Child care proposals: Be like Sweden?

Child care proposals: Be like Sweden?

There may be valid criticisms of the Trump (Ivanka as much as Donald) child care proposal, but The New York Times and the Huffington Post did not find them.

As is always the case with new proposed social spending, The New York Times chides the United States for being so very retrograde: "Within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a consortium of 35 countries, including the world's wealthiest, the United States stands out as the only nation that does not already guarantee paid maternity leave."

Police capture immigrant sought in New York-area bombings
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Police capture immigrant sought in New York-area bombings

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghan immigrant wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town was taken into custody Monday after a shootout with police in New Jersey, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

WABC-TV footage showed a man believed to be 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher in Linden, New Jersey. He appeared to be conscious and looking around.

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