by Matt Sussis | Sep 27, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON– President Donald Trump’s newly released tax plan could send billions of dollars of cash currently held overseas back to the United States. As noted in the White House statement released Wednesday, the plan “ends the perverse incentive to keep foreign...
by Yingjie Gu & Ricky Zipp | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris grilled Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke Wednesday on whether customs officials will share information about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, but Duke said she didn’t know what the...
by Matt Sussis | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Politics
Donald Trump unveils the detail of his tax reform plan at a rally in Indianapolis. Reporter Matt Sussis provided live commentary during the speech below: President Trump Reveals Tax Plan (09/27/2017) 3:12 Standing by for President Trump to begin speaking. Wednesday...
by Oyin Falana | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON– The Veterans Affairs Department plan to hire 1,000 additional mental health professionals to help reduce the number of veterans’ suicides has been stalled because it can’t get hiring authority from Congress, VA Secretary David Shulkin told a Senate...
by Kevin Schmidt | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee Wednesday that the FBI treats domestic terrorist threats as seriously as foreign threats and has arrested 176 people on domestic terrorism charges this year. “We take both of them very, very seriously,”...
by Ricky Zipp | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A group of progressives gathered in Washington this weekend to try to lure Sen. Bernie Sanders to lead the creation of new political party, but the former Democratic presidential candidate was a no-show. Nevertheless, the group calling itself Draft Bernie...