The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to limit the number of ride-sharing services, including Uber and Lyft. After intense campaigning from taxi drivers in the city, council members agreed in a 39-6 vote to pass multiple bills that will halt the business of these ride-sharing apps. “The council voted to halt the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses ...

Venezuela has collapsed, it does not exist in its previous form. And just when you think matters couldn’t get worse in the socialist country, they do. This is what collapse looks like. The dire state in Venezuela has morphed into not only an economic but also a political and humanitarian crisis. The living conditions in the country have gradually become ...

In a recent interview with CNBC, President Donald Trump made it clear that he is ready to imposed tariffs on all of the $505.5 billion in goods from China that were imported last year. “I’m ready to go to 500. I’m not doing this for politics. I’m doing this to do the right thing for our country,” said Trump on Friday to CNBC. ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for their highly anticipated conference in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to the meeting, Trump tweeted that the relations between U.S. and Russia have never been worse, but implied that that was about to change. “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and ...

On Monday, a $716 million defense bill passed in Senate with an 85-10 vote from lawmakers. The fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 5515 (115) increases the budget so the military can acquire more warships, fighter jets, and troops. It also includes a large 2.6 percent pay raise for troops. “The wide-ranging legislation includes roughly $716 billion in spending, ...

Last year, the Trump administration withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but is now signaling officials to explore rejoining if only a “substantially better” deal is negotiated.    “Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama. We already have BILATERAL deals with six of the eleven nations in TPP, and are working to ...

Cuba will name a new president within the next two weeks, meaning the country will no longer have a Castro as its leader for the first time in 60 long years. Miguel Diaz-Canel, the country’s current vice president is expected to be Raul Castro’s successor. However, his ascension to the presidency is not guaranteed. Back in January, a bronze replica of ...

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress regarding the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal on Tuesday. It appears as though the social network’s founder is feeling the pressure from the public and lawmakers because last month, Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook’s leading engineers and lawyers would be more appropriate to answer Congress’s questions. “If it is ever ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that authorizes the U.S. Trade Representative to determine what type of tariffs should be placed on China to handle the country’s unfair trade practices. The memorandum says that the U.S. Treasury Department should consider restrictions on the communist country “to address concerns about investment in the United States directed or facilitated by China ...

A paper being presented this week at the Brookings Institution outlines the substantial long-term benefits of the investment in early childhood to our society. However, federal spending is still being spent significantly more on the elderly than children. In 2015, the federal government spent about $35,000 per elderly person though Medicare and social security programs versus the $5,000 on children ...