House passes bill to address sexual harassment in Congress The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that would reform the way lawmakers’ offices handle cases sexual harassment. But their bill would weaken the authority of the independent entity currently probing lawmakers’ behavior, according to outside ethics watchdogs. The bill, […]
Latest US and world news
Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family A Texas teen who sparked a police investigation after she reportedly ran away with a suspected “internet predator” she met on Snapchat has died two months after being reunited with her family, her mother said. Heaven Ray Cox, 15, “left […]
The truth about Donald Trump’s ‘jokes’ There was President Donald Trump, on Monday, recounting the cold reception he received from Democrats during his State of the Union address a week earlier. “So that means they would rather see Trump do badly, OK, than our country do well. That’s what it […]
Dow Jones futures fall by 600 points after massive Monday sell-off Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid on Monday night, pointing to a possible Tuesday opening drop of more than 1,000 points, CNBC reported, following the largest-ever single-day point drop during regular Monday trading. Dow Jones futures fell […]
Audit finds Pentagon agency mishandled hundreds of millions of dollars The Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency failed to properly document hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of funding for construction projects, according to an internal audit performed by the auditor Ernst & Young. It is the first year that the audit […]
New bipartisan immigration plan introduced in Senate by McCain and Coons Two senators eager to see Congress start crossing items off its long to-do list introduced a bipartisan plan Monday designed to settle two of the more pressing parts of the immigration debate and let lawmakers move on to other […]
Dow closes down nearly 1,200 points in volatile trading The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,175 points Monday in an exceptionally volatile day for financial markets around the world, stirring concerns about the durability of the long-running stock gains. In the biggest global sell-off since 2016, financial markets from Asia […]
Breakingviews – U.S. stock plunge is a welcome reality check President Donald Trump may regret attaching himself so closely to the stock market. U.S. indexes fell over 4 percent on Monday and share-price volatility at one point surged to a seven-year high. A breather – at a minimum – was […]
Cynthia Nixon, potential Cuomo challenger, calls for ‘better Democrats’ to run in 2018 Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run “bluer Democrats” in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Gov. Andrew […]
White House withdraws controversial nominee to head Council on Environmental Quality The White House has withdrawn its controversial nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, whose selection failed to gather momentum with some Senate Republicans raising questions about her expertise. The administration released a statement Sunday […]
