WASHINGTON (AP) – A new government report estimates that this year’s budget deficit will rise to $544 billion, an increase over prior estimates that can be attributed largely to tax cuts and spending increases passed by Congress last month. The estimate from the Congressional Budget Office also sees the economy growing at a significantly slower…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Florida Rep. David Jolly promises not to ask for money. The Republican, who is running in one of the year’s most competitive – and expensive – Senate races, says that as of this month he personally has sworn off fundraising. He’s leaving that duty to his professional campaign fundraisers, vowing not to…
Traffic was stopped as officers rounded up the animals
FLINT, Mich. (AP) – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is making Flint’s water crisis a political issue. Clinton said during Sunday’s Democratic debate that Snyder has “acted as though he didn’t really care” about the crisis. But Snyder told The Detroit News on Monday after speaking at a Martin Luther…
According to the report just 62 people own the same wealth as half the planet. The compares with 388 people just five years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military has released its first official account of Iran’s seizure and subsequent release of 10 U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf who strayed into Iranian waters last week in small boats. The account U.S. Central Command offered on Monday adds some detail to what was already known about the incident,…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A study shows the amount of man-made heat energy the oceans have absorbed since 1997 is equivalent to a Hiroshima-style bomb being exploded every second for 75 straight years. That’s double the heat energy the waters were absorbing before 1997. Scientists have long known that more than 90 percent of the heat…
