Although offshore drilling may not be as landmark of an event as the Apollo spaceflights and subsequent Moon landings, just like Apollo, it will help humanity explore more of the planet hidden by oceans.
Richmond, Virginia-based Altria Group dove headfirst into the burgeoning cannabis industry last week, sinking $1.8 billion into Cronos Group.
The 68-year-old four-star Marine Corps general has been widely expected to leave the White House over the past week, with many claiming that he and the President were no longer on speaking terms at the end of the week. Regardless, Chief of Staff John Kelly will remain as senior aide within the Trump Administration through the end of December.
“I am disappointed the Eastern District Court chose not to stay the process of developing a remedial map,” Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said following the court’s decision to deny a judicial stay on the redistricting process.
The November jobs report is off the mark of the average of 209,000 jobs created per month over the prior 12 months, but the number of employed Americans once again reached an all-time high of 156,795,000, the 13th record-breaking month since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017.
Under the international Open Skies Treaty – of which the U.S., Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and 31 other nations are a part – the Pentagon is rumored to have flown an unarmed Air Force OC-135 observation plane near Crimea, the Ukrainian region seized by Russia in a 2014 invasion.
Questions are sure to come up in Senate confirmation hearing about how the former attorney general under George H. W. Bush will handle Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, and about acting-Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Heather Nauert’s meteoric rise from journalist to powerful U.S. diplomat – considering how Trump nominees have been treated in the past.
While the Commonwealth looks to begin upgrading I-81 within the next few years, they claim the best hope is to fund all “immediate” projects by 2060, over four decades from now. Money still poses a problem as, according to VDOT, widening the interstate would cost an estimated 10 to 15 million dollars for every mile of pavement.
“If Democrats take the House Majority they will push to legalize abortions right up until the birth of the child,” the Virginia GOP said as the 2019 statewide election season begins.
Criticizing President Donald Trump with a “dystopian” view of the world’s future, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chairwoman Christine Lagarde said that global economic prosperity means promoting equality within the trading system to reduce global tensions, including rescinding government subsidies for large industries and protecting technology and intellectual property, which, in fact, are issues Trump ran on during the 2016 presidential election.
