As 2017 winds down, Des Moines hospitals are revealing the most popular baby names in their maternity wards. Among the top first forenames for boys, Oliver climbed to second while James was down to third and Lewis remained in fourth place. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile, they fired a ballistic missile targeting the Yamama palace, according to Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for the Shiite rebels in Yemen. Saudi state television said it was intercepted just south of the city and no damage has been reported, but witnesses in the capital have posted images on social media of smoke billowing into the air. [Full Article...]
Positive train control - the technology that can slow or stop a speeding train - wasn't in use on this stretch of track, according to Amtrak President Richard Anderson. The high-speed train was making its first run on newly constructed tracks when it derailed before 8 a.m. Monday. By law, PTC must be installed on all passenger rail systems by 2018, a deadline that has repeatedly been delayed a... [Full Article...]
The HRW report comes as the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, reiterated his belief that what was happening to the Rohingya could amount to genocide. The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages. [Full Article...]
The big outstanding questions are the deals she made with McConnell outside of the tax bill - those related to health care provisions in a year-end spending deal. Needlessly rushing a massive special-interest tax bill through Congress is the antithesis of good government. For a bill that sold itself on simplification of the tax code, whether the GOP tax reforms will help or hurt you is hard to... [Full Article...]
In October, a Russian court fined Telegram $14,000 for refusing to provide security officials with information about an April attack on St. Petersburg's subway that killed 16 people and injured more than 50. "It can not be called anything but an ideal example of cooperation in fighting terrorism", Peskov told reporters at a conference call. Police confiscated a large number of explosives used to... [Full Article...]
Analysts say the explosive growth in the value of bitcoin makes it and other "cryptocurrencies" an attractive target for North Korea, which has become increasingly isolated under global sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons and missile programs. [Full Article...]
Nearly eleven hundred pages long , the final bill is just as regressive and fiscally irresponsible as either of the two earlier bills, and it is arguably more so. Brady said this will be the last April Americans will have to file under this "horrible broken tax code so there is a lot to be happy about". "It's a huge giveaway to big corporations". [Full Article...]
As 2017 winds down, Des Moines hospitals are revealing the most popular baby names in their maternity wards. Among the top first forenames for boys, Oliver climbed to second while James was down to third and Lewis remained in fourth place. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile, they fired a ballistic missile targeting the Yamama palace, according to Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for the Shiite rebels in Yemen. Saudi state television said it was intercepted just south of the city and no damage has been reported, but witnesses in the capital have posted images on social media of smoke billowing into the air. [Full Article...]
Positive train control - the technology that can slow or stop a speeding train - wasn't in use on this stretch of track, according to Amtrak President Richard Anderson. The high-speed train was making its first run on newly constructed tracks when it derailed before 8 a.m. Monday. By law, PTC must be installed on all passenger rail systems by 2018, a deadline that has repeatedly been delayed a... [Full Article...]
The HRW report comes as the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, reiterated his belief that what was happening to the Rohingya could amount to genocide. The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages. [Full Article...]
The big outstanding questions are the deals she made with McConnell outside of the tax bill - those related to health care provisions in a year-end spending deal. Needlessly rushing a massive special-interest tax bill through Congress is the antithesis of good government. For a bill that sold itself on simplification of the tax code, whether the GOP tax reforms will help or hurt you is hard to... [Full Article...]
In October, a Russian court fined Telegram $14,000 for refusing to provide security officials with information about an April attack on St. Petersburg's subway that killed 16 people and injured more than 50. "It can not be called anything but an ideal example of cooperation in fighting terrorism", Peskov told reporters at a conference call. Police confiscated a large number of explosives used to... [Full Article...]
Analysts say the explosive growth in the value of bitcoin makes it and other "cryptocurrencies" an attractive target for North Korea, which has become increasingly isolated under global sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons and missile programs. [Full Article...]
Nearly eleven hundred pages long , the final bill is just as regressive and fiscally irresponsible as either of the two earlier bills, and it is arguably more so. Brady said this will be the last April Americans will have to file under this "horrible broken tax code so there is a lot to be happy about". "It's a huge giveaway to big corporations". [Full Article...]