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Lobbying blitz blankets Washington to push tax deal in Congress

Hundreds of business lobbies have sprung into action to prod members of Congress to pass a bipartisan bill that would revive Trump-era tax breaks for companies and expand the Child Tax Credit.

Trump, fresh off primary victories, may testify as E. Jean Carroll trial resumes in New York

Donald Trump is set to return Thursday to a Manhattan courtroom, where he may testify against columnist E. Jean Carroll's claims he raped her in a New York department store and later defamed her.

Biden revisits decaying Wisconsin bridge to announce $5B for infrastructure in election year pitch

The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge - pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it.

The real reason the Senate border deal collapsed

The narrative creation merchants are busy Thursday morning trying to cast the collapse of border security talks between Senate Republicans and the White House as a cynical ploy to help former President Donald Trump’s campaign at the expense of ending the border crisis. Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman is reporting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

We need less capital punishment, but not why you might think

More criminals may deserve the death penalty than get it, but it is an impractical method of punishment we do not have to use anymore.  Alabama is executing a death-row inmate on Thursday with a new method using nitrogen hypoxia gas, a vapor meant to suffocate the inmate. The state tried and failed to execute […]

First execution with nitrogen gas set for Thursday night in Alabama

Alabama is slated to perform an execution using nitrogen gas Thursday night, in what will be the first time this method has been used in the United States. The decision comes after both the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to halt the Yellowhammer State's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene...

Naomi Biden says Fox’s Jesse Watters crossed a line

Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of President Biden, decried Fox News host Jesse Watters over a monologue he delivered earlier this week attacking the president for his posture on immigration and issues related to the southern border. "I have heard so many lies about my family, it takes a lot to make me upset. This crosses...

Microsoft laying off 1,900 workers, extending tech job losses in early 2024

Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 workers in its Gaming unit, extending tech job losses in early 2024. The cuts represent roughly a 9 percent reduction at Activision Blizzard and Xbox from the 22,000 employees. The president of the subsidiary, Mike Ybarra, is leaving the company, according to a post on X, formerly known as...

Tim Scott on Trump’s Nikki Haley attacks: ‘He does what he does’

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) appeared to downplay former President Trump's attacks on GOP primary rival Nikki Haley following his win in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, arguing Trump "does what he does." Scott appeared alongside Trump during the former president's victory speech Tuesday, when Trump levied a series of attacks against Haley, the former governor of...

Expanding the child tax credit won’t actually help poor children

Making the expansion permanent would reduce the incentive for parents to work and marry, all without any positive effect on intergenerational economic mobility.

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