Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional funds for border ...
Since the original sugar tariff of 1789, US government policy has been to subsidize sugar, a policy that has led to serious consequences, including a health crisis of obesity. Original Article: America the Obese: How Taxpayers Are Forced to Ruin ...
Why is Israel a primary benefactor of United States foreign aid? Is Israel a proxy for US imperialism in the Middle East? Does American aid to Israel benefit constituencies other than the defense industry? The ongoing feud between Israel and ...
What do the terms ‘malware’ and ‘ransomware’ mean to you? Probably not very much given that they sound more like plot lines from an Ian Flemming novel rather than very real threats to the stability and viability of our businesses. ...
Support from UK Export Finance means that British firms have secured contracts to upgrade critical infrastructure in Benguela Province and protect the region against future flooding. The UK government has issued guarantees which secure Standard Chartered Bank to arrange financing ...
More than 200,000 pensioners were left out of pocket by a total of £1.3bn last year and many will never be repaid because of lax record keeping, according to parliament’s spending watchdog. Computer errors at the Department for Work and ...
The boardroom veteran Rupert Soames is to become the next president of the CBI, the business lobby group that is trying to recover from an existential workplace misconduct scandal. Soames, 64, will begin to take on the role early next ...
SYDNEY — Australia Post will soon end daily letter deliveries as part of a series of postal reforms announced on Wednesday designed to modernize the government-owned postal service and help it turn a profit. Letters will only be delivered every ...
BOSTON — US President Joseph R. Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks. Speaking at a political fundraiser in ...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING — Gold buyers in China are getting younger, as a property market downturn, weakening stocks and currency and low bank deposit interest rates have left them with dwindling options to save for rainy days in a sputtering economy. The ...