Category: Deep Dive

Deep Dive (June 22): 12 GOP Senators Call on DHS Chief to Release Biden’s Immigration Overhaul Blueprint

The Senate is voting on a sweeping election reform bill. Democrats say it would protect voting rights. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, “It’s a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue of voting rights, the crucial issue of voting rights in this country.” But Republicans say it would be federal overreach….


Deep Dive (June 21): Texas Becomes Second Amendment Sanctuary State

President Joe Biden is meeting with Afghanistan’s president this week, as U.S. forces leave the country. Afghanistan’s former president, Hamid Karzai, said he thinks the country will be better off without the U.S. and NATO’s military presence. While the Afghan side is friendly, it’s not so with Iran. Iran’s president-elect turns down a Biden meeting,…


Deep Dive (June 17): Florida Sends Help to Texas, Arizona Over Border Crisis

Both President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are calling the high-stakes meeting productive, despite issues remaining unsolved. Biden said afterward that he did what he came to do, while Putin waxed poetically to reporters. That’s in sharp contrast to Biden’s stance on Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Biden has been raising concerns about Beijing’s willingness…


Deep Dive (June 16): High-Stakes Meeting Between Biden, Putin in Geneva

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are facing off in a high-stakes meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday. A slew of topics is on the agenda. Senior White House officials said, “nothing is off the table for an American president.” One key issue is cybersecurity. Despite icy relations between both sides and disagreements on…


Deep Dive (June 15): ‘Human Guinea Pigs’: 117 Hospital Employees Argue Against Vaccine Mandate

The producer price index just surged a record amount, stoking inflation fears. Put together with the previous eleven months, it amounts to a 6.6 percent rise since last May—the largest twelve-month increase on record since 2010. This comes as a billionaire hedge fund manager says he’s keeping a close eye on what the Federal Reserve…


Deep Dive (June 14): G-7 Nations Pledge Democratic Alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

G-7 (Group of Seven) leaders covered a slew of topics at the summit over the weekend. The leaders have pledged to provide a democratic alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The summit also called for a transparent investigation into the origins of the pandemic, and they’re demanding that Beijing provide access to its labs….


Deep Dive (June 9): IRS Probes Leak of Richest Americans’ Tax Records

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is standing his ground. He says his position on the sweeping election reform bill remains unchanged after meeting with civil rights groups on Tuesday. Manchin is the only Senate Democrat not to have co-sponsored the bill. Negotiations on the infrastructure bill have come to an end. Now, President Joe Biden is…


Deep Dive (June 8): ‘Do Not Come’: VP Harris Has Message to Migrants While in Guatemala

Thousands of websites went offline Tuesday morning after an apparent widespread outage at cloud computing service company Fastly. People trying to reach The New York Times, CNN, Twitch, and the United Kingdom government’s home page met with error messages instead. Vice President Kamala Harris is off on her first trip abroad. While in Guatemala, Harris had…


Deep Dive (June 4): United Airlines Buys 15 Supersonic Jets That Can Slash Travel Time in Half

President Joe Biden proposes creating a minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent as a way to pay for an infrastructure bill. That’s down from the initially proposed 28 percent. The Treasury Department also discussed the global corporate minimum tax rate during a recent meeting with G-20 leaders, saying 15 percent should be the minimum. Biden also…


Deep Dive (June 3): New York Gov. Cuomo’s Investigations Fall on Taxpayers

Half of the United States announced that they would end federal pandemic unemployment benefits soon. These governors are concerned that jobless benefits are keeping millions of American workers from getting back to work. This comes as a Fed report, released Wednesday, found that despite companies increasing salaries, there’s still a shortage of workers. The Senate…