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Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a plan to overhaul the U.S. tax code that would delay an immediate corporate tax cut President Donald Trump has demanded and scrap House Republicans' carefully crafted compromise on a contentious tax deduction. GOP Senate leaders unveiled a tax package that would delay cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent until 2019.
The GM Contamination Register database is run by Genewatch and Greenpeace and contains cases of genetically modified contamination dating from 1997. The authors of a 2014 paper , published in the International Journal of Food Contamination, analysed 400 or so cases in the database by crop and country.
The political hypocrisy of crony capitalism - touting market capitalism while making taxpayers fund corporate welfare - is a rare and unfortunate case of bipartisan consensus. Republicans openly embrace it, but many Democrats also fall prey to government-guaranteed corporate capitalism when they believe it to be politically expedient.
At Smith College, academic Loretta Ross recently gave a talk on, "Connections Between Far Right, Religious Right, Economic Conservatives, Libertarians, and Traditional Bigotry." Ross is just the latest example of writers and academics who mistakenly conflate libertarianism and the alt-right.
Citizens have been swamped by the tidal wave of corruption associated with or emanating from the Trump campaign and presidency, but late last week brought affirmation of a long-held belief that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee rigged the primary campaign against populist Bernie Sanders. The revelations emanated from none other than Donna Brazile, the woman who sat in as the DNC's chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was deposed for exactly the corruption Brazile now exposes.
Almost half of Americans favor requiring young men and women to give a year of service to the nation. But a majority of the group most likely to be affected -- those under the age of 30 -- oppose the idea.
New Hampshire's governor and members of the state's congressional delegation will come together to remember the nation's veterans. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu will offer remarks Saturday starting at 11 a.m. at the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.
South Korean naval vessels will join the U.S. in a rare military drill that will feature three U.S. aircraft carriers in the western Pacific later this week. The USS Ronald Reagan, based in Japan; the USS Theodore Roosevelt, based in San Diego; and the USS Nimitz, based at Naval Base Kitsap at Bremerton, Washington, are all participating in the exercise from Saturday through next Tuesday.
In the wake of the attack at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last weekend that left 26 people dead and investigators unable to access the shooter's encrypted phone to search for possible leads, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made clear in a speech Thursday that he is prepared to do battle with technology giants to get whatever might be stored on that device. "Nobody has a legitimate privacy interest in that phone.
Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts. Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will be joining two of his p... The latest push in a decadeslong effort to commercialize Alaska's natural gas got a boost from a deal with three Chinese companies, but the $43 billion project is far from reality. The latest push in a decadeslong effort to commercialize Alaska's natural gas got a boost from a deal with three Chinese companies, but the $43 billion project is far from reality.
The civil war among Democrats in the state Senate is escalating, with progressive activists planning to call 1,000 voters in each district of eight Democratic senators who have teamed up with Republicans. "Are you aware that your state senator who is up for re-election is aligned with Republicans?" the robo-calls will say, according to Arthur Schwartz, treasurer of the Progressive Action Network.
The Latest on the court-martial of a Marine Corps drill instructor on charges including cruelty and maltreatment of recruits : A military jury has convicted a Marine Corps drill instructor of abusing young recruits and then lying about his actions to investigators. The eight-man jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, decided Thursday that Gunnery Sgt.
Judge Jim Bob Darnell issued Wednesday an order of execution for 37-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez III, who was convicted and sentenced to death by a Randall County jury for the 2005 slaying of a pregnant woman whose body was stuffed inside luggage found at the Lubbock city landfill. Darnell's order comes two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Rodriguez's appeal and sets a March 27 date for his execution by lethal injection.
As it has so often in the past, Congress is making the end of the year difficult for accountants and tax practitioners, dragging tax legislation out to the last minute with a maximum of confusion and a minimum of advanced warning. The simultaneous release on Thursday of the Senate's proposals for tax reform and the House Ways and Means Committee's markup of an earlier House bill may bring the tax reform process closer to some kind of end, but they provide few, if any, actionable items for tax professionals to bring to their clients, and in fact may end up threatening the entire reform effort.
The last of the debris piles in Palm Coast and unincorporated Flagler County will be removed from residential streets in coming days. County officials announced Tuesday that crews have completed debris cleanup from Hurricane Irma and had collected nearly 37,400 cubic yards of vegetative debris along with 888 cubic yards of construction and demolition debris.
While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely. Fresh evidence that Smith is an island unto himself at the news network came in research released Thursday by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Hillary Clinton says the wave of Democratic victories in Tuesday's elections showed that "hope beat hate" and that the country is "one step closer to an America that is fairer." Clinton made the remarks Thursday night in Milwaukee's Riverside Theater where she promoted her new book, entitled "What Happened."
Oroville >> Representatives for Oroville and downstream communities affected by the spillway crisis said they got the attention they were seeking in Washington this week. Sen. Jim Nielsen, Assemblyman James Gallagher, and members of the Oroville Dam Coalition are seeking federal assistance on issues relating to the dam they say need to be resolved.
One of the people killed when a gunman opened fire at a small-town Texas church was a 56-year-old Sunday school teacher who relatives say threw herself in front of her 18-year-old grandson. One of the people killed when a gunman opened fire at a small-town Texas church was a 56-year-old Sunday school teacher who relatives say threw herself in front of her 18-year-old grandson.