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Investigative reporters in 2017 exposed accusations of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein , Roy Moore and many others, documented what appears to be an appalling undercount of the hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico, and caught Michael Flynn in a lie that cost him his job as national security adviser and ultimately led to his criminal conviction and cooperation with a law enforcement investigation of Donald Trump's campaign. Yet conservative commentator Gayle Trotter said Sunday on Fox News that "when you think about independent, investigative journalism, we have seen kind of the death of that this past year."
The years are flying by faster than an egret can spear a sprat. I thought maybe I could slow things down by dating this column Dec. 34, 2017, but I decided it's time to move on.
President Donald Trump has broken lots and lots of norms during his first 347 days as President. But none are as flagrant or as important as his casual relationship with the truth and utter lack of regard for being factual.
One year ago, the U.S. pro audio industry was anxiously awaiting the impending outcome of the 600 MHz auction. We didn't know much except that RF products operating in the 600 MHz band would likely be phased out over the next three years.
On Tuesday, Delaware officials announced their plans to sue a United States government agency, after they reportedly filed four petitions in 2016 to request relief from air pollution from upwind states. The State of Delaware says on Tuesday, that it will send four Notice of Intent to Sue letters tot he United Sates Environmental Protection Agency regarding air pollution that comes into the state for other states.
Changes have been made to the existing list of tax-exempt student loan cancellations, after a local lawmaker says a new law will not tax student loans canceled as a result of death or permanent disability as income. The Office of United States Senator Chris Coons says on Tuesday, the Stop Taxing Death and Disabilities Act will eliminate the tax penalty on student loans that are forgiven due to death or permanent disability.
CNN commentator Keith Boykin said that Donald Trump and the Republicans need to approach Democrats with "open hands and open heart" to work on bipartisan legislation Tuesday. Boykin, appearing on CNN's "At This Hour With Kate Bolduan," said, "There's just so much hypocrisy there and Republicans have to-if you want the Democrats to work with you, you have to come with open hands and open heart."
Most of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. Tabulating student suicides comes with its own set of challenges and problems.
It isn't as if infrastructure expenditure is generally pure. There's always some grifter money to go around. The Trump infrastructure plan is basically add 50% more grift for the banksters . Huzzah.
President Donald Trump is taking credit for the safety of the U.S. aviation system even though it is being run by a holdover from the previous administration and has avoided any commercial passenger fatalities for several years before he took office. "Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation," Trump said in a tweet Tuesday morning.
Jeff Hoover will not resign as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives despite his Nov. 5 announcement he would do so in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. When the House convened Tuesday, it was Speaker Pro Tem David Osborne, R-Prospect, who gaveled it into session - standing behind a name plate indicating Hoover remains Speaker of the House.
Logan Paul, one of YouTube's biggest stars, treated a video he uploaded over the weekend as the equivalent of a TV sitcom's "very special episode." To indicate the seriousness of the matter to his young fans, Paul posted a warning at the beginning, telling viewers who are having thoughts of suicide or self harm to seek help.
Back in the 1990s, Congress wisely imposed budget-transparency mandates on federal government agencies. Being bureaucracies, they didn't always swiftly comply.
About two dozen Democrats are mulling the race for the White House including governors, senators, and House lawmakers, according to the network news. And NBC News reported former Vice President Joe Biden will be looking like a candidate this year as he plans to raise money for Democratic senators seeking re-election and get involved in House campaigns.
President Donald Trump has returned from an end-of year holiday to face fresh legislative challenges, midterm elections and threats abroad. The president began the second year of his presidency with confrontational tweets targeting Iran and Pakistan.
No other political figure has so dominated our discourse. And none, not Joe McCarthy in his heyday in the early '50s, nor Richard Nixon in Watergate, received such intensive and intemperate coverage and commentary as has our 45th president.
The head of a conservative Republican faction in the U.S. Congress, who voted this month for a huge expansion of the national debt to pay for tax cuts, called himself a "fiscal conservative" on Sunday and urged budget restraint in 2018. In keeping with a sharp pivot under way among Republicans, U.S. Representative Mark Meadows, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," drew a hard line on federal spending, which lawmakers are bracing to do battle over in January.
President Trump is on the hunt for a 2018 issue-a strong follow-up to his tax-cut victory that will motivate voters and gain bipartisan support. Democrats are pushing for an infrastructure bill, inviting the president to spend with them.
We've been watching this particular hush-hush DARPA project for more than two years now. In a nutshell, it calls for the creation of a new class of small, reusable drones that can be launched midair from a C-130 air transport, disperse to surveil targets as much as 300 miles away, then return to their flying airbase to dock for refueling and rearming.
British energy company BP said Tuesday its after-tax earnings from the United States would be supported by the 14 percent cut in the corporate tax rate. The British energy company said its after-tax earnings would be supported by a provision in the U.S. corporate tax overhaul, which dropped from 35 percent to 21 percent as of Jan. 1. "The ultimate impact of the change in the U.S. corporate income tax rate is subject to a number of complex provisions in the legislation which BP is reviewing," the company said in a statement .