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President Trump's last-minute pitch to raise taxes on the highest-income Americans could be rewriting the conventional Republican political wisdom on the issue.
The president has sent mixed messages publicly about where he stands on the policy, and whether he thinks it's good politics — both recognizing the political perils of reneging on a promise to keep tax rates lower, while seeing the upside in neutralizing Democratic arguments and finding more revenue. |
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President Trump is easing up his pressure on Ukraine and sending serious warnings to Russia as he renews calls for a 30-day ceasefire in the grinding war. Trump on Thursday repeated threats of new sanctions against Moscow, and Washington is reportedly working with European partners on a ceasefire proposal and sanctions package, ready to be employed if Russian President Vladimir Putin fails to agree. |
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Jeanine Pirro, whom President Trump selected this week to serve as the top prosecutor in the District of Columbia, is just the latest in a slew of Fox News hosts and personalities to join the president's administration this year. Pirro on Thursday became one of more than a dozen former Fox employees or contributors who have spoken glowingly about the president on the network's air and been rewarded with top jobs in his government. |
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The House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, on Friday evening released partial text for its portion of President Trump's "big beautiful bill" and scheduled a markup for the legislation for Tuesday at 2 p.m. Changes to the text are still possible before that Tuesday markup. |
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BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that President Trump and his team are "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration's immigration crackdown. "Well, the Constitution is clear — and that of course is the supreme law of the land — that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion," Miller told reporters at the White House. |
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BY COLIN MEYN AND FILIP TIMOTIJA |
President Trump on Friday issued his clearest sign yet of his desire to de-escalate the trade war he started with China last month. "80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, publicly advising Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to lower tariffs on China from the current 145 percent rate. |
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BY FILIP TIMOTIJA AND SARAH POLUS | A federal judge issued a ruling Friday ordering a temporary pause in the Trump administration's plan to slash various agencies and fire tens of thousands of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of California issued a two-week pause, arguing that while the president can institute changes to federal agencies and conduct mass layoffs, he has to perform them in "lawful ways." |
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The United States will begin admitting the first group of White South African refugees next week, whom President Trump's administration has argued have been victims of "racial discrimination." "The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty. And historically it has been used that way…this is an example of the president returning the refugee program to what it's intended to be used as," White House's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday. |
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President Trump said that he signed an executive order Friday to formally launch a self-deportation program to further incentivize migrants living in the United States illegally to leave the country. "We are making it as easy as possible for illegal aliens to leave America. Any illegal alien can simply show up at an airport and receive a free flight out of our country," Trump said in a video that was posted on social media Friday. |
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OPINION | Now that Elon Musk has announced his intention to leave the Department of Government Efficiency and return to his private-sector companies, it is appropriate to review what DOGE has and has not accomplished — and what needs to happen in the future. |
OPINION | What happens when corporations are allowed to cause harm without consequence? Across the country, state legislatures and Congress are considering laws that would give chemical manufacturers just that: liability shields that protect them from lawsuits, even when their products are linked to cancer, infertility or birth defects. |
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BY THEODORE SCHLEIFER AND SHANE GOLDMACHER |
President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party's all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the GOP big-money world, which had long been one of the party's final remaining redoubts of Trump skepticism.
For years, the super PACs allied with House and Senate Republicans have been some of the most powerful and independent fiefs in American politics, raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars in each election. But even though Trump is in his second term and cannot run again, he is quickly bringing them inside his sphere of influence — a sign that his dominance over the party could endure well into the future. |
BY STACEY MEICHTRY, MARGHERITA STANCATI, IAN LOVETT AND MARCUS WALKER |
Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo's monumental fresco of the Last Judgement, buried his head in his hands as the sound of his name echoed off the walls of the Sistine Chapel.
It was Thursday morning, and the prelates running the conclave were reading out the ballots. The papal election was shifting the way of the Chicago-born cardinal. His tally was rising with each round of voting, while support for the early front-runner—Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin—was stagnating.
A realization weighed visibly on Prevost, said three cardinals who watched his reaction: He was on track to become the 267th pope of the global Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion faithful. |
Talks planned this weekend between U.S. and Chinese officials in Switzerland are a culmination of more than three months of dizzying rounds of retaliatory tariffs between the two countries that have crippled each other's exporters and dragged on their economies.
Washington and Beijing are entering talks with tariffs on each other's goods at an all-time high. U.S. duties on Chinese imports stand at 145 percent, while China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods have reached 125 percent. President Trump said he believed the talks could bring tangible progress, and that he was open to lowering the tariffs substantially if Beijing made concessions. China, however, has reiterated calls for Washington to cancel the tariffs ahead of the talks. |
The scene outside Laola Surf Camp was Instagram-perfect. A towering palm tree leaned over the black-sand beach. Surfers paddled out to catch breaking waves. Families on Easter break sat under colorful umbrellas. If you walked along the water to town, you'd find new hotels and restaurants, souvenir shops, and a tattoo parlor.
It was the image of an up-and-coming travel destination that El Salvador and President Nayib Bukele want to show the world. But that's not the version of this Central American country that most people are seeing in the news. |
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