Washington DC News
- Mayors to Presidential Candidates: Let’s Talk Infrastructure 21 Jan 2020 16:51 Odessa American WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 21, 2020-- According to Boston University’s 2019 Menino Survey of Mayors – the only national representative survey of American mayors – city executives believe our nation’s crumbling infrastructure is the most important …
- Nigeria: A failed state — reality or perception? 21 Jan 2020 16:37 globalvoicesonline.org Nigerian refugees in Gagamari camp, Diffa region, Niger. They crossed the border to flee Boko Haram insurgents who attacked their town, Damassak, on November 24, 2014. Photo from Flickr user European Commission DG ECHO. CC BY-ND 2.0 The 2019 Fragile States …
- 4 Financial Hurdles Self-Employed Professionals Face (And How To Tackle Them) 21 Jan 2020 16:29 Benzinga While self-employed individuals have the freedom to make their own schedules and don’t have long commutes, they face challenges organizing their finances that their full-time, W2 counterparts don’t. Regardless of what field of work you’re self-employed …
- Gangnam Style, the Ai Weiwei way 21 Jan 2020 15:38 The Guardian Ai Weiwei, the dissident Chinese artist, has officially hopped on the Gangnam Style bandwagon. On Wednesday Ai tweeted a cover version of South Korean rapper Psy's enormously popular music video, featuring the hefty 55-year-old artist – brow furrowed, …
- Key takeaways from McConnell's proposal for impeachment trial 21 Jan 2020 13:58 Calgary Herald (Bloomberg) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said publicly that he would use Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial from a generation ago as a model for proceedings to determine whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office. Yet, the …
- Davos 2020: Trump lavishes praise on US economy 21 Jan 2020 13:44 Al Jazeera The 50th World Economic Forum has kicked off in the Swiss city of Davos, with an agenda that is focused heavily on climate change, as world leaders struggle to tackle the crisis. The four-day annual gathering of some of the world's top political and …
- 697 people reacting 21 Jan 2020 13:29 Yahoo News WASHINGTON – The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump resumes Tuesday, with senators mapping out how to conduct the proceeding before hearing opening arguments from House Democrats who will prosecute the case and White House lawyers defending …
- Trump Prosecutors Make Move to Ensure that Embassy Protectors are Convicted 21 Jan 2020 12:39 Venezuela Analysis As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump Administration’s prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last May are asking the court to make sure the jury is kept ignorant about the facts and circumstances surrounding …
- Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol 21 Jan 2020 11:42 The Nation Illustration by Ross MacDonald. The US Border Patrol’s community outreach efforts can verge on the macabre. For instance, agents at the ajo station in Arizona, who patrol the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants, ran a Teddy Bear Patrol in 2004, …
- Real Versus Perceived Risk: Hersha Hospitality Trust 21 Jan 2020 11:12 Seeking Alpha Readers by now are familiar with my preferred method of investing: targeting higher-yielding, undervalued and out-of-favor stocks that primarily invest in real assets. The market is notoriously irrational and can give us hefty discounts on quality …
