Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday approved Judy Shelton‘s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board in a party-line vote, delivering a win for President Donald Trump and his efforts to install a political confidante in a key economic policy-making role. Shelton, a conservative economist who has argued the nation […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] UPDATE: The suspect in the shooting of the son and husband of a federal judge in New Jersey was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Monday, ABC News and other media reported, citing law enforcement sources. The suspect, a white male, had a case before the […]
FISM News, Reuters Special Report [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] China launched its military build-up in the mid-1990s with a top priority: keep the United States at bay in any conflict by making the waters off the Chinese coast a death trap. Now, China‘s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing to challenge American power further afield. China‘s shipyards […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The erosion of Hong Kong‘s “specialness” and its rapidly aging population could see its trend growth more than halve over the next decade and even plunge to zero in a “plausible” downside scenario, rating agency S&P Global estimated on Monday. Hong Kong‘s long-term economic prospects faced risks from the […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] In his first rally for his last-minute presidential campaign, rapper Kanye West ranted against abortion and pornography, argued policy with attendees, and at one point, broke down in tears. West, 43, a former supporter of President Donald Trump who has left voters befuddled over whether his campaign is genuine […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] In the eastern Afghan city of Herat, an all-female Afghan Robotics Team, which has won international awards for its robots, started work in March on an open-source, low-cost ventilator as the coronavirus pandemic hit the war-torn nation. It took the team almost four months to finalize the ventilator, which is […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump on Monday said he plans to send law enforcement personnel to some major U.S. cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests including the use of unmarked cars and unidentified officers in camouflage in Portland, Oregon, angers people across the country. “We’re sending law enforcement,” Trump […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The National Defense Authorization Act, which sets policy for the U.S. Defense Department, is one of the only major bills to reliably pass Congress and be signed into law every year. As lawmakers consider the $740 billion NDAA proposal for 2021, they are bracing for the possibility that President […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID–19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. A King’s College London team found that the six types also correlated with levels of severity of infection, and with the likelihood […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. homebuilding increased by the most in nearly four years in June amid reports of rising demand for housing in suburbs and rural areas as companies allow employees flexibility to work from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Housing starts increased 17.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of […]
