WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday rejected President Obama’s proposal to let tax rates rise for the highest-income Americans, as Republicans held firm in their push to continue all of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts.
The White House and Congressional leaders are now discussing a deal to extend the reduced tax rates at all income levels, at...
London, Dec 4: An Israeli entrepreneur who was left paralysed after a car crash, has now invented 'robotic trousers' that he claims would help paraplegics walk again.
Amit Goffer was paralysed in a car crash in 1997 and immediately set out to invent a device - 'ReWalk': robotic trousers that use sensors and motors to allow paralysed patients to...
If you are drunk, it is certainly a wiser choice to take the train then attempt to drive. But if you are drunk, that train station can still be a very dangerous place. Case in point, the Puerta del Angel station in Madrid, Spain. A 41-year-old man tumbled onto the tracks in a motionless pile. Other passengers wave their arms to get attention:...
America Doesn’t Want Republicans to Hold National Security Hostage
Mitch McConnell and his Republican brethren sent a letter to Senate Democrats a few days ago announcing that no laws would be passed until the Democrats give them tax cuts for the rich. They claimed that this pledge didn’t include the START treaty, and then like clockwork, they...
Washington (CNN) -- Two Senate procedural votes on Democratic measures to extend George W. Bush-era tax cuts for people who are not super wealthy failed on Saturday, preventing the measures from moving forward.
The votes sought to extend the Bush tax cuts for families making under $250,000 and $1 million, respectively.
Both votes garnered the...
