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Feb 25 2013
News
Sequester Will Slow Tax Refunds
Income tax refunds will take longer to reach taxpayers if automatic government spending cuts go into effect as planned, experts warned on Monday.
Newsmax (News)Aug 09 2021
News
The Democrats who could run to replace Cuomo
ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not thrown in the towel on his future yet, it’s probably a safe bet to assume he will not be elected to a fourth term in 2022.
Despite the crescendo of calls for the New York governor to step down early, no Democrats have yet declared their intentions to run to succeed him. And there’s plenty of time for wild cards — perhaps a celebrity or
PoliticoMar 18 2020
Opinion
This crisis calls for massive government intervention: here's how to do it
Coronavirus threatens the world’s economic life, and current proposals from governments around the globe are failing to match the scale of the crisis. Today, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced £330bn of loans and that some companies would not have to pay business rates for the next 12 months. While loans help businesses in the short term, they do not compensate for losses and only allow
The GuardianJul 26 2014
News
10,000 Bodies: Inside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Crackdown
At Hospital 601, not far from the presidential palace in Damascus, Syrian guards ran out of space to store the dead and had to use an adjoining warehouse where military vehicles were repaired.
A forensic photographer working for Syria's military police walked the rows and took pictures of the emaciated and disfigured corpses, most believed to be anti-Assad activists. Numbers written on
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 02 2015
News
Obama Proposes One-Time 14% Tax on Overseas Earnings
President Barack Obama is making an opening bid on overhauling corporate taxes and linking it to boosting infrastructure spending, a move that could clear a rare path toward common ground in a deeply divided capital.
Wall Street Journal (News)May 09 2020
Opinion
COVID-19 Conspiracists and Their Discontents
One reason why it’s surprisingly difficult to disprove many conspiracy theories is that they typically contain a real germ of truth, however small. In some places and eras, Jews really were overrepresented among communist cadres and the media. John F. Kennedy’s administration really did propose false-flag operations as an excuse to invade Cuba and assassinate Fidel Castro. Certain aspects of
QuilletteSep 01 2020
News
Over $300 Billion Lost in Exports From Tourism Due to COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
Over $300 billion has been lost globally in exports from international tourism, meaning spending by international tourists, following travel restrictions put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report.
Published by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the report states that around the world there were 56 percent fewer international tourists
NewsweekNov 05 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Negativity Wins the Senate
Republicans would like the country to believe that they took control of the Senate on Tuesday by advocating a strong, appealing agenda of job creation, tax reform and spending cuts. But, in reality, they did nothing of the sort.
New York Times (News)Oct 08 2015
News
Congress reportedly investigating possible intel lapses over Russian presence in Syria
U.S. lawmakers have begun investigating possible intelligence lapses related to Russias ongoing military action in Syria it was reported early Thursday as NATO defense ministers held a crisis meeting in Brussels.
Fox News DigitalJul 13 2020
News
A Year After Prison, He Has a Job, a Fiancée—And a Week Left of Freedom
By the time Richard Midkiff walked out of a Florida prison last year at age 42, he had spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he committed when he was 19.Midkiff has now restarted his life: A full-time paralegal in Ocala, Florida, and the president of the board of a national organization providing legal help to incarcerated people, he begins his busy workdays at 5 a.m. And last
The Marshall Project