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Hundreds of people were driven from their homes in the town of South Fork, Colo.
China has long been known as the globe’s biggest currency manipulator. China undervalues its currency—the yuan or the renminbi— and that raises the price of U.S. exports and suppresses the price of Chinese imports into the United States. This artificial price advantage is a major factor that encourages U.S. businesses to shut down operations here and manufacture in China instead, costing the U.S. millions of manufacturing jobs and is a major reason for the massive U.S. trade deficit.
President Obama intends to nominate former deputy attorney general James Comey to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI Director, sources familiar with the decision told NBC News.
With a tornado threat in the forecast for Wednesday night, some of the biggest names in country music are gathering to raise money for victims of the twister that ripped through Oklahoma last week.
As demolition work began Thursday on Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Okla., remnants of life before tragedy struck were visible. Signs that read "believe, reach, love, dream, succeed.
The New York Times recently reported on how small business owners in certain cities are dealing with paid sick days laws. The takeaway? These new requirements have caused very little pain. The article highlights Bill Stone, the owner of Café Atlas in San Francisco's Mission District, who was initially leery of paid sick days for his employees back in 2007 when San Francisco became the first city in the nation to implement a paid sick leave law. In 2007 Bill felt that the new paid sick law would only make it more expensive to run his business.
A Maryland man who set out in the dark from a capsized fishing boat and swam for five hours to get help for family members stranded in the Chesapeake Bay said his actions "seemed like the only option.
