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Fentanyl smuggled from China is killing thousands of Americans

Military could be used in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, says minister: A defence minister tells Sky News that talks are being held behind the scenes about "what support our armed forces will do".

The Trump Tax Scam, Phase II: Deficits are up? Cut Medicare and Social Security!

McConnell: Republicans Can’t Fix Entitlements

Mitch McConnell Admits That the GOP Doesn’t Actually Want to Fix the Deficit While It’s in Charge

What will help you get into Harvard? Super-rich parents with a chequebook and pen

Republican Doublespeak on Health Care Starts at the Top: From Donald Trump on down, a disconnect with reality gives the GOP a reason to be nervous come Election Day.

Democrats Can Claim Victory on Health Care: Shifts in the debate over Obamacare, including increased coverage for lower-income Americans, are likely to be enduring.

Donald Trump Defends Medicare, a Socialist Program, from the Threat of Socialism: In a new op-ed attacking single-payer, Trump inadvertently reveals that he's in favor of socialism—as long as it's for his supporters.

7 Myths of Social Security

Acute Flaccid Myelitis

Exports Keep China’s Economy Warm, but Winter Is Coming: As China’s overall growth rate slows, exports have been a driver—so far

China’s financial crisis team goes into overdrive with 10th meeting in two months

China's Weakest Economic Growth Since the Financial Crisis Shows Trump's Trade War is Setting in

For Years, the World Was Eliminating Extreme Poverty. Here's Why the Progress Is Stalling

Maxine Waters says easing banking regulations ‘will come to an end’ when she takes committee chair

Why the Cabinet must reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal

Red States Could be Coming Around on Obamacare

KNOW YOUR WORLD: FACTS ABOUT HUNGER AND POVERTY

Big Jump in Americans Saying Renting Is Cheaper Than Owning: Freddie Mac data shows 78% of people now say that renting is more affordable than owning

Housing Market Slows, as Rising Prices Outpace Wages

Housing Market Is Raising Serious Red Flags: Real home price growth looks to have already entered a cyclical downturn that is likely to intensify as affordability worsens.

Shiller on U.S. housing market: 'It reminds me of 2006'

Briggs: The housing market is getting worse for everyone

Little Caesars Posts Sign on Door After Catching Homeless Man Going Through Trash

Ford Prepares for Mass Layoffs After Losing $1 Billion to Trump's Trade Tariffs, Report Says

The Men Who Want to Push Britain Off a Cliff: Theresa May has a Brexit deal. Now a group of feckless Conservatives wants to torpedo everything.

US government to go ahead with fatal experiments on dogs: Controversial tests to proceed despite opposition from congress and others

New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit

Ministers in denial over ‘social calamity’ of UK poverty, UN figure says

UK austerity program inflicted ‘great misery’ on Britons: UN

California fires: Could nearly 1,000 people really have died in the blaze? Staggering number of missing haunts Paradise

12,000 people have been kicked off Medicaid in Arkansas

Fear and flatlining: The stock market's brutal 2018

Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar

There are plenty of reasons to be thankful

Millennials are the misfits of modern capitalism. Here’s why it’s not their fault

Answering Your Questions about the IPI Drug Pricing Model, October 30, 2018, By: Dan Best, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Drug Pricing Reform

Senior Trump administration drug pricing official, Dan Best, dies

Trump’s Drug Pricing Czar Found With ‘Multiple Blunt Force Injuries,’ Ruled Suicide

How Trump’s trade wars are affecting American farmers

Black Friday Isn’t the Only Time Workers Face Unfair Schedules

Crowdfunding Is a Symptom Of America’s Sick Health Care System

42 Million Americans Experience Hunger Each Year. I’m One of Them.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America.

Betsy DeVos Is Working Hard to Make Student Loan Forgiveness an Impossibility

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plain Black Jacket Became a Controversy: The backlash against the incoming congresswoman’s “very nice” outfit is both tedious and predictable.

The 2018 Made in America Holiday Gift Guide

Why Does Black Friday Exist?

Why School Counselors Matter

Trump's stimulus may have bought a few votes, but it leaves a fiscal and economic time-bomb for his successors

I’m calling a UK recession if this Brexit bedlam isn’t sorted out soon

From economic slowdown to political chaos, the global outlook gives us plenty to worry about

We must hold capitalism accountable. Elizabeth Warren shows how

The New History of American Capitalism

Anti-vaccine community behind North Carolina chickenpox outbreak

Low Incomes Tied to High Weight for Women, Not for Men

Brain implants let paralyzed people use tablets to send texts and stream music: Devices that monitor neural activity may help immobilized people resume their digital lives

Don’t spank your kids. Do time-outs and positive talk instead, pediatricians say

Gut bacteria may guard against diabetes that comes with aging: Old mice lose one type of friendly microbe, triggering a hallmark of the disease

Theresa May: I’m not a ‘queue jumper’, I’m a hard-working European who loves Britain – and you’re causing me misery.  Theresa May has caused anger by saying her Brexit plan will stop EU migrants 'jumping the queue'

"When I Got A Job At The Car Wash, There Was No Queue To Jump"

Brexit: May gives way over Gibraltar after Spain's 'veto' threat.  Spanish prime minister had demanded written assurance as price of support for withdrawal agreement

Get ready for Brexit advent, where a new political hellscape opens every day: If we don’t get a war with Spain to unite us, I’m excited for an economic war with 27 countries

May’s Brexit disaster unreported by UK press: Britain BLOCKED from $1.7 Trillion in WTO projects

San Francisco’s big business tax to fight homelessness is a warning for tech

San Francisco Sets a New Tech Trend: Tax the Companies | WIRED

The global hunt to tax Big Tech: The UK’s proposal for a digital levy is the latest effort by European governments to force technology companies to pay more

San Francisco Just Passed the Largest Tax Increase in City History. It's Anybody's Guess if It's Legal: Prop C hikes business taxes by $300 million to pay for homeless services.

Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity Are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating

China is buying good press across the world, one paid journalist at a time

Countering the geography of discontent: Strategies for left-behind places

Artificial intelligence predicts Alzheimer's years before diagnosis

For International Students, Shifting Choices of Where to Study: With international student enrollments falling or stagnating at the top two study destinations -- the U.S. and U.K. -- what does the picture look like around the world?

Saudi Arabia is reducing oil supply and OPEC may cut too

In Battle for Workers, Walmart Promises Steadier Schedules: Retailer’s new system offers set shifts for 13 weeks in an attempt to address employee complaints about changing schedules

The gender pay gap starts earlier than you think: Here's what you can do about it.

These careers have the biggest gender pay gaps, and here’s what you can do about it

Even Among Entrepreneurs, There’s a Gender Pay Gap: When women set their own salaries, it’s often less than what men pay themselves

America’s growing student-loan-debt crisis

It’s time to start worrying about graduate-student debt

American women’s $1 trillion burden

Washington Gridlock? Maybe Not on These Personal Finance Issues: From credit reports to family leave, there are a few areas in which Democrats and Republicans share common ground. And bipartisan cooperation could be good for your wallet.

Arkansas voters approve to increase minimum wage

State's minimum wage hike could be more noticeable in Texarkana: On Jan. 1, $2 an hour will separate entry-level workers in Texas and Arkansas

Google Confronts Its Bolsheviks: Political activists inside the company take aim at the white males at the top.

Evelyn Y Davis: shareholder activist who held America’s CEOs to account.  Dismissed by opponents as cruel and self-aggrandising, the self-styled queen of the corporate jungle fought steadfastly for accountability and transparency in the boardroom

Evelyn Y. Davis, activist shareholder and 'queen of the corporate ...

Evelyn Davis, Queen of Shareholder Activism, Dies at 89

Looking Busy: The rise of pointless work.

The tax windfall that wasn't: A troubling new IRS report suggests many Americans may be giving money right back to the government

G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow

The founder of Panera Bread explains the economic forces that led to Trump

Falsehoods, Failures, Fibs & Fabrications

6mer seed toxicity in tumor suppressive microRNAs

Cameron's arrogance hurt the country, but May's insults cut deep

Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the third in a row to show a decline in life expectancy.

2017 was the worst year ever for drug overdose deaths in America: Nearly 200 people a day died of drug overdoses in 2017, based on preliminary federal data.

Suicide

Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy: America cannot afford to ignore China’s semiconductor ambitions. It cannot simply tame them, either

GM Cutting Workforce, Closing Factories After Getting $514 Million Windfall from GOP Tax Law

GM bought back $10 billion in stock since 2015, double what job cuts will save

Silence in the face of their tears: GM chief Mary Barra's has posted nothing on Twitter for a month after frequently gushing about the 'open and inclusive' company where she rose through the ranks to become its first female CEO and earn $22million a year

GM to lay off 15,000 workers

Bernie Sanders Blasts GM For Taking Trump Tax Breaks, Then Screwing Workers

Donald Trump threatens to kill GM’s electric car subsidies over factory closures

10 Investigates: GM has received more than $60 million in tax credits from Ohio over the past decade

Ohio tried to stop General Motors from leaving Lordstown. It didn't work.

GM Lordstown plant a Valley fixture since 1966

Louisiana Health Secretary: Jeff Sadow wrong — again — on Medicaid facts

Russians in a Panic Over New Currency: The U.S. $100 Bill

TO GET BACK AT G.M., TRUMP THREATENS TO PUNISH ANY AMERICAN WHO BUYS AN ELECTRIC CAR
The president is in a MOOD.

Paul Ryan says one of his biggest regrets is the ballooning federal deficit. The evidence shows he has himself to blame.

Mike Harding Reads His Viral Letter To Theresa May

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid 'Disturbing' Rise In Overdoses And Suicides

The Hidden History & Truth Of White Slavery In The North America!

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