Lula da Silva recently expanded his cabinet. He added two parties that once backed Jair Bolsonaro. Each new party gets a ministry, raising the total cabinet count to 38. This is Lula’s second effort to grow his legislative support. Lula shared the news last Wednesday. He spoke to the nation on Independence Day. The next […]
The sales tax in Milwaukee will go up 2 cents per dollar next year after the Common Council voted Tuesday to raise the rate as part of a bipartisan plan to avoid bankruptcy. City leaders who pushed for approval of the higher sales tax warned of looming deep cuts to core services, including police and […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend repeated his claim that the U.S. is sending less and less military aid to Israel. Netanyahu described a “dramatic drop” over the past four months in comments to his cabinet this weekend. He said he spent weeks pleading unsuccessfully with U.S. officials in private, leading to the public […]