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China's pension shortfall is emerging as the next big challenge for policy makers as they intensify their years-long campaign to keep rising debt from derailing the economy. Aging in the world's most populous country means pension contributions by workers no longer cover retiree benefits, forcing the government to fill that gap since at least 2014.
President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of being "un-American" and maybe even treasonous for failing to applaud him during his State of the Union speech. Trump says during a speech in Blue Ash, Ohio, that the Democrats last week gave off "bad energy" as he delivered his first State of the Union, failing to clap even at positive economic news.
Parents of Otto Warmbier, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, are acknowledged during the State of the Union address. WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence has invited the father of the late former North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
President Trump signaled its return to the forefront of national policy debates in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, when he announced a plan to "lift our citizens from welfare to work." He shouldn't have trouble finding support for it: With a collective of pro-reform officials leading key agencies, and with longtime entitlement crusader Paul Ryan as speaker of the House, the GOP in 2018 will have its best chance in a generation to make major changes to the country's safety-net programs, including Medicaid and food stamps.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently moved its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight , citing in part President Trump's rhetoric on nuclear weapons and minimizing of the science on climate change. According to this panel of experts and their symbolic clock, we are now two minutes from a human made global catastrophe - the closest we have come since the Cold War in 1953.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania view the Florida Atlantic University Marching Band at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, as they arrive for a Super Bowl party. less President Donald Trump and first lady Melania view the Florida Atlantic University Marching Band at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, as they arrive for a Super Bowl ... more In this Jan. 30, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
In this Sept. 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and others members of the House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
President Trump's call for unity and bipartisanship during his State of the Union on Tuesday wasn't the only appeal for a break from the hyper-partisan atmosphere that has engulfed Washington, D.C. Along with the president, justices on the Supreme Court on at least two separate and unrelated occasions in as many weeks spoke to the need for civility. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, during a speech at Stockton University in New Jersey last week, and again by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who sits on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum from Gorsuch, in two different events.
Guests Christine Hallquist possible Democratic candidate for Governor. Also Middlebury College Political Scientist Matt Dickinson to discuss the State of the Union address and Sen. Bernie Sanders' response.
The father of the late Otto Warmbier, an American student who was jailed in North Korea, will attend the Olympic opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Fred Warmbier will attend as the guest of Vice President Mike Pence, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump sucker punched beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by reminding them that he considers them to be nothing more than "illegal immigrants," simultaneously declaring that American citizens are the ones worthy of being called "Dreamers." Trump's senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, crafted those toxic words and injected into the president's State of the Union address with intentions to pour gasoline over the heated debate between Democrats and Republicans concerning the fate of 800,000 aspiring Americans without legal status in the United States.
Conservative CNN contributor Rick Santorum got shot down on a CNN panel on Sunday after he asserted that there was a conspiracy between President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the FBI to take down Donald Trump. During an panel discussion on CNN's State of the Union , host Jake Tapper asked Santorum if he agreed with Donald Trump Jr. that the controversial GOP memo smearing the FBI's Russia was "sweet revenge" for Trump supporters.
Democrats on Sunday sharpened their rhetoric in the clash over the investigation into Trump campaign links to Russia, warning the president that firing top law enforcement officials could "lead to a confrontation we do not need in America." The warnings came two days after the Republican-led House intelligence committee released a declassified memo that claims that Democrat-funded research prompted the FBI to spy on a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.
As his administration crafts a $1.5 trillion plan to improve the nation's crumbling system of roads, bridges and other infrastructure, the former New York real estate mogul used the State of the Union address Tuesday to complain once again about how frustratingly long it takes to construct and repair things in America. "We built the Empire State Building in just one year.
Democrats on Sunday argued that the release of a controversial memo accusing the Justice Department of surveillance abuses does not vindicate Donald John Trump Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo Davis: 'Deep state' existed in '16 - but it elected Trump Former Trump legal spokesman to testify to Mueller about undisclosed call: report MORE Trump made the claim that the memo "totally vindicates" him in the Russia investigation in a tweet following the memo's release Friday.
Nebraska residents could see their health insurance premiums spike in future years now that Congress has gutted the legal requirement to purchase coverage, but advocates say it's too early to know how much prices could rise.
''Saturday Night Live'' kicked off this week's episode with a cold open sketch that lampooned ''Fox and Friends'' and included a cameo from President Donald Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin. ''Saturday Night Live'' kicked off this week's episode with a cold open sketch that lampooned ''Fox and Friends'' and included a cameo from President Donald Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin, watching the morning show from bed.
To hear one of the most passionate arguments on behalf of young U.S. immigrant "dreamers," look south of the border. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has become known as an antagonist of President Donald Trump , using combative and profane language to rail against the president's character and his positions on binational issues, from plans to extend the border wall to restrictionist policies on immigration.
CNN.com posted an article by its reporters Dan Merica and Eric Bradner on Wednesday headlined " How #MeToo could knock the Clintons off the 2018 map." Their own history of dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and assault could haunt Democrats in the midterms.