Today, the Ministry of Finance of China announced new tariffs on $75 billion of United States’ goods. The tariffs will be implemented “on September 1, 2019,” for “10%” on over 1,000 items of US imports, and “on December 15, 2019” an additional 1,000 items of US imports will be hit…
Bernie Sanders Unveils “Green New Deal” Plan to Defeat Climate Change
August 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders has unveiled his “Green New Deal” plan “to defeat the existential threat of climate change.” Sanders’ Green New Deal is a ten-year plan with the goal of “reaching 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization by 2050.” The Presidential…
Trump Administration Seeks to Extend Migrant Child Detention and End “Catch and Release”
August 21, 2019
The Trump Administration has unveiled a new plan to extend migrant child detention, stating it “will now seek to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement”, putting an end to “catch and release.” The Flores Settlement Agreement was a settlement from a 1993 United States District Court Case which established “nationwide policy for…
United States Tests Cold War Era Missile
August 20, 2019
The Department of Defense (DOD) announced it has conducted a flight test of a Cold War era missile, specifically a “ground-launched cruise missile [which] accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight.” The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty had previously barred use of “ground-launched ballistic and cruise…