President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. … Read more
The United States will work with partners and stakeholders in Syria to help seize an opportunity and manage the risk, US President Joe Biden said on Sunday after rebel fighters overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He cited Assad’s failure as a combined failure for Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia. In remarks at the White House, … Read more
The Dutch chipmaker and its Taiwanese partner Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (VIS) on Wednesday broke ground on a joint chip plant in Singapore’s east region. The partners are already working on a phase-two expansion, NXP executive vice-president Andy Micallef told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of the ceremony, though he said that addition has yet … Read more
The four bodies – the Internet Society of China, the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Semiconductor Industry Association and the China Association of Communication Enterprises – on Tuesday issued statements within minutes of each other, urging their members to be “cautious” about buying chips from American suppliers, following the Biden administration’s fresh sanctions. … Read more
President Joe Biden made student loan forgiveness a central issue to his administration, rolling out efforts to forgive debt as well as to lower repayments for millions of borrowers. But with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House in January, the future of those efforts is now in question. During the presidential debate with … Read more
U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker found the program, which offers a path to citizenship to around 500,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally if they are married to U.S. citizens, exceeded Biden’s executive authority. The initiative, known as Keeping Families Together, launched in August but was blocked days later by Barker, who left it … Read more
A mere 30 per cent of the American public believe trade with China has created “some or a lot of jobs” in their state, a new study revealed in the lead-up to the US election. The East-West Centre, a Washington-based research organisation, found in a survey that a slight majority of the American public – … Read more
White House notified before Israel’s attack on Iran, defense official says – CBS News Watch CBS News A defense official told CBS News that the U.S. was given a heads-up in advance of Israel’s retaliatory attack against Iran. The U.S. is not involved in the strikes, but President Biden has been briefed on the situation. … Read more
A much-needed agreement between the federal government and the Bay State to replace the Sagamore Bridge has been reached, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps owns both the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, a pair of aging spans that cross the Cape Cod Canal, and has determined that the bridges will need … Read more
WASHINGTON — The IRS is expanding its program that allows people to file their taxes directly with the agency for free. The federal tax collector’s Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the government directly without using commercial tax preparation software, will be open to more than 30 million … Read more
