From the Individual income tax-free states such as Florida, Texas, Washington, Tennessee, and Nevada, to the sales tax-free Alaska, Vermont and Oregon, and everyone inbetween: this is how America's states fund themselves.
"This kind of has the potential to diminish the authority of [Merkel] and Horst Seehofer and it could well be that at the end of next week we have a new situation. Probably a new Chancellor."
The US govt has released some memorable images revealing the inside of a mysterious new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) immigration detention center for migrant children.
A fight between Angela Merkel and and her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is threatening to collapse the German government less than three months after it was formed. Not for the first time, the two can’t agree on how to treat asylum seekers at the border...
"I'm sure that people are gonna be less likely to bring their kids to America if they get separated, than if they live together and get released into the country."
Why are some gays arming themselves? Do gun owners discriminate against gays? And why are political parties trash? These and other topics in this Jeff Bloovman interview.
Preliminary Junes survey data from University of Michigan shows a rebound in headline confidence among Americans as current conditions rise but 'hope' - future expectations - slides to its lowest since January.
There were so many of these babies after the 1980 Olympics that biracial Russians used to be referred to as "children of the Olympics" or "festival children"
"Empires have to resort to bullying near the end because they are fundamentally weak...It’s important for bullies to always win. Because once their weakness is exposed they can no longer be bullies."
Food Stamp usage in America has fallen 7.8% since President Trump's election - the fastest such drop in Americans' dependence on the state for sustenance ever
Italy has postponed high-level discussions with France after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Rome for refusing to take in a migrant rescue ship full of 629 shipwrecked North Africans...
“The village tried to disguise its extremism as an amendment to an existing ordinance. The ordinance bans possession of legally-owned semi-auto firearms, with no exception for guns previously owned, or any provision for self-defense.”
