Nation and World
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Judges hand down what could be the last punishments for the Jan. 6 riot before pardons from Trump
Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm - WASHINGTON — The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case denounced efforts to rewrite the history of the U.S. Capitol attack Friday as sh...
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CBO projects US debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts
Jan 17, 2025 7:17 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts bein...
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The mysterious illness that plagued a presidential inauguration
Jan 17, 2025 5:55 pm - The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There...
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Biden got an Oval Office letter from Trump and may leave one in the desk himself. It’d be a first
Jan 17, 2025 5:54 pm - WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawe...
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Trump and Chinese leader Xi talk about trade, fentanyl and TikTok
Jan 17, 2025 4:29 pm - WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed trade, fentanyl and TikTok in a phone call Friday, just days before Trump heads back to ...
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US economy continues to outperform the rest of the world, IMF says
Jan 17, 2025 3:53 pm - The U.S. economy will continue to be the developed world’s best performer in 2025, easily topping Europe and Japan and giving President-elect Donald Trump a running start...
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Why are interest rates rising when the Fed has been cutting them?
Jan 17, 2025 11:59 am - NEW YORK — What’s shaking Wall Street seems so backwards. Swings in the bond market recently sent the yield on the 10-year Treasury above 4.80% and its highest level sin...
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IRS is sending out automatic stimulus payments. Who is getting them?
Jan 17, 2025 11:50 am - The IRS is distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who didn't receive their COVID stimulus payments. By the end of January, approximately 1 million taxpayers will re...
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Trump's swearing-in will move inside the Capitol Rotunda because of intense cold weather
Jan 17, 2025 11:29 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to forecasts of intense cold weather. “The weath...
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Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company
Jan 17, 2025 9:17 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holdi...