Apple sets $55 billion domestic push and 20K jobs plan
Apple plans to spend 55 billion dollars with U.S. suppliers in 2018 and create more than 20,000 jobs, including at a new technical support campus, as it benefits from tax changes. The firm employs 84,000 across all 50 states and expects 40 billion dollars in tax savings used to reinvest.
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Trump whistle-blower protection office shields VA employee
USA TODAY exclusive details Dan Martin, chief engineer for VA hospitals in northern Indiana, whose duties were stripped after he raised concerns about contracting improprieties. The new whistle-blower office delayed discipline in his case and others, with 41 cases still open and few resolved in favor of employees. The program, mostly secret, has startup challenges and skepticism among whistle-blowers.
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Women's March returns with new voter drive Power to the Polls
On the eve of the first anniversary, Tamika Mallory outlines activism and goals for a national voter registration tour. The Power to the Polls event launches in Las Vegas to boost recruiting and elect more women and liberal candidates in 2018 races nationwide.
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New California declares independence from California
The New California group reads a Declaration of Independence claiming California is ungovernable and proposes splitting the state, leaving coastal cities separate from rural counties. Led by vice chairman Robert Paul Preston, they cite taxation, regulations, and service declines as the rationale and aim to persuade the Legislature to split the state before Congress weighs in.
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