LIVE NOW: Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing on Benefits for Independent Workers

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee holds a hearing titled “Freedom to Work: Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers” at 10 a.m. ET on July 17. Witnesses include Patrice Onwuka, director at the Center for Economic Opportunity, Independent Women’s Forum; Kim Kavin, editor at Imagine Media LLC; Kev Cole… Original News Source Link –

Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing on Benefits for Independent Workers

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee holds a hearing titled “Freedom to Work: Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers” at 10 a.m. ET on July 17. Witnesses include Patrice Onwuka, director at the Center for Economic Opportunity, Independent Women’s Forum; Kim Kavin, editor at Imagine Media LLC; Kev Cole… Original News Source Link –

Britain to lower voting age to 16 before next national election

London — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 to lower the voting age for elections to Britain’s Parliament. Scotland and Wales already let

NPR CEO: Cuts could be “a real risk to the public safety of the country”

Before the Senate voted early Thursday morning to pass a rescissions package that includes major cuts to public broadcasting, National Public Radio President and CEO Katherine Maher warned, “defunding this is a real risk to the public safety of the country.” “Public media, public radio, public television, are a critical part of the emergency response

China Will Sentence Fentanyl Traffickers to Death, Trump Says

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the HALT Fentanyl Act in the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2025. Nathan Howard/Reuters WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a crowd at the White House, which included dozens of family members of fentanyl poisoning victims, that China will honor a deal he made with