ABC News has confirmed that a Labor Department proposal to increase the federal threshold under which employers are required to pay overtime to salaried employees is under review by the Office of Management and Budget. It could be unveiled in the coming days. Such a step would not require any congressional approval. … [Read more...]
Survey Points to Challenges NATO Faces Over Russia
WASHINGTON - As NATO faces a resurgent Russian military, a substantial number of Europeans do not believe that their own countries should rush to defend an ally against attack, according to a comprehensive survey to be made public on Wednesday. … [Read more...]
Meanwhile in the Future: When Antibiotics Stop Working
This week’s episode of Meanwhile in the Future gets very scary, very quickly. And we’re not going all that far into the future, either. We’re already starting to see the beginnings of an age without antibiotics. So what does a world without these drugs look like? Listen to find out. … [Read more...]
MERS Virus’s Path: One Man, Many South Korean Hospitals
SEOUL, South Korea - At first, doctors thought the 68-year-old man might have simple pneumonia. He coughed and wheezed his way through four hospitals before officials figured out, nine days later, that he had something far more serious and contagious. … [Read more...]
Jeb Bush to call for closer ties with Europe in Berlin speech
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will call for the U.S. to deepen economic ties with Europe in his first major foreign policy speech as a presumptive presidential candidate Tuesday in Berlin. … [Read more...]
Turkey’s Ruling Party Loses Parliamentary Majority – New York Times
ISTANBUL — Turkish voters delivered a rebuke on Sunday to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as his party lost its majority in Parliament in a historic election that thwarted his ambition to rewrite Turkey’s Constitution and further bolster his clout. … [Read more...]
Tough-Talking El Bronco Poised to Take Mexican Governor’s Race
MEXICO CITY — A cussing rancher known as El Bronco, who made Mexico’s first serious run for governor as an independent candidate, handily defeated his competition on Sunday, according to exit polls, in a race closely watched as a sign of voter frustration with entrenched, established parties they see as ineffectual and corrupt. … [Read more...]
Texas Cop Put on Leave After Video of Arrest Surfaces
A McKinney, Texas, police officer has been put on administrative leave after a video surfaced of him forcing a 14-year-old girl in a bikini to the ground and kneeling on her back and then drawing his gun on others who came to her aid. … [Read more...]