from a man who was—how to put this fairly?—a liar and a drunkard, a philanderer and a smell-smock, a gambler and, in truth, a world-class crackpot. He was also possibly the greatest spy who ever lived, and Stalin’s refusal to believe him lasted only about a month. On June 22, the Nazis poured 14 panzer divisions across the Russian border.
The infrastructure and personnel tied to Iran’s past nuclear weapons work continue to operate under the radar, according to senior Trump administration officials, who announced sanctions on a host of individuals and organizations that have worked to keep critical infrastructure of Iran’s nuclear weapons program in place.
Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has been holding a series of secret fundraisers with groups that have been tied to the support of terrorism, appearances that have been closed to the press and hidden from public view.
Key members of Congress are engaged in a new push to punish Iran for American hostage-taking by revoking visas for relatives of regime officials either attending college in the United States or working and living in the country.
“[There] are a lot of regime officials who have students here who are enjoying the benefits of our education system who are here on visas, and we need to take a hard look at upping the costs,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) said. “My concern, from a policy perspective, is right now there is very little downside to taking the hostages, and they barely keep them alive.”
American gun-control advocates and Democratic politicians took to social media to celebrate New Zealand’s plan to ban and confiscate many semiautomatic rifles and magazines on Thursday in the wake of the deadly Christchurch mosque attack.
The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies linked to illicit cargo transfers to North Korea in violation of U.S. and U.N. sanctions.
The two companies, Dalian Haibo International Freight Co. Ltd., and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co. Ltd., helped Pyongyang evade sanctions by facilitating ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum and other acquisitions that violate sanctions.
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is violating federal election law by employing foreign nationals in advisory campaign positions, according to a newly filed complaint to the Federal Election Commission obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon.
Subtlety is, perhaps, an overrated quality in art—give people enough room to interpret and they’re liable to come up with any goofy thing—but there’s still something to be said for trusting your audience to intuit what you’re up to rather than simply telling them.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday tying federal research funding for colleges and universities to their policies governing free speech.
U.S. intelligence and security agencies investigating the mysterious sonic attacks against American diplomatic personnel in China need to look no further than China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said Donald Trump’s policies could “literally” cause people to die, during the same interview where he called for “radical love” in politics.
David Brock, the seasoned liberal operative and founder of Media Matters, is launching a $50 million effort aimed at working-class voters in the Midwest in an attempt to “weaken” President Donald Trump for the 2020 elections.
In 2003, a mother-daughter team released a book with a stunningly reactionary thesis: Mothers’ entry into the workforce was pushing middle-class families to the brink of bankruptcy, what they called the eponymous Two-Income Trap.
Joan Miro enjoyed no closer relationship than that between his mind and his canvas. The painter was placid and reticent even to those who knew him well; he could sit with friends for hours without saying a word. Miro kept his studio as tidy as a doll’s house, scrubbing himself head to toe after carefully cleaning his brushes and lining up his tubes of paint when he completed a long day of work. He then donned his neat clothes, which echoed his background as a Catalan peasant but still a member of an elite Parisian arts scene.
Pennsylvania state lawmakers need to look beyond legislation when retooling the state’s Workforce Development System and start over, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said in a joint hearing of the House Commerce and Labor and Industry Committees.
Teacher strikes may have succeeded in boosting pay for union members, but they are costing hundreds of support staffers their jobs, according to a new report.
In May 1941, Stalin was warned that the Germans were about to invade the Soviet Union. As it happens, the warning came from a man who was—how to put this fairly?—a liar and a drunkard, a philanderer and a smell-smock, a gambler and, in truth, a world-class crackpot. He was also possibly the greatest spy who ever lived, and Stalin’s refusal to believe him lasted only about a month. On June 22, the Nazis poured 14 panzer divisions across the Russian border.
Legislation expanding Colorado’s tax incentives for electric vehicles could mean over $99 million less in revenue for the state’s general fund at a time when Democratic lawmakers are looking for ways to raise tax revenue.
Mark Kelly, a Democrat running for the Senate in Arizona, this week returned $55,000 that he received from a paid speech in the United Arab Emirates last year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday handed in a long-awaited report on his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election and any potential wrongdoing by U.S. President Donald Trump, setting off a clamor from lawmakers in both parties for the document’s release.
Kentucky attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear got two sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the Boy Scouts of America tossed while working as a lawyer in the firm of Stites & Harbison less than a decade ago.
The infrastructure and personnel tied to Iran’s past nuclear weapons work continue to operate under the radar, according to senior Trump administration officials, who announced sanctions on a host of individuals and organizations that have worked to keep critical infrastructure of Iran’s nuclear weapons program in place.
The Associated Press issued a clarification to a piece on a conspiracy theory about a number of Ferguson protesters following criticism from the Washington Free Beacon.
The White House determined Friday for the first time that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) no longer controls any territory in Syria.
Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has been holding a series of secret fundraisers with groups that have been tied to the support of terrorism, appearances that have been closed to the press and hidden from public view.
Two Democratic congresswomen on Thursday introduced the “End Diaper Need Act of 2019”, a bill they say “would create a $100 million demonstration program for distributing free diapers and diapering products in states, communities, and nonprofits around the nation to help reduce the diaper need in low-income families and underserved communities.”
