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Senate Republicans Want to Trim Some of Trump’s Tax Cuts in Domestic Policy Bill
Even before the House passed the sweeping bill carrying President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, Senate Republicans made it clear that…
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Crypto Bill Stalls in the Senate as Democrats Balk
A first-of-its-kind bill to regulate parts of the cryptocurrency industry stalled in the Senate on Thursday, after Democrats blocked it…
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TikTok, Facing a U.S. Ban, Tells Advertisers: We’re Here and Confident
“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business solutions, told a packed warehouse of…
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Why Designated Beneficiaries Are Key to Your Estate Planning
Before Zygmund Furmaniuk’s aunt Mary died in 2023, she set up a trust to hold her assets and to distribute her estate, which was valued at…
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Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
The Supreme Court appeared open on Wednesday to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter…
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of…
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House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and…
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Harvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent
There are proposals from Republicans in Congress to increase the tax on large endowments, potentially to 14 percent, much higher than the…
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Republicans Debate Higher Taxes on the Rich
As Republicans prepare to cut trillions of dollars in taxes, they are grasping for ways to keep down costs. There are the typical…
Business
He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.
Last March, when Rob Bresnahan, Jr., a wealthy Republican business executive, was running to represent a competitive House district in…
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China
The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the…
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Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated…
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In Trump’s Fight With Perkins Coie, the Richest Firms Are Staying Quiet
They are among the nation’s richest law firms, and they employ some of the most loquacious litigators. But with their industry under…
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They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the Trump White House.
The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has…
Business
Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok
The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the…
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TikTok Ads Portray App as Force for Good as US Ban Looms
In an emotional advertisement running on Facebook and Instagram over the past month, a young woman, Katie, talks about being diagnosed…
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U.S. Infrastructure Improves, but Cuts May Imperil Progress, Report Says
Increased federal spending in recent years has helped to improve U.S. ports, roads, parks, public transit and levees, according to a…
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Trump, Big Law, and an “Existential Crisis”
The president’s clash with some of the nation’s biggest law firms appears to be far from over, potentially splintering the legal community…
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How an Autopen Conspiracy Theory About Biden Went Viral
Mike Howell was looking at his phone in an airport lounge this month when he saw a letter from the attorney general of Missouri…
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Trump Labor Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer Faces Pressure at Senate Hearing
President Trump’s pick as labor secretary faced pointed questions from both parties at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday over…
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Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.
Since their party swept to power, Republicans have entertained visions of an all-inclusive tax cut — one that could permanently lower…
Business
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
A Senate committee is investigating whether a prominent cryptocurrency investor violated federal tax law to save hundreds of millions of…
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JD Vance Is in Charge of Getting a TikTok Deal. Can He Find a Buyer?
Last week, an aide for Vice President JD Vance reached out to the billionaire Frank McCourt. The topic at hand was Mr. McCourt’s $20…
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Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor and Orders Her to Stop Sending Abortion Pills to Texas
In a case that could have major implications for abortion access in the United States, a Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor…