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Trump-Pence Proxy Fight in Georgia Raises Questions About GOP’s Future

By Rob Garver | VOA on May 25, 2022   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Trump-Pence Proxy Fight in Georgia Raises Questions About GOP’s Future

On its face, Tuesday’s primary election for the Republican party’s gubernatorial nominee in the U.S. state of Georgia was nothing remarkable. Brian Kemp, the sitting governor, faced off against former U.S. Senator David Perdue and comfortably won his party’s nod to pursue another term in office by 73% to 22%. Normally, two veteran politicians slugging […]

CDC Report: US Gun Homicides Spiked 35% From 2019 to 2020

By Rob Garver | VOA on May 12, 2022   Featured, National, National/World  

CDC Report: US Gun Homicides Spiked 35% From 2019 to 2020

The U.S. firearm homicide rate spiked 35% in 2020, the first full year of the coronavirus pandemic, rising to the highest level in almost three decades of record-keeping, according to data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency reported 19,350 firearm homicides in the U.S. in 2020, compared with […]

Facebook Share Price Plummets, Leading Broad Rout of US Tech Stocks

By Rob Garver | VOA on Feb 4, 2022   Featured, National, National/World  

Facebook Share Price Plummets, Leading Broad Rout of US Tech Stocks

WASHINGTON — The same technology companies that helped drag the U.S. stock market back from the depths of the pandemic recession in 2021 led the market into a sharp plunge on Thursday after Meta Platforms, the company that owns Facebook, revealed that user growth on its marquee product has hit a plateau, and revenue from advertising […]

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Roll Back Abortion Rights in US

By Rob Garver | VOA on Dec 2, 2021   Featured, Health, National, National/World  

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Roll Back Abortion Rights in US

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in what will likely become a landmark abortion rights case. The court’s conservative justices, who have a 6-3 majority, gave hints that they are considering weakening or even overturning a 48-year-old decision that held that women have a constitutional right to abort a pregnancy. In the […]

Uncertainty Grips Washington in Face of Another Possible Shutdown

By Rob Garver | VOA on Sep 29, 2021   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Uncertainty Grips Washington in Face of Another Possible Shutdown

WASHINGTON — If Congress fails to act, the U.S. government’s authority to continue spending money will expire at midnight on Thursday, forcing more than 1 million federal workers and an untold number of contractors to stop working. Thousands more will be expected to continue working without clarity about precisely when they will be paid. “The stakes […]

Disagreement Over Debts, Spending Plunge Washington Into Crisis Mode

By Rob Garver | VOA on Sep 23, 2021   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Disagreement Over Debts, Spending Plunge Washington Into Crisis Mode

The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are facing what may be the most politically fraught moment since they took unified control of Washington in January. Lawmakers are battling to avoid a potential government shutdown and a default on the national debt at the same time that Democratic infighting is endangering two pieces of legislation meant […]

IRS Data Leak Reveals How Little America’s Wealthiest Pay in Taxes

By Rob Garver | VOA on Jun 11, 2021   Featured, National, National/World  

IRS Data Leak Reveals How Little America’s Wealthiest Pay in Taxes

An unprecedented leak of the personal federal tax data of thousands of Americans has turbocharged a debate over wealth inequality in the United States and has tax reform advocates hopeful that a deeper public understanding of how the wealthy avoid taxes will lead to a restructuring of the U.S. tax code. The data, leaked to […]

Wealthy Americans Hold Back $600 Billion in Taxes Annually, Treasury Says

By Rob Garver | VOA on May 23, 2021   Featured, National, National/World  

Wealthy Americans Hold Back $600 Billion in Taxes Annually, Treasury Says

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration says wealthy Americans withhold more than $600 billion in unpaid taxes from the Treasury every year, and it has proposed a detailed plan to bulk up the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement arm in an effort to increase tax compliance among high net worth individuals. Total unpaid taxes “will rise to […]

‘Third Party’ Threat to the Status Quo of US Politics Faces Long Odds

By Rob Garver | VOA on May 18, 2021   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

‘Third Party’ Threat to the Status Quo of US Politics Faces Long Odds

Rancor within the Republican Party peaked last week between members who remain loyal to former President Donald Trump and those who want the party to repudiate him and his continued false claims of election fraud.  First, there was the dramatic expulsion of Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership post in the House of Representatives after she voted to impeach Trump and denounced his claims the 2020 election had been “stolen” […]

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