by Mengjie(Jessie) Jiang | Jul 18, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON–U.S. and China have different goals for the Wednesday bilateral economic dialogue: President Donald Trump wants tangible success in reducing the U.S. trade deficit with China, while Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to keep the status quo, a number...
by Haley Velasco | Jul 18, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — The future of consumer spending? Visa Inc. (V) is betting on cashless. And to further its vision and aid in the transition to a system that it thinks can generate almost $7 billion in New York City alone and save more than almost 200 million hours in...
by Darnell Pearson | Jul 15, 2017 | Featured, Players, Sports
READING, PA – Ten-hour bus rides, rooming with six other guys just to keep the cost of rent manageable and making less than $40,000 a year – 27-year-old Nick Rickles chose that lifestyle to pursue his career goal. Rickles, a catcher on the Reading Fightin Phils, would...
by Katherine Hyunjung Lee | Jul 13, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON-The lack of a clear U.S. trade policy is forcing American manufacturers to slow growth plans, especially because of the uncertainty over how nations may respond to President Donald Trump’s protectionist rhetoric, business leaders said Thursday during...
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by Beixi Xu | Jul 13, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters from more than a dozen states demonstrated at a Capitol Hill church Wednesday to oppose the Trump administration’s proposed $7 billion cut to federal housing programs. Holding signs that said “No cuts to our funding” and “Stop...
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by Ritu Prasad | Jul 13, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON-The best thing the government can do for the space market is simple: continue funding foundational science while leaving room for commercial industry to grow, according to aerospace industry experts. At the 6th annual Future Space 2017 event on Capitol Hill...
