On facebook, we asked what issue do you want president obama and congress to address this year . President upon is expected to announce plans for federal contractors to pay employees at least 10. 10 an hour. House speaker john potter was asked about the issue when he spoke with reporters today. Heres a look. What do you think about these actions by congress . Do you have any support . The president has the authority to raise the minimum wage for the federal contracts. That understands the game. This affects not one current contract. It only affects future contracts with the federal government. I think the the question is how many people of this executive action actually help . I suspect the answer is somewhere close to zero. When it comes to the federal minimum wage, when you raise the cost of something, you get less of it. We know from increases in minimum wage in the past that hundreds of thousands of lowincome americans have lost their jobs. And so, the very people the president pur
Officials here tell me this was a local decision made by the top u. S. Commander on the ground. General John Nicholson who took this decision on his own, the pentagon has just released a video, as you mentioned, showing this bomb being released in afghanistan. You can see from the video why they call it the mother of all bombs. This weapon was designed for his psychological effect as much as anything and its meant to send a message. Today, afghan Officials Say 36 isis fighters were killed in yesterdays strike. This is an isolated part of afghanistan, a mountainous region on the border of pakistan where isis fighters moved back and forth freely. We had persistent surveillance over the area before, during, and after the operation, and now we have afghan and u. S. Forces on site and see no evidence of civilian casualties nor have there been any reports of civilian casualties. Military experts say the military bomb is the preferred weapon for underground bunkers and tunnels which raises th
Probably playing firecrackers or something. Then i heard one of the brothers call some of the brothers got shot. And then i heard some more shotguns. It was terrible. So many people, you know . Some of them were screaming, they were asking me to get some water for them. Eric that has sent shock waves around the globe. Kitty logan, what happened in court today . Reporter well, this was the initial Court Appearance by the suspect on a single murder charge. He is likely to face more charges over the other deaths, the judge tells us. Now, this is the 28yearold man whos the primary suspect in the shootings. The Court Ordered his face to be blurred. He wore a white prison outfit, and he remained silent throughout the hearing. He has been remanded in custody again until his next Court Hearing on april 8th. Meanwhile, person frenzied work is continue for the police to gather more evidence to support this court case. Of course, they also tried to establish if anyone else may be linked to this s