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Aug 19 2022
News
U.S. Treasury Disputes Finding That New IRS Funding Would Increase Middle-class Taxes
As a political messaging war rages over $80 billion in new Internal Revenue Service funding, a U.S. Treasury official is pushing back on an informal estimate that the money could cause Americans earning less than $400,000 to pay as much as $20 billion more in taxes over a decade.
Republicans have seized on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate, claiming Democratic President Joe
International Business Times
Sep 27 2022
News
Chris Wallace’s CNN celebrity talk show debut tanks in ratings
Chris Wallace’s debut as the host of his own celebrity interview talk show on struggling cable news outfit CNN proved to be a dud in the ratings.
Sunday night’s premiere of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” was watched by just 401,000 viewers — which is down 29% from the 2022 average for the 7 p.m. Eastern time hour, according to the latest television ratings from Nielsen Media Research
New York Post (News)
Oct 13 2022
News
Why Jan. 6 is mostly absent from the midterms
The GOP lawmakers who backed Donald Trump-driven election challenges that metastasized into violence on Jan. 6, 2021, aren’t taking much campaign-trail heat for it.
Democrats don’t lack for material to slam Republicans as election-denying riot boosters, and in fact many of them deploy that attack while in Washington: A majority of House Republicans voted to oppose certifying 2020
Politico
Jan 19 2022
Analysis
Biden's epic failures
In the two months since signing the $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law, President Biden has by almost every measure bombed big time on the things that matter most.
The big picture: Biden, who marks one year in office next Thursday, has never been less popular nationally, after personally lobbying his party and the public on Build Back Better and voting rights — and failing.
Axios
Jan 27 2018
News
Grassley, Pelosi urge Trump: Let Mueller do his work
Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley on Friday urged the White House to let special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election-meddling “work its course,” amid reports that President Trump seriously considered firing Mr. Mueller last summer.
Washington Times
Mar 03 2023
News
Alex Murdaugh gets life in prison in murder of wife, son
In the culmination of the once-prominent lawyer’s fall from grace, Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday after being convicted of murdering his wife and son.
Judge Clifton Newman asked Murdaugh if he had anything he wanted to say before sentencing him to two consecutive life terms, and the South Carolina attorney maintained his innocence.
“As I tell
Associated Press
Nov 22 2022
News
GOP faces 2016 redux as big names explore 2024 challenge to Trump
Despite a lukewarm-at-best response to former President Donald Trump announcing another White House run last week, Republicans could find themselves in a repeat of 2016 — with a crowded field in the 2024 presidential primary enabling the 45th president to reclaim the nomination with only a plurality of support.
Trump, 76, was one of 16 candidates who sought the GOP nod in 2016,
New York Post (News)
Nov 15 2022
Opinion
Meet the celebrities and big businesses that lost big in FTX's collapse
The collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX has cost a multitude of people and organizations a substantial amount of cash.
FTX, the crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, filed for bankruptcy on Friday. The company's value has collapsed after once making Bankman-Fried a multibillionaire and a top Democratic donor. But Bankman-Fried is not the only one hurt by his company's
Washington Examiner
Mar 31 2023
Opinion
Trump’s indictment has united the Republican Party in apocalyptic rage
Thursday night was the most cringe moment in American politics since the high times of the #resistance in the early Trump administration. After news broke that Donald Trump had become the first president in US history to be charged with a crime, there were labored, overwrought historical analogies (the number of times Fox News personalities mentioned that the Rubicon had been crossed would
Vox
Jan 12 2021
News
Should Trump be removed from office?
President Trump’s role in inciting a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory has led to numerous calls for Trump to be removed from office before his term ends Jan. 20.
The top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer — have urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke
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