Momentum is building around legislation that could mean higher Social Security benefits for some Americans as Senate leadership tees up a vote for next week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) caught some senators by surprise this week when he took the first step to set up consideration of the Social Security Fairness Act, announcing plans to bring up the bill for a vote next week. "The Senate is going to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act before the end of the year," he said Thursday, calling the move a chance for senators to "do the right thing for our teachers and nurses and postal workers and law enforcement officers and firefighters." |
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President-elect Trump is facing calls from House Republicans to settle a disagreement between the chambers on how the GOP should start tackling its agenda. As some top House Republicans dig in on starting with a reconciliation bill focused on taxes, members of the conference are looking to Trump to set the course. "Ultimately and pretty immanently, the President is going to call the question on this and call the play to say we either got to do two or one. There's not really a whole lot more being said about [it] from Smith," Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) said, referring to Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.). |
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The second time's a charm for President-elect Trump — at least when it comes to an election win getting him the establishment recognition he has always sought. Trump has received a display of homage at home and abroad since winning November's contest over Vice President Harris. It's the kind of public pomp that eluded him after his shock victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. |
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President-elect Trump on Friday evening called for authorities to shoot down the mysterious drones that have been seen in the skies of New Jersey and around the country. He also suggested the government must know more about the mysterious sightings. |
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Experts are worried about how President-elect Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary will affect vaccination rates for school children, which have been on the decline. Schools have seen a drop in childhood vaccinations since the COVID-19 pandemic, when critics of the COVID-19 vaccines increased anti-vaccine sentiments in general. Public health groups see vaccines as a huge bulwark against disease and fear Kennedy will only increase skepticism if he is confirmed. |
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Friday blasted "specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress" after The New York Times reported that a lawyer linked to Robert F. Kennedy has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. McConnell, a polio survivor, warned that "efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they're dangerous." |
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A federal appeals court in Washington denied a request from the social platform TikTok that would effectively delay the ban of the app next month. The rejection comes after the company sought to stop the ban Monday, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to temporarily block the law that could ban the app next month from going into effect Jan. 19 as it prepares to appeal to the Supreme Court. |
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President-elect Trump and anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit for depositions next week in Trump's defamation case against ABC News, a judge ruled Friday. Trump sued the network and the anchor in March after Stephanopoulos repeatedly said on air that a jury found Trump "liable for rape" in a lawsuit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. |
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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban said he ignored notes that Vice Presidential Harris's campaign was giving him while he was their acting surrogate on the trail. "I would go into immigration and, you know, I was honest, I would not let the Harris campaign tell me what to say. They would try to give me notes and I would say, 'I don't care,'" Cuban said during his Thursday appearance on comedian Jon Stewart's podcast "The Weekly Show." |
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OPINION | After more than a decade of violent, vicious repression, Bashar al-Assad's reign collapsed when his chief benefactors, Iran and Russia, focused their resources and attention at home rather than on Damascus. There are more questions coming out of Syria than answers, but the experience has made one thing very clear for nations everywhere: Countries in conflict cannot survive without their friends. |
OPINION | I was an early supporter of Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign for president, writing in the local newspaper where I was editor that Trump, "whatever his faults, is most definitely a leader" and later in the Washington Post arguing that Trump was "a game-changer, a disrupter, a practitioner of what I see as 'crafted chaos.'" Sadly, thanks to a united opposition comprised of Democrats, Never-Trump Republicans, the entrenched bureaucracy and much of the media — compounded by his own lack of discipline — Trump fell short of fulfilling the promise that many of us held for him, eventually costing him the 2020 election. |
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People came by the thousands the day after the rebels arrived in Damascus, racing down the once desolate stretch of road, up a jagged footpath cut into the limestone hillside and through the towering metal gates of Syria's most notorious prison. They flooded the halls lined with cells, searching for loved ones who had disappeared into the black hole of torture prisons under Bashar al-Assad's government.
Some tore through the offices of the prison, Sednaya, looking for maps of the building and prisoner logs. One woman shoved a photograph of her missing son toward others walking by, hoping someone had found him. "Do you recognize him?" she pleaded. "Please, please, did you see him?" |
BY RUTH SIMON AND MICHELLE HACKMAN |
Nate Koetje, chief executive of an electrical contractor based in Grand Rapids, Mich., would like to hire as many as 200 workers next year. Despite a somewhat cooling labor market, he said he would be lucky to find 150.
So if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to eliminate programs that provide temporary work permits to immigrants with no permanent legal status, Koetje's growing company would face even more staffing challenges. The company, Feyen Zylstra, now employs two people whose ability to continue working is at risk. |
South Korea's parliament on Saturday voted to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree this month, a shocking stunt that paralyzed the country's politics, halted foreign policy and spooked financial markets.
His suspension from power comes almost eight years after the impeachment of Seoul's last conservative leader, Park Geun-hye, formally removed from office by the Constitutional Court in March 2017. Yoon, a former public prosecutor, was part of the investigation team that examined Park's charges of bribery, abuse of power and other crimes that the court concluded warranted her removal from office. |
With just over a month before he leaves office, President Joe Biden has spent the past week engaged in a presidential tradition as common as Thanksgiving turkey pardons and Sunday golf outings: burnishing his legacy for the history books. But for a president whose final months have featured a string of frustrations — being pressured to exit his reelection campaign in July, only to see his party swept from power a short time later — the accomplishments tour has been anything but a simple recitation of White House highlights. At times, Biden's frustrations, even resentments, have seeped through. |
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