The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program. But more than a third of children don’t receive it because their parents earn too little. Christina McKeigan, a divorced mother of three, earned $23,000 last year and was eligible for about half the maximum credit.Credit...Andrea Morales for The…
As the 2018 California fires continue to sweep the state, especially near Northern California National Parks, the cost of these deadly wildfires only keeps growing. Pictures of California’s fires barely hint at the damage. The Carr Fire is already one of the most destructive fires in Golden State history, and has claimed the lives of…
Forty-nine people were killed in shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, in a terrorist attack that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.” • Officials said that one man in his late 20s had been charged with murder, and that two explosive devices were…
Enlarge / EnChroma glasses have always had both skeptics and true believers. Who's right? It's complicated. The much-touted EnChroma glasses don't help colorblind users see new colors; they merely let the colorblind see the same colors in a different way, according to a new study published in Optics Express by scientists at Spain's University of Granada.…
The gunmen lingered at the scene even as emergency workers arrived to treat the injured, and opened fire on several ambulances, Ahmed el-Ansari, a senior government health official, said on state television. Many of the wounded were rushed to the general hospital in the main town in Sinai, El Arish, where medics described chaotic scenes…
Donald Trump’s got the stock market on a string, but investors are less sure of the game he’s playing.The Republican president’s renewed ramblings on trade dominated U.S. equity markets this week, with a tweet-induced swoon on Friday leaving the S&P 500 Index 1.4 percent lower than where it started on Monday. The gauge swung wildly,…
Internal documents given to Tesla employees a few weeks before the company's October earnings release reveal the company had plans to manufacture its next car, the Model Y SUV, at a rapid speed. According to the document, Tesla planned a production ramp of 7,000 Model SUVs a week at its Gigafactory 1, in Nevada, by…
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea accused the Trump administration on Saturday of pushing a “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization” and called it “deeply regrettable,” hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his two days of talks in the North Korean capital were “productive.” Despite the criticism, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said the…
“There’s a large-scale, ongoing investigation of which this case is a small part,” Aaron S.J. Zelinsky, a prosecutor on Mr. Mueller’s team, said at Mr. Papadopoulos’s plea hearing this month. The transcript of the hearing was released on Monday. Continue reading the main story It is now clear, from Mr. Papadopoulos’s admission and emails related…
President Donald Trump denounced the series of improvised explosive devices that were sent to high profile Democratic leaders this week, but accused the media for using the incident to "score political points" against him and the Republican Party. "In recent days, we've had a broader conversation about the tone and civility of our national dialogue,"…
