A spokesperson for the Unrig Our Economy coalition called the GOP package “a reverse Robin Hood of the highest order.” House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that would deliver a slew of tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, giveaways that the party aims to fund with unprecedented cuts to Medicaid and federal...
Marco Velazquez owns a South Side home in Chicago that he was trying sell. One day earlier this month, his realtor went by the home to show it to a potential buyer and discovered a couple had already moved in and claimed they were the rightful owners. Velazquez called the police. “I couldn’t believe it....
Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada, called the idea of Canada becoming America’s 51st state “crazy.” This assumes President Donald Trump was serious, as opposed to Trump taking a whack at former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In his acceptance speech, Carney said, “The Americans want our resources, our water,...
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to be suspended in times of “rebellion or invasion”. His comments come as judges have sought to challenge some recent detentions made by the Trump administration in an effort to combat illegal immigration,...
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database has been around since 1980. A key database measuring the economic impact of large-scale disasters is being terminated by the Trump administration, dealing a severe blow to the tracking of extreme weather events that has existed for decades. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Billion Dollar...
Gary Neville says he was urged to complete his takeover of Salford City with David Beckham as he “didn’t want to feel like a stranger in my own house”. Read full article at source...
Former US president Joe Biden has told the BBC that the pressure put on Ukraine by President Donald Trump to end its war with Russia amounts to “modern-day appeasement” by his successor. In his first interview since leaving the White House, Biden discussed the 80th anniversary of VE Day, and told Radio 4’s Today programme...
How is it possible that the FBI reached the conclusion back in 2017 that the Alexandria baseball practice shooting by James Hodkinson was just an attempt at “suicide by cop” and not motivated by politics. Today, GOP members of the House Intel Committee released a new report based on its own review of the entire...
PDF metadata revealed a letter circulated in the House was written by Paragon Health Institute President Brian Blase. A letter that a group of 20 far-right House Republicans released earlier this week as part of a campaign in support of slashing Medicaid appears to have been authored by the head of a research institute with...
Jill Sobule, a ground-breaking American songwriter whose hit I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first song with openly-gay themes to crack the Billboard Top 20, has died in a house fire in the US city of Minneapolis, her publicist has said. Sobule, whose satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 coming-of-age film Clueless,...
US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his post with the Trump adminstration, according to media reports. Waltz, who was the president’s principal adviser on national security issues, has had a difficult tenure amid accusations that senior officials used insecure methods of communication to conduct government business. Last month, he took responsibility for a...
House prices fell in April as buyers faced paying thousands of pounds more in stamp duty, according to new figures from Nationwide. Prices were down 0.6% month-on-month, the building society said. The slowdown in the market was expected due to changes to stamp duty thresholds kicking in on 1 April. Annual house price growth also...
The National Climate Assessment is required by law to be published every four years. The Trump administration abruptly announced this week that it is dismissing all contributors and coauthors for the National Climate Assessment, an examination of the global climate crisis and its effects on several aspects of society that is required by law to...
Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images The White House has hit back against a reported plan by Amazon to detail the price impact of Donald Trump’s trade tariffs to its customers, calling it a “hostile” political act. Amazon told the Washington Post it had looked into itemising the costs for customers using Amazon...
And will Trump try to influence the election of the next Pope? Read full article at source...