WASHINGTON – Downtown hotels will be hard to come by when the Republican National Convention kicks off in Milwaukee in just over two months. But Wisconsin’s convention delegation have secured their rooms. The state’s delegation will stay at the Hampton Inn & Suites just half a mile from Fiserv Forum, the epicenter of the July […]
(Reuters) – A congressional investigation found that Wall Street used billions of dollars of American retirement savings and other investments to buy shares in index funds that included several blacklisted Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The probe, conducted by a bipartisan House committee empowered to devise strategies for the U.S. to […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made her first-ever contribution to the campaign arm of House Democrats — a $260,000 donation that is a milestone in the New York Democrat’s long and complicated relationship with her own party’s political establishment. In an interview, Ocasio-Cortez said her decision to give to the campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign […]
Sachin Saxena is a former ship captain who spent 13 years navigating the globe on large ships. He breaks down the process of entering and exiting ports in big vessels like the Dali. In emergencies like power failures, a ship can’t just stop and there’s a lot of pressure on board. This as-told-to essay is […]