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Experts, lawmakers: NASA should focus more on Mars, less on moon

Experts, lawmakers: NASA should focus more on Mars, less on moon

by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu & Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Jul 27, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) — Senators criticized NASA Wednesday for not spending enough money on the Trump administration-backed mission of sending humans to Mars in near future — urging the agency to make “tough decisions” and focus more on...
Children protest immigration policy on Capitol Hill

Children protest immigration policy on Capitol Hill

by Loumay Alesali | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON— Dozens of parents and children marched to Capitol Hill Thursday morning to demonstrate against family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and to highlight the Thursday deadline...
FTC’s oversight may overprotect consumers and chill small businesses

FTC’s oversight may overprotect consumers and chill small businesses

by Charlene Zhang | Jul 26, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission’s is too aggressive in trying to prevent fraud by payment processors that act as middlemen between online retailers and banks, catching legitimate processors in its attempt to stop scam, Electronic Transaction...

Federal Apprentice Rules Too Rigid, Industry Leaders Tell Senators

by Brian Baker | Jul 26, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON – Government rules for federally registered apprenticeship programs are too restrictive, forcing the manufacturing, construction and health care industries to create their own programs, industry leaders told a Senate committee Thursday. “We have an...

Helsinki Commission calls for U.S. to pass international anti-doping law

by Athena Liu | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured, Sports

WASHINGTON — The United States needs to pass its first international sports anti-doping law to criminalize the overuse of performance-enhancing drugs so that U.S. athletes aren’t at a disadvantage in the Olympics and other international competitions, the...

U.S., EU strike deal to avoid transatlantic trade war

by Giulia Petroni | Jul 25, 2018 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON – The United States and the European Union have agreed to drop all tariffs, trade barriers and subsidies, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday at a joint news conference with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Trump said they...
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