Democratic lawmakers in Virginia have introduced bills to raise taxes on millionaires (creating new brackets with rates up to 10% for those earning over $1 million), impose a 3.8% tax on investment income, add an 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition manufacturers and expand sales taxes to services like gym memberships, nail care, tattoos, dog grooming, dry cleaning and landscaping.
President Trump on Friday said he canceled an "expected second Wave of Attacks" on Venezuela, less than a week after U.S. strikes in Caracas resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of 'Seeking Peace,'" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social....
The U.S. added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4 percent in December, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Economists expected the December jobs report to show a gain of roughly 55,000 jobs and the jobless rate to tick down to 4.5 percent, according to consensus estimates. The Bureau...
President Trump on Friday is expected to meet with oil and executives, as the administration advances its efforts to capitalize on Venezuela's massive oil reserves following last weekend's raid. The fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday has raised tensions nationally, as Republicans and Democrats...
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A week ago, it looked like Minnesota Democrats had stumbled into a scandal that might cost their party any chance to win back the U.S. Senate and at the very least turn a safe gubernatorial race into a desperate fight. A reliable mid-single digit win for Democrats on the presidential level even in tough years,...
Hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis earlier this week. The anger among demonstrators grew even more Thursday, after reports emerged of a separate shooting involving Border Patrol in Portland, Ore., which left...
President Trump on Thursday said the United States will soon strike drug cartels on land. "We are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico," Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” without providing further details about the plans. His comments follow a monthslong U.S....
President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in a interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas. “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told the The New York Times Wednesday night when asked...
Two people were hospitalized on Thursday after a shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Portland, Ore., according to officials. Local police said they responded to a call from one of the people wounded at around 2:24 p.m. local time. “Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel. The patients were transported to the...
President Trump on Thursday said his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping, would have to determine himself if he will use military force against Taiwan. The president told The New York Times regarding a potential operation led by Beijing that Xi considers Taiwan "to be a part of China and that's up to him what he's...
White House officials have weighed possibly giving lump sum payments to Greenlanders in an attempt to sway them into seceding from Denmark, as the Trump administration brings back its calls to have Greenland join the U.S., Reuters reported. Government officials, including White House aides, have discussed different figures, from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, sources...
