After decades of decline unions have found a new champion in efforts to organize workers: the Black Lives Matter movement. Unions have suffered as manufacturing has moved south away from ...
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White House plan calls for $1.5 trillion in investments to fix nation’s infrastructure
The White House Monday will unveil the main objectives it wants Congress to include in a legislative plan to try to tackle the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. A senior administration official ...
Read More »Blackout hits northern Puerto Rico following fire, explosion
An explosion and fire at an electric substation threw much of northern Puerto Rico into darkness late Sunday in a setback for the U.S. territory’s efforts to fully restore power ...
Read More »Mike Pence: “we talk to North Korea”
The U.S. is ready to engage in talks about North Korea’s nuclear program even as it maintains pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime, Vice President Mike Pence said, signaling a ...
Read More »Jennie Willoughby lashes back at Trump
Jennie Willoughby, the ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, lashed back at President Donald Trump Sunday, saying Trump has implied she’s “a liar” after going public about ...
Read More »A budget the likes of which the Pentagon has never seen
It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military ...
Read More »Trump asked Theresa May to visit Churchill’s underground WW2 bunker
Sources said Mr Trump has requested a trip to the Cabinet War Rooms, where Mr Churchill planned military strategies during World War 2. The Republican is believed to have been inspired ...
Read More »US intelligence officials sent coded messages via Twitter to Russian spy
US intelligence officials used Twitter to send “nearly a dozen” coded messages to a Russian spy who claimed to have in his possession the National Security Agency (NSA) data stolen by the hacking group ...
Read More »US intelligence paid $100,000 to Russian who claimed to have compromising information on Trump
A Russian who offered US intelligence officials stolen cyberweapons and compromising material on Donald Trump took $100,000 (£72,000) but failed to provide any of the promised goods, according to a New York Times report. The payment, ...
Read More »Pence refuses to stand for any country except the U.S.
Vice President Pence reportedly did not stand when the joint Korean delegation entered at the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies. Pence, who led the U.S. delegation to the games in Pyeongchang, ...
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