High blood pressure: Lowering your reading to THIS could protect against memory loss

However experts have now found lowering blood pressure in older adults can help keep symptoms of dementia at bay – and keep minds sharp. High blood pressure is measured using two numbers. The systolic blood pressure – which is the top number – is the force behind the heart pumping. The second number – the […]

The GOP needs new ideas for lowering taxes

Win McNamee/Getty Images If there’s one thing that’s united Republicans since the Reagan era, it’s enthusiasm for tax cuts. But these days one gets the unmistakable impression that the Laffer curve dream has died. For one thing, the Trump administration has reportedly abandoned the ludicrously large tax cut the president campaigned on last year. And in […]

Lawmakers across the US are trying to make it easier for young people to vote — including lowering the voting age to 17

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists during his presidential campaign angered Heidi Sainz, whose family is from Mexico and who has close friends who are immigrants. She was also upset that she couldn’t do anything about it at the ballot box because she was […]