It doesn’t take long for Katherine Bennett’s frustration to boil over when the issue of Brexit is raised. “It’s not as easy as Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks,” said the boss of Airbus UK. “We don’t just… Read More
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Wilbur Ross Says He Will Sell Stock After Watchdog Warns of Potential for Criminal Violation
WASHINGTON — Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, said he would sell all of his remaining stock holdings after the Office of Government Ethics faulted him for continuing to maintain investments that he was required to… Read More
Illinois governor profits off ICE detention center contracts
CHICAGO — Gov. Bruce Rauner this year reported a profit from a private equity fund that owns a health care group servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, including facilities that hold immigrant families… Read More
Opinion | $111 Billion in Tax Cuts for the Top 1 Percent
First, let’s try a little thought experiment: Whenever President Trump starts talking about NATO, imagine what Vladimir Putin would want Trump to say. Then compare it to what Trump actually says. The two are often… Read More
I Weep for the Children of the Terror Migration
by Rick Spisak And for our grandchildren and their children who will reap the awful fruits of these UGLY CRIMES AGAINST JUSTICE. To call these abuses a mockery of justice is insufficient, they remain a… Read More
Thousands of Scots take to streets as Trump plays golf
Three generations of one family were sitting in the sunshine in #Edinburgh’s Meadows park, just south of the city centre, as guitar chords floated across from the protest stage and a police helicopter whirled overhead…. Read More
Mattis vs. Trump vs. NATO vs. Putin vs. Mueller before midterms
by Brent Budowsky There is great trepidation throughout the free world and the American electorate as President Trump prepares to meet first with our North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and then with Russian strongman… Read More
Ex-Health Secretary Tom Price Wasted $341,000 on Improper Travel, Inquiry Finds
WASHINGTON — Tom Price, the former secretary of health and human services, repeatedly violated government travel rules and wasted at least $341,000 by billing taxpayers for his use of chartered jets and military aircraft, federal… Read More