Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Many National Associations and other big businesses sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stating that they will not be participating in President Trump’s tax deferral plan. Trump’s executive order which laid out the deferral was signed on August […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] An independent research organization called Humanitarian Outcomes announced this week that aid workers suffered a record 277 major attacks around the world last year, noting that healthcare workers responding to crises facing a spike in deadly violence. A total of 483 aid workers were killed, kidnapped, or wounded in […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A federal appeals court on Friday overturned Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. President Donald Trump said Sunday that the federal government should seek the death penalty again. In a tweet, […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Israel and the United Arab Emirates’ both announced later last week that they would form formal ties under a U.S.-sponsored deal. The implementation of the peace deal could recast Middle East politics extending from the Palestinian issue to dealing with Iran, the common foe of Israel, and Gulf Arabs. […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] China’s Shenzhen city announced it is requiring additional tests on frozen meat and seafood, after finding the coronavirus on chicken wings from Brazil last week. The city government released a noticed on Monday, saying it had set up a central warehouse where all imported foods already cleared through customs […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Top U.S. Officials Confirm that the United States will extend to a ban on non-essential travel at land borders with Canada and Mexico for another 30 days as several states battle coronavirus outbreaks. The month-long ban does not cover trade or travel by air. The ban was first introduced […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska‘s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the pristine wilderness area before a potential change in U.S. leadership. The 19 million-acre refuge is home to wildlife populations including […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] After a hurricane-force storm hit last week, causing widespread damage in towns and farms and leaving thousands without power, U.S. President Donald Trump approved federal disaster aid for the state. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said on Sunday she requested about $4 billion in emergency funds following the storm called Derecho […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Trump-appointed U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify before a U.S. House panel investigating whether service changes adopted in recent weeks have slowed mail deliveries. The committee also aims to determine whether or not cuts in service hamper the Postal Service’s ability to handle a flood of mail-in […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being short-circuited by the coronavirus pandemic – much like much of the world as we now know it. Here is a look at how the Democratic and Republican conventions will […]
