Global News
Eliminating Obamacare Subsidies Would Up Premiums by 20 Percent: CBO
In other insurance news , a Colorado group is asking state officials to restrain premium increases, and Reuters reports that some investors are turning cool on insurance stocks. "In the agencies' estimation, under the policy, about 5% of people live in areas that would have no insurers in the nongroup market in 2018", the budget office said. [Full Article...]
Democratic congressman arrested outside White House during rally for illegal immigrants
He noted others he saw being arrested at the sidewalk outside the White House: former NAACP President Ben Jealous and Gustavo Torres, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group CASA. In June , the Department of Homeland Security said it would not be making any changes to DACA, explicitly stating that no changes would be made to eligibility requirements and no work permits would be term... [Full Article...]
USA forces 'ready' to protect Guam against North Korea: White House
United States secretary of state Rex Tillerson says any dialogue is all up to Kim. "The hardliners in Washington reinforce the hardliners in Pyongyang , who in turn reinforce the hardliners in Washington". "The U.S. President at [golf] links again let out a load of nonsense about 'fire and fury, ' failing to grasp the ongoing grave situation", a commander of the North Korean army said, as rep... [Full Article...]
Is United States Steel Corporation (X) a Buy? The Stock Rises Again
Kellogg Company (K ) stock moved with shift of -0.36% in the past week. United States Steel Corporation had a net margin of 0.24% and a return on equity of 6.50%. Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc. increased its stake in United States Steel Corporation by 36.4% in the first quarter. If you are accessing this piece on another site, it was illegally copied and republished in violation of US an... [Full Article...]
Guam: Kim Jong Un waiting for next U.S. move, state media reports
Though the North Korean leader decided not to immediately launch weapons, he persisted in his use of strong rhetoric saying , "If the Yankees persist in their extremely risky reckless actions on the Korean peninsula", North Korea's military "will wring the windpipes. [Full Article...]
Trump ramps up Guam assurances over N Korea threat
The comments by Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford in meetings Monday with senior South Korean military and political officials appeared to be an attempt to ease anxiety over tit-for-tat threats between President Donald Trump and North Korea while also showing a willingness to back up Trump's warnings if necessary. [Full Article...]
He was seen marching in Charlottesville with white supremacists. Now he's fired
/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7VDWFREB3VA2HBKDQO6S3F6F4I.jpg)
Peter Cvjetanovic , 20, was also identified in a photo from the white-nationalist march at the University of Virginia on Friday night and later defended himself in an interview with a Las Vegas TV station. The account, called Yes, You're Racist , was created in 2012 by Logan Smith, according to CBS News . "They are slandering me and that I'm racist without evidence because I talk about h... [Full Article...]
HMS Queen Elizabeth Has Already Been Spotted Off The Isle Of Wight
He told cops but said they were not interested. The photographer claims that the landing was unintentional - he was forced to touch down on the ship due to a high wind alert - but the ease with which he was able to land on the warship raises very important concerns. [Full Article...]
Iran claims it could restart its nuclear program 'within hours'
But the US says Iran's missile tests violated a United Nations resolution. Two weeks after Donald Trump's inauguration as president in January, the White House said it was putting Iran "on notice" for its ballistic missile tests. Iran agreed to limit its nuclear ability in exchange for lifting global oil and financial sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic. It stopped short of explicitly ba... [Full Article...]
Housing group Mears says Grenfell disaster to hit profits
They will examine the cause and spread of the fire, the design, construction and refurbishment of the tower, fire regulations relating to high-rise buildings, whether they were complied with at Grenfell Tower, and the actions of the authorities before and after the tragedy. [Full Article...]
Deutsche Bank AG (DB) Rating Reduced to "Hold" at BidaskClub
HSBC Holdings plc set a €13.00 ($15.29) target price on Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a research note on Friday, August 4th. 8,678,632 shares of the company's stock were exchanged. At the end of Jun reporting period, 120 institutional holders increased their position in Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (NYSE:DB) by some 107,738,116 shares, 100 decreased ... [Full Article...]
Woman survived a month lost in Alabama woods eating berries, mushrooms
She was found without shoes, covered in scratches, mud and bug bites after being spotted by a driver in Midland, Alabama on Saturday. Come Monday, Theris was back in her Louisville home where her siblings said she has begun her slow road to recovery. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom parliament's 'Big Ben' bell to fall silent for four years
The London icon is going to be much quieter than usual. A spokesman for the parliamentary authorities said: 'The Elizabeth Tower, home to the Great Clock and Big Ben , is now undergoing a complex programme of conservation works necessary to safeguard it for future generations. [Full Article...]
Confederate group requests to hold rally at Lee statue in Richmond
According to The Virginia Flaggers blog , organizers from the group Save Southern Heritage are also working to obtain a permit for a rally. This comes a day after a protest about the removal of another Confederate monument in Charlottesville turned violent. [Full Article...]
Tillerson: US Urges Saudi Arabia to Embrace Greater Degree of Religious Freedom
The report listed threats to religious freedom in 199 countries, but the United States was not on the list. Kozak told the press that the us has a "good record" in fighting against genocide, stating that the U.S.is in the process of "defeating the perpetrators of genocide pretty soundly" in Iraq and elsewhere, as he discussed the legal and moral obligations of countries working to combat gen... [Full Article...]
North Korea nuke conflict renews push to change Guam govn't
He then added that if the North fires on the US, "it could escalate into war". South Korean citizens and the media have been less shy about ripping into both Trump, for his threat, and the government of President Moon Jae-in, for not taking the US president to task for evoking a potential war that would likely result in tens of thousands of Korean deaths. [Full Article...]
Frank Pallone Calls on Trump to Fire Bannon, Gorka, Miller
/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VHFTO3I2H5BRPAZP6KOPB4KAHQ.jpg)
United States lawmakers have called on President Donald Trump to dismiss some of his top aides in order not to embolden white supremacy in the country in the wake of the death of a counter protester by a young Nazi sympathizer in Charlottesville, Virginia. [Full Article...]
Cleveland Cavaliers 2017-18 Schedule Preview
The presumed top two teams in the Eastern Conference face-off to open the season. Last season it was the month of March that everyone circled as a hard road when the schedule first came out. Due to the Kyrie Irving news that broke late last month that he wants out of Cleveland , there could be a couple more games on the schedule that fans will be looking forward to. [Full Article...]
Mattis: US would 'take out' any NKorean missile aimed at US
Trump's bluster, however, stands in stark contrast to an ongoing back channel for negotiations between the United States and North Korea, which came to light Friday. On the contrary, the North's real objective has always been to ensure the survival of the Kim regime and, in the longer term, to secure the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under that regime's leadership. [Full Article...]
France's Macron warns against 'escalation of tensions' over North Korea
The White House said in a statement that the Trump and Xi "agreed North Korea must stop provocative and escalatory behavior" and that both are committed to Korean denuclearization. A commentary in the North Korean state-run newspaper Minju Joson called the warnings from Trump and "other riffraff of the U.S. the last-ditch efforts and hysteric fit of those who are in the grip of despair" over t... [Full Article...]