- By mid-January, President Trump may have an opportunity to impose new sanctions on Iran that would derail the historic nuclear agreement, signed by Iran, the US, European states, Russia and China. Even as key members of Trump’s national security team try to preserve the nuclear deal, Trump may opt to kill it. (” How Trump could kill the Iran nuclear deal in January,” Politico, Dec. 28, 2017; “Following up tough talk, Trump administration adds sanctions on Iran,” Jackson Observer, Dec. 28, 2017)
- United Nations child protection workers have been deployed to the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic looking for Haitian children who may be abandoned, trafficked or separated from their families. (“They’re abandoned and separated. This is the perilous plight of Haiti’s children,” Miami Herald, Dec. 26, 2017)
- Investors in private prisons were big winners in the new Republican tax cut legislation that slashed tax rates for the wealthy and big corporations. As the same time, key middle-class benefits such as deductions for state and local taxes were scaled back. (“Private prison investors set for giant windfall from Trump tax bill,” The Guardian, Dec. 28, 2017)
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