[aggregation-styles] NY Daily News Most of New York’s congressional Republicans broke party ranks this week and condemned the Trump administration for stripping millions of dollars from the FDNY’s 9/11 health care program — even as GOP leaders and lawmakers from other states remained conspicuously silent. As first reported by the...
Walmart Plus Launches, Here’s How It Compares To Amazon Prime
[aggregation-styles] Good Morning America Amazon Prime has a new competitor now: Walmart's newly launched membership program and delivery service. Customers can sign up Tuesday for Walmart+. The program combines Walmart's in-store and online benefits for $98 a year or $12.95 a month and has a 15-day trial period. The membership...
Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s Bizarre, Unfounded Speculation That Biden Is on Drugs
[aggregation-styles] Mashable The first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is scheduled to take place on September 29, just two weeks away. As such, Trump is busy preparing in the lead up to this important event — by accusing Biden of taking drugs. "'Ya caught...
Gov. Newsom Backs Prop. 15 ‘Split Roll’ Property Tax Increase on Business
[aggregation-styles] California Globe On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom threw his support behind Proposition 15, which would change how both commercial and industrial properties are taxed, leading to immediate outcry from businesses, industry leaders, and tax groups across the state. Prop 15 would amend the constitution and change the current tax...
Warmer. Burning. Epidemic-Challenged. Expensive. the California Dream Has Become the California Compromise.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription SAN FRANCISCO — The cityscape resembles the surface of a distant planet, populated by a masked alien culture. The air, choked with blown ash, is difficult to breathe. There is the Golden Gate Bridge, looming in the distance through a drift-smoke haze, and the Salesforce...
‘You Can’t Manage It’: Agriculture Undersecretary Takes Heat During North State Visit
[aggregation-styles] Redding Record Spotlight As California burns, the U.S. undersecretary of agriculture got an earful of criticism Tuesday about how the the nation's forests are being managed. As part of his visit to the North State on Tuesday to learn more about the fires, U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Jim...
California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands
[aggregation-styles] Hoover Institution California businesses are leaving the state in droves. In just 2018 and 2019—economic boom years—765 commercial facilities left California. This exodus doesn’t count Charles Schwab’s announcement to leave San Francisco next year. Nor does it include the 13,000 estimated businesses to have left between 2009 and 2016....
Mike Bloomberg To Spend at Least $100 Million in Florida To Benefit Joe Biden
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to spend at least $100 million in Florida to help elect Democrat Joe Biden, a massive late-stage infusion of cash that could reshape the presidential contest in a costly toss-up state central to President Trump’s reelection hopes. Bloomberg...
Rohingya Crisis: Relocation Plan Meets Opposition
[aggregation-styles] Al Jazeera The Bangladeshi government wants to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal. But some are opposing the plan, while UN agencies are questioning whether the new site is suitable. Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports. Read More → By Tanvir...
Trump Finally Releases Controversial Drug Price Executive Order
[aggregation-styles] CNN More than seven weeks after President Donald Trump signed four executive orders aimed at lowering drug prices, the White House finally released Sunday perhaps the most controversial one. It calls for Medicare to test paying the same price for certain expensive prescription drugs that other developed countries do,...