The State Department is concerned organizations performing supply-chain audits in China are coming under pressure from Chinese authorities. U.S. law prohibits importing products made through forced labor, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to verify whether products from China are tainted. ...
The advancement on the child tax credit payments are set to start next month. The child tax credit payments, which were set up and expanded under the American Rescue Plan passed earlier this year, amount to $3,000 annually per child ...
If your business falls victim to ransomware and you want simple advice on whether to pay the criminals, don’t expect much help from the U.S. government. The answer is most often some form of “it depends.” “It is the position ...
President Biden’s to-do list now that he’s back from Europe is full of daunting tasks. His tour in Europe was meant to usher in a new era of American diplomacy. “I think we — the country, has put a different ...
For the first time in the last 6 weeks, there was an increase in the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits. Layoffs are still decreasing overall, though as the economy continues with reopening. The workforce seems to ...
The House Thursday voted to repeal the 2002 authorization for use of military force in Iraq and will send the legislation to the Senate, which is expected to take up the issue in the coming weeks. The vote was 268-161 ...
President Biden just signed into law our 12th federal holiday, Juneteenth, or June 19, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. While the holiday has been celebrated unofficially for more than two years, Congress passed legislation yesterday ...
Biden and Putin agreed in their pointedly separate press conferences that their first face-to-face meeting was “constructive.” Each leader agreed to return their nations’ ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow. They also made plans to rework the last ...
On this day in 1884, America’s first roller coaster opened in the famed Coney Island Amusement Park in Brooklyn, New York. The roller coaster was considered a switchback railway and it traveled at six miles per hour. Admission for the ...
Unlike his predecessors, Biden’s relationship with Russian President Putin is pointedly rocky. We were all there for the incident where Biden plainly characterized Putin as “a killer,” and just recently he recounted a time that he told Putin, to his ...