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Beyond the Rhetoric: Border Adjustment Tax – The Great Equalizer
Right now, if a company makes a product in the United States and sells the product overseas, it is required to pay income taxes to the U.S. on the income from the sale. But under a border adjustment, companies would no longer be required to pay income taxes to the U.S. on their income from exports – because the products are not sold in the United States.
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Watch A New Trailer For Dave Chappelle’s Two Upcoming Stand-Up Specials
A Tribe Called Quest provides the soundtrack.
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Doctors Risking Their Lives to Save Syrians
Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is a US-based relief organization providing medical care in Syria as the civil war rages. The charity has about 1,700 doctors working in 110 medical facilities that have treated 3 million people across the country. SAMS provides immediate trauma and intensive care -- as well as offering specialty, long-term care.
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Joe Biden: The Fight Against Cancer is Bipartisan
The fight against cancer knows no party lines. "The only bipartisan thing left in America is the fight against cancer," former vice president Joe Biden said during a keynote speech at the annual SXSW festival.
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Connect With Your Kidneys: DaVita Kicks Off National Kidney Month
DaVita Kidney Care, a division of DaVita Inc. (DVA) and a leading provider of kidney care services in the United States, today celebrates the beginning of National Kidney Month by asking people to take a short risk quiz to help determine their risk of kidney disease, one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.
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'Iron Fist' Is The First Marvel Netflix Series You'll Struggle With
Marvel bet big on Netflix's The Defenders rolling out to strong success. How Iron Fist became the first dud of the saga.
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Soy Nut Butter Recall Expands After More Cases of E. coli
Four more people have become ill with E. coli linked to contaminated soy nut butter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday, bringing the total number of reported cases to 16.
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House Begins Marathon Obamacare Repeal Markups
Republicans opened their effort to quickly drive a bill to repeal Obamacare through Congress in simultaneous committee sessions Wednesday that could extend late into the night and possibly into the morning.
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Kansas Shooting Survivor Recalls Deadly Night: 'I still feel this is not reality'
Having a couple of drinks after work at Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, Kansas, was something Alok Madasani did often with his friend Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
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Music Industry Insider Shanti Das Works on Health Awareness in Atlanta
Music-industry veteran Shanti Das grew up in an Atlanta neighborhood considered a food desert — heavy on fast-food restaurants and limited on access to grocery stores with fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthy food choices.
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Space Center Houston’s Cosmic Spring Break Lineup Offers Incredible Experience
Touch a rare Mars meteorite, see where astronauts train, engineer a robot or have lunch with an astronaut during Space Center Houston’s Cosmic Spring Break, presented by the city of Webster March 11-19.
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NASA's Women Space Pioneers to Star in New Lego Set
Five women scientists will receive the rare honor of being immortalized as inch-tall plastic figures with claws for hands.
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Usain Bolt: 'No hard feelings' After Losing Olympic Gold
Usain Bolt may have lost one of his Olympic gold medals after compatriot Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance -- but the Jamaican says he has "no hard feelings" towards his sprint relay teammate.
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SpaceX to Fly Two Space Tourists Around the Moon in 2018
Two tourists are paying SpaceX for a trip around the moon next year.
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5 Things for Tuesday, February 28: SpaceX, North Korea, Plane Crash
Here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
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Crocheted Octopi Comfort Preemies In Hospital NICU
These cuddly toys are used as a form of therapy to help comfort and calm premature babies, according to officials at Poole Hospital.
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Mardi Gras Truck Crash: Driver Had .232 blood-alcohol Level, Police Say
The man accused of driving a truck into a Mardi Gras parade crowd, injuring 28 people, had a blood-alcohol level almost three times the legal limit, New Orleans police said Sunday.
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Brightwood College and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Bank Announce Spring Blood Drive March 6
Local campus to host Blood Drive from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
February 20, 2017 – Brightwood College in Houston, in partnership with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Bank, will host a Spring Blood Drive Monday, March 6 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The public is invited to join the campus in donating blood for Houston-area patients. Attendees can sign up in advance to donate blood at bit.ly/2khyDnY. Free health checks and campus tours will be available. Also, free t-shirts will be given to blood donors.
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UPS Honors Texas Drivers For 25 Years of Safe Driving
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced that 124 elite drivers from Texas are among 1,575 newly inducted worldwide into the Circle of Honor, an honorary organization for UPS drivers who have achieved 25 or more years of accident-free driving.
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Can the Foods You Eat Enhance Your Sex Life?
A new Valentine's Day may bring a new relationship, a new box of chocolates or even fresh new roses. But there's one thing that will probably not be so novel when Cupid makes his latest entry: the notion that certain foods that can actually increase our longing for lovemaking and enhance our sex life.
