Today’s comic by Matt Bors is And now a world from Donald Trump… • 7,000 cities already ahead on reducing greenhouse gas emissions: The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement demanded that by 2020 cities reduce their emissions by 20{b3df30ef46327c92536c9d4cc87cf2f525bd3d5ea719227c874c7a308e531779} compared to 1990 levels. But the Covenant of Mayors, a project headed jointly by the European …
New York TimesTrying to Unite Factions, Democrats in Congress Begin Picking LeadersNew York TimesAfter winning the position of Senate minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York slipped into his hideaway office at the Capitol on Wednesday to share the news with his parents and daughter. … WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats …
Donald Trump denied charges Wednesday that his White House transition was in disarray amid reports of a backstabbing purge of mainstream Republican aspirants, as his team said new administration appointments were expected soon. The president-elect remained ensconced in his luxurious Trump Tower headquarters in Manhattan, taking phone calls from …
Council on Foreign RelationsThe Trans-Pacific Partnership and US Trade PolicyCouncil on Foreign RelationsThe post–World War II era has seen the dramatic growth of international trade and the creation of a global trading framework based on the principle of open economies. The United States has been at the forefront of …
The bank will pay roughly $200 million combined to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department and more than $50 million to the Federal Reserve, the source said. The SEC opened an investigation into JPMorgan in 2013 over the hiring. The Justice Department opened a parallel investigation around the …