After months of secret negotiations, a surprise joint announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping revealed the world’s two largest contributors to global warming have made a non-binding agreement to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years and stated their hope that such pledges will spur other nations…
China has overtaken the United State to become the world’s largest economy, according to new data and an analysis by the International Monetary Fund. Calculated by looking at gross domestic product (GDP) alongside cost-of-living data, the IMF announced Tuesday that China is now larger economically than the U.S. for the first time in history with…
The CDC today confirmed the first case of Ebola virus diagnosed in the United States. While it is not the first case of Ebola to reach US shores — American health care workers in West Africa have been transported to US hospitals — it is the first case of an individual receiving the diagnosis while…
Amid deep skepticism and fears of expanding war, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to authorize President Barack Obama’s plan to train and arm “moderate” rebels in Syria in opposition to the extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. House leaders inserted the approval into a broader…
The White House outlined on Tuesday its efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak. The United States is ramping up its efforts in West Africa with the deployment of 3000 US military forces with a regional command center being set up in Liberia. A US Army general will lead the efforts. The goal is to provide…
Increasing income inequality is hindering U.S. economic growth and weakening the country’s ability to recover from the Great Recession, according to a new analysis by the financial services agency Standard & Poor’s. The report released Tuesday incorporates data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the International…
The US economy added 209,000 new jobs in July, according to a new report from the Labor Department. Despite the jobs growth, the unemployment rate edged up 0.1 points to 6.2 percent. However, the unemployment rate has fallen 1.1 percentage points over the past twelve months. The Labor Department reports that 9.7 million people remain…
The US Supreme Court has made a sweeping judgment in favor of digital privacy rights. The unanimous ruling overturned a lower court ruling that allowed police officers to search the contents of a defendant’s cell phone without a warrant. The ruling means police will need to obtain a warrant before such a search could take…
