Protesters in a park in Chicago wore shirts urging lawmakers to tax the rich. In Manhattan, they blocked an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. In Dallas, they showed solidarity with immigrant workers. And in Washington, they appealed for higher wages with a simple chant. “What’s outrageous? They don’t pay us!” In dozens of…
House Republicans had big plans for Earth Day this year: They would pass a bill to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. It didn’t work out that way. On Wednesday afternoon, Republican leaders suddenly canceled a vote on the measure after an initial procedural vote showed shaky support…
Shorouk Express The moves echo a French proposal backed in July by Europe’s steel lobby EUROFER and 11 EU nations, including Spain and Italy. That plan proposed slashing the bloc’s current steel safeguard quotas by 40 percent to 50 percent. Imports exceeding the quotas would catch a 50 percent tariff. “As a non-EU country, we…
