A New York Times report shows that President Trump used tax strategies that are unavailable to most Americans. Households in the middle 20 percent paid an average of about three times what Trump reportedly paid in 2016 and 2017.
From the first wave in February in China through New York City’s April catastrophe and on to India’s current surge, the coronavirus has unleashed worldwide suffering with no evident exit.
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Parscale, who ran the president's campaign until July, was taken willingly to the hospital by police under a Florida law that allows authorities to detain a person they think poses a danger to themselves.
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Democratic nominee Joe Biden, awash in campaign money, is spending freely in contested states and pressing his advantage among targeted groups.
The president believes that he alone, unfiltered, can rescue his reelection chances. But it’s not clear that his incendiary words are persuading many voters.
Amy Coney Barrett’s role as a speaker at the training program for Christian law students drew scrutiny when Trump nominated her to be a federal appellate judge, and it may do so again now.
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The court delayed hearing the appeal over the acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002.
The Postal Service continues to rate favorably despite recent delivery backlogs and President Trump’s attacks on voting by mail, according to The Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
A judge said that Uber had overcome “historical failings” and was now a “fit and proper” operator in what is one of its biggest markets in the world.
Restaurants are scrambling for solutions — yet again — before they face what one chef called an “extinction event.”
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Tens of millions of Americans have gotten the stimulus payments. But some people are still waiting for their relief, either for dependent children or because they earn too little to file a tax return.
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One of the biggest potential impacts of Barrett’s presence on the high court would be on who has standing to bring an environmental lawsuit.
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