As America’s largest banks post record profits, massive companies continue their unprecedented stock buyback spree, and already-obscene CEO pay packages are set to rapidly expand in the aftermath of the Trump-GOP tax cuts, top corporate executives are now openly admitting that they have no plans whatsoever to invest their enormous windfall into wage increases for workers. During what Axios described as a […]
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. federal courts have issued temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump’s second try at using an executive order to limit who is allowed to enter the country. A judge in Hawaii blocked both the order’s suspension of refugee admissions and its ban on issuing new visas to people from a group of […]
Native American activists and environmentalists say they’ll fight President Donald Trump, who Tuesday signed executive orders which allow the construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access (DAPL) oil pipelines stalled by President Barack Obama in 2015. “These actions by President Trump are insane and extreme, and nothing short of attacks on our ancestral […]
A former U.S. business executive, who abruptly raised the price of a life-saving drug by more than 5,000 percent, refused to answer questions when he appeared before Congress on Thursday. Martin Shkreli’s appearance before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was a chance for lawmakers to sound off on the case, which drew […]
