| With an eye on tax reform, President Trump courts Democrats Posted: 12 Sep 2017 01:32 PM PDT ![With an eye on tax reform, President Trump courts Democrats]( "With an eye on tax reform, President Trump courts Democrats") President Trump's top priority is now tax reform, and he is intent on making sure that this effort does not go the way of health-care reform: a failure to secure enough votes from members of his own party. On Tuesday evening, the president and vice president are hosting a dinner with both Republican and Democratic senators. "The president has been clear that his preference is to get tax reform done on a bipartisan basis," Mr. Short told reporters at a breakfast Tuesday hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.
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| As Myanmar's Rakhine crisis deepens, so does state bid for media control Posted: 12 Sep 2017 01:31 PM PDT ![As Myanmar's Rakhine crisis deepens, so does state bid for media control]( "As Myanmar's Rakhine crisis deepens, so does state bid for media control") In just two weeks, clashes between insurgents and Myanmar's military have driven almost 400,000 Rohingya refugees into neighboring Bangladesh – as many refugees as crossed the Mediterranean in all of 2016.
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| Hurricanes may be getting bigger, but death toll is shrinking Posted: 12 Sep 2017 01:10 PM PDT ![Hurricanes may be getting bigger, but death toll is shrinking]( "Hurricanes may be getting bigger, but death toll is shrinking") In Jennings, Fla., handyman and "man of God" Bubba Smith held onto his wife during hurricane Irma, who sang "whoo-ee" when the wind roared, their prayers joining as chorus. Here in Perry, Fla., Billy Williamson, a former Lake County sheriff's deputy, holed up in a 1920 bungalow with boards nailed helter-skelter across its windows, alongside 24 family members and some lanky hunting dogs. Recommended: Think you know the Sunshine State?
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| Getting up close with the criminal justice system Posted: 12 Sep 2017 12:34 PM PDT ![Getting up close with the criminal justice system]( "Getting up close with the criminal justice system") This year marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark report on criminal justice titled "The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society." Written by a special commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, it called for "a revolution in the way America thinks about crime." While some of the proposed reforms took hold, the "revolution" never really happened. The United States still has one of the world's highest incarceration rates. Now a bipartisan group in Congress is calling for a new commission on crime.
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