Author: Alexander Casey

A hard-line Republican revolt could not prevent legislation to raise the US debt ceiling from clearing its first procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening. Here’s how the drama is playing out on Capitol Hill and a guide to what comes next. The two parties finally reached a deal after a showdown lasting months, then weeks of painstaking negotiations. Now the two leaders – Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy – must sell their weekend agreement to their members of Congress. They believe that even with some defections on the left…

The Los Angeles Kings acquired Joonas Korpisalo from the Columbus Blue Jackets at the trade deadline to bolster their goaltending depth. The 28-year-old Finn’s performance could earn him a longer stay in Los Angeles. Despite getting pulled in Game 5 of the Kings’ first-round series with the Edmonton Oilers, Korpisalo had a save percentage of .918 in the previous four games. He also put up solid numbers down the stretch, winning seven of 11 starts with a 2.13 goals-against average and a save percentage of .921. Korpisalo’s play was what the Kings once hoped to see from Cal Petersen when…

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) – Tiffany & Co. lifted the lid on its newly renovated New York city flagship on Wednesday, the centerpiece of a broad brand reset orchestrated by its owner, the world’s biggest luxury group LVMH. “Wonder Woman” film actress Gal Gadot presided over the early morning ribbon cutting ceremony, flanked by Tiffany CEO Anthony Ledru and Alexandre Arnault, executive vice president of product and communications for the label — one of LMVH chair and CEO Bernard Arnault’s five children who hold key positions in the French firm. The executives snipped the ribbon in the label’s trademark…

The Alaska Senate is preparing a state spending plan that includes a smaller Permanent Fund dividend and a diminished funding increase for public schools to balance Alaska’s annual operating budget without spending from savings or breaking a limit on spending from the Alaska Permanent Fund. When operating budget debates begin Wednesday in the Senate Finance Committee, the proposal under discussion will include a Permanent Fund dividend of about $1,300 and a $500 increase to the state’s per-student funding amount, the base student allocation, senators said during a news conference Tuesday. “We’re going to live within our revenue stream this year,…

The United States of America and Republic of Korea are honored to announce that Army Corporal Luther H. Story, of Buena Vista, Georgia, killed during the Korean War and missing for 73 years, has been accounted for.  In late August 1950, U.S. forces in Korea were primarily located along the Pusan Perimeter, a defensive formation around the towns of Pusan and Yeongsan, South Korea, along the eastern shore of the Naktong River.  On August 31, members of A and B Companies of the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division took the brunt of large-scale attack by the North Korean People’s Army. …

EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso officials today announced a $3 million federal grant to create the innovative Border Health Outreach Initiative at the university. The funds were included in the recent $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act that President Joe Biden signed into law on Dec. 30, 2022, and will be used to advance and improve health outcomes for underserved communities in our Borderplex region, including colonias, which are unincorporated, often low-income, zones along the U.S.-Mexico border. “I’m proud to support the Border Health Outreach Initiative, which will have…

The crisis gripping the health care system in the US is intensifying, with unprecedented numbers of hospital closures on the horizon and new mass layoffs among health care workers. As the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, and the mass infection policies of the Biden administration and governments around the world continue to ensure the pummeling of health systems, hospitals are also being flooded with children and adults suffering from respiratory illnesses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza. In the US alone, by official counts 1.14 million Americans have died from COVID-19, with 20,000 deaths occurring…

The 2021 Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security treaty seems to be shaping the global architecture in the post-People’s Republic of China (PRC) era. More details of its shape and direction will be revealed at a Washington summit of the three leaders in the second half of March. There are many aspects still to resolve among the three partner states, which already have an unprecedented amount of cooperation in defense, intelligence, and political arenas, to a far greater degree than even NATO. And, unlike NATO, AUKUS is a global alliance with presence and capabilities already in the North and South Atlantic,…

(Reuters) – The likelihood that the United States is already in recession or will fall into one this year has dropped over the past three months to 56% from a nearly two-thirds possibility, according to a survey on business conditions released on Monday. Approximately 53% of those polled by the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) said they had a more than-even expectation the United States would enter a recession over the next 12 months, while 3% indicated they thought the country was already in one. In the NABE’s previous poll released in October, 64% of respondents indicated that the…

A Denver police officer who fired at an armed man in a crowd and has been accused of accidentally shooting five bystanders has since been indicted on assault and other charges DENVER (AP) — A Denver police officer who fired at an armed man — and was accused of accidentally shooting five bystanders in the crowd outside a bar — has been indicted on assault and other charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. A grand jury indicted Officer Brandon Ramos on two counts of second-degree assault, both felonies; as well as six counts of third-degree assault, a prohibited use of a weapon…