After more than 50 years of cold war the US and Cuba are warming up and agreed to have relations.... The diplomatic kind.
US is going to lift restrictions on banking and travel. Those restrictions date all the way back to when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba during the Cold War. Obama used executive authority to dial back restrictions, but it’s still up to Congress to give the OK to lift the whole embargo.
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is inviting New Yorkers to an Open House at the Executive Mansion on Wednesday, December 31 to celebrate the New Year. All adults over the age of 16 wishing to attend must have a ticket. Individuals who receive tickets will be allowed to bring one guest and any underage children from their household – children must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets to the Open House are required and space is limited.
New Yorkers wishing to attend should visit the Governor's website to register: https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/executive-mansion-open-house.
Maryland Representative Chris Van Hollen returned from Cuba with Alan Gross and a new US strategy of engagement with Cuba:
For over 50 years, US officials have tried to bring about positive change and reform in Cuba by attempting to isolate the island nation. It is clear that policy has been a miserable failure. Over the last five decades, the Castro brothers have outlasted over eight American presidents and very little has changed. The oft-cited definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
New York state has decided to ban fracking, making shale off-limits all across the state. The New York fracking ban comes as experts deem that shale gas extraction carries unacceptable risks that haven't been sufficiently studied.
The New York City premiere of Sony's spoof comedy film The Interview has now officially been cancelled.
The Interview is a comedy about the assassination of North Korea's president, but it has has been cancelled amid threats from hackers.
Major US movie theater chains are delaying plans to show Sony Pictures' North Korea parody "The Interview" after threats made on cinemas showing the major motion picture by a hacking group that waged a cyberattack on the Hollywood studio.
The governments of US and Cuba are paving the way for a massive overhaul in their political policies.
For more than five decades, US has kept an economic embargo on Cuba, but all of this is now changing under the Obama administration. Today President Obama begins a broad range of diplomatic and regulatory measures that are considered the most sweeping change in U.S. policy toward Cuba since the 1961 embargo was imposed.
US Congress on tonight extended tax breaks for 2014. It took senators until now to pass the bill, which the House had already approved. The bill will now be sent to President Obama, who's expected to sign.
Deduction for teachers' expenses: This allows school teachers deduct up to $250 for the costs of classroom supplies they buy with their own money. It's available to all teachers, whether they itemize or not.
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Police officials in Pakistani say explosions at a High School, which was attacked by Taliban has caused the deaths of nearly one hundred.
Approximately 84 students were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students and teachers hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in years. Armed troops surrounded the building in as attempt to rescue the remaining students.
The doctor is making official House calls and also the US Senate. Senators narrowly confirmed President Obama's Surgeon General, who is a Harvard Medical School staffer after fierce opposition from NRA and gun-rights advocates in Congress.
The 36-year-old co-founded Doctors for America in May 2009, just as the fight over the Affordable Care Act was gearing up. The country's main doctor trade group, the American Medical Association, remained neutral on the Affordable Care Act. In founding Doctors for America, Dr. V Murthy entered the spotlight when he supported Obamacare.