A $160 billion deal announced Monday to merge Pfizer and Allergan and create the world’s biggest drug company renewed the outcry in Washington over “inversions,” in which U.S. corporations combine with companies overseas to lower their tax bill. The combination ...
Read More »Pfizer, Allergan $160B deal forms world’s largest drugmaker
Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a $160 billion stock deal that will create the world’s largest drugmaker. It’s also the largest so-called inversion, where an American corporation combines with a company headquartered in ...
Read More »Opponent of Japanese-Americans’ WWII treatment to be honored
Relatives of a civil rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challenging the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II are alarmed by recent opposition to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S. ...
Read More »Minneapolis protest leader shakes up civil rights politics
As days of protests unfolded following last weekend’s shooting death of a black man by Minneapolis police, one prominent leader was a woman who had already been shaking up racial politics in the city. Nekima Levy-Pounds, 39, who led a ...
Read More »Nixon, 5 past governors discuss economic development
All six of Missouri’s living governors gathered Friday to tout their administrations’ economic development accomplishments and discuss the importance of building trade relationships with foreign countries. Gov. Jay Nixon said it was the first time he had and past Govs. ...
Read More »Appeals court hears arguments in DC gun law case
A federal judge who halted enforcement of a strict District of Columbia gun law didn’t have authority to rule on the case, a city lawyer argued to a federal appeals court Friday. The city’s lawyer told a three-judge panel of the ...
Read More »Mother who locked girl in closet found guilty of child abuse
A Missouri mother accused of forcing her emaciated 10-year-old daughter to eat, sleep and go to the bathroom inside a locked closet was found guilty Friday of abusing the girl. A Jackson County jury took less than three hours to ...
Read More »Obama plea to Supreme Court: Save my immigration plan
The Obama administration appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to rescue its plans to shield from deportation millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally. Moving quickly to put the issue before the justices in time for a decision while ...
Read More »Refugee refusal today compared, contrasted to that of WWII
Sol Messinger was just 7 when he stood with his father at the rail of the ocean liner St. Louis and stared into the gathering darkness. But nearly eight decades later, Messinger still recalls the lights of Miami glittering off ...
Read More »Georgia executes man convicted in 1994 slaying
A man convicted of killing a woman he met at a Georgia nightclub was put to death Thursday after losing a last-minute round of appeals. Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, was declared dead at 10:11 p.m. at the state prison in ...
Read More »Bipartisan agreement on bill to rework No Child Left Behind
The Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law has long been criticized as unworkable, too punitive and in need of repair. After years of trying, Congress is finally on the verge of rewriting the 2002 law. House and Senate negotiators ...
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