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Many of the ideas in the new Republican tax proposal have found bipartisan support in the past and support from economists who see a way to improve the economy. The controversy is over who will gain the most while the deficit explodes.
President Trump's whipsaw declarations on legal matters may give the impression of major changes, but the Justice Department appears to be doing the once-unthinkable: tuning him out. In multiple cases, federal officials have said Trump's utterances are irrelevant to government policy.
After years of a government blockade, warlord profiteering and international paralysis over the proper humanitarian response, residents have reached a breaking point in a suburb once known as the bread basket of Syria's capital.
By Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria • Read more »
Coming immediately after President Trump's condemnation of Iran as a "murderous regime" in his speech at the United Nations, Iranian officials thought the offer was a trick, saying they "don't believe you're serious."
Although Twitter initially posted a statement that the president's "account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error," the company later indicated it was caused by "a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day."
By Rachel Siegel and Hayley Tsukayama • Read more »
The president's 10-day voyage will be the longest trip taken by a U.S. president since George H.W. Bush in 1991. And in each country he visits, Trump will have a fair amount of work to do.
Many view the claims by Donna Brazile as confirmation that the party was unfairly aligned against Bernie Sanders. Throughout the campaign, the DNC and its then-chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, fiercely denied any suggestion that the party was helping Clinton over other candidates.
By Michael Scherer, David Weigel and Karen Tumulty • Read more »
The largest the hole became this year was about 7.6 million square miles wide, 1.3 million square miles smaller than last year, scientists said, and it has shrunk more since September.
The Muslim populace of Paterson doesn't want to be tarred by its association with Sayfullo Saipov, who is accused of an attack that left eight people dead in New York. But Paterson has been through this before.
To the courts in Louisiana, "give me a lawyer dog" was not an invocation of the suspect's right to counsel. The ruling could have implications for the 22-year-old who is charged with raping a juvenile, because it will allow his subsequent incriminating statements into evidence at his trial.
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