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Cramer reflects on why keeping cash on hand is a good thing and also explores the lack of any conviction to the downside. Is that all there is? Was that it to the selloff? Point blank, I am going to tell you no.
San Juan County Sheriffs Office Deputy Robyn Roe poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 in Aztec, N.M. Roe recently became the first female SWAT operator for the department. less San Juan County Sheriffs Office Deputy Robyn Roe poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 in Aztec, N.M. Roe recently became the first female SWAT operator for the department.
Faced with an unreceptive Legislature, advocates for marijuana legalization, guaranteed paid sick leave and a host of other bills are banking that you will embrace them at the ballot box - if the proposals make it there. Organizers so far have launched seven initiatives for the November 2018 statewide election and need to collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures to qualify.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday announced a new spending plan that would eliminate state education aid to 85 school districts and reduce school aid to another 54 cities and towns, if the state budget impasse isn't resolved by next month. A new executive order by the Democratic governor would provide $1.46 billion to school districts with the highest student needs and greatest reliance on state aid.
President Donald Trump shocked political observers on Tuesday by blaming "both sides" for the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend, and by walking back some of his criticism of the white nationalist groups that convened there. At one point, Trump shifted the blame to the "alt-left," an apparent reference to counter-protesters who clashed with the white nationalists.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events For decades, it seemed like the world was on an unstoppable march toward closer integration. The world was flat and getting flatter, thanks to the spread of multinational corporations, new technologies like the internet and international migration, all of which knit together far-flung countries around the world.
One would think these would be happy days again for the Democratic Party of California. For one thing, there is probably no easier place to be a Democrat, given the party's utter dominance of state government.
Only a small number of U.S. tax, finance and business professionals expect President Donald Trump's 15% corporate tax rate to become reality as part of tax reform, according to a Deloitte Tax LLP survey released on Tuesday. The poll of more than 3,100 people offered a glimpse of private-sector expectations about tax reform that are less optimistic than public statements from Trump administration officials and lawmakers.
CVS Health, the No.2 U.S. drugstore chain by store count, reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, as its pharmacy benefits management business serviced more claims and demand for its specialty pharmacy services rose. Revenue in CVS Health's pharmacy services business, which includes the pharmacy benefits manager business and specialty pharmacy services, rose 9.5 percent to $32.3 billion in the second quarter ended June 30. This was helped by a 10.3 percent rise in claims processed by the PBM business and higher demand for its specialty pharmacy services, which provides expensive drugs to people with chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Sen. John Kennedy, (R-La.) on Democrats blocking President Trump's nominations, the state of health care and tax reform and the White House distractions from the Republican agenda. Senator John Kennedy told the FOX Business Network's Stuart Varney Tuesday that it's time for the Senate to "grow up."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday appointed new leaders for the agency that controls the region's airports, bridges and tunnels. Kevin O'Toole, a Republican former New Jersey state senator, was named chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
A tax reform bill could reach President Trump's desk by year end, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady said Sunday. "We're on that timetable to do it," Brady, R-Texas, told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
The Trump administration announced sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials on Wednesday as it tries to deter the nation's president, Nicolas Maduro, from proceeding with a plan to rewrite the nation's constitution. The move against the officials -- the third round of sanctions against Venezuelans under the Trump administration -- is one offshoot of a broader U.S. probe into corruption allegations that began several years ago and has resulted in some criminal charges.
Activists and internet companies are protesting Wednesday a proposed quash of net neutrality protections by the FCC. Here's what the likes of Amazon, Netflix and internet users say would happen to your internet access with the rollback.
DSL Reports: The Federal Communications Commission on Friday quietly approved the transfer of seven major television station licenses owned by Bluestone Television/Bonten Media to Sinclair Broadcast Group -- without informing the agency's sole Democratic commissioner, Mignon Clyburn. ... [FCC chairman Ajit] Pai has long opposed media ownership and consolidation limits, and unsurprisingly has made letting these companies grow immensely larger his top agency priority.
United Airlines has apologized to a passenger who was forced to give up her 2-year-old son's seat and hold the child on a flight - until her leg and arm went numb. Shirley Yamauchi, a middle school teacher from Hawaii, was bound for a teacher's conference in Boston last week, she told Hawaii News Now .
U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose during a family phto at the Greek Theatre during a G7 summit in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX37RGG U.S. President Donald Trump will get a chance to patch up trans-Atlantic ties this week when he meets with NATO allies still rattled by his failure on an earlier trip to embrace the principle that an attack against one member is an attack against all.
The 2017 BrandZ Survey of Top 100 Global Brands determined Visa had the world's seventh most valuable brand. In truth, it would be hard to find a consumer anywhere in the developed world who doesn't recognize the company's name or immediately identify it as the emblem that is emblazoned across most of the beloved plastic rectangles we carry in our wallets.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed in phone talks that they would step up pressure on North Korea in cooperation with South Korea, a Japanese government spokesman said on Monday. The bilateral talks were aimed at confirming close cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea before a Group of 20 summit meeting to be held in Hamburg, Germany, later this week, the spokesman said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he planned to nominate a Federal Communications Commission attorney to fill one of two vacant seats at the nation's telecommunications regulatory agency. The White House said Trump would name Brendan Carr, a Republican who previously served as an adviser to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, to an open seat.