Nation and World Politics
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The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process
Jun 17, 2024 8:16 am - WASHINGTON — The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Dep...
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Biden's campaign announces a $50 million advertising blitz highlighting Trump's conviction
Jun 17, 2024 8:13 am - President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is spending $50 million through the end of June, a blitz that includes its first television ad trumpeting Donald Trump’s felony ...
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Putin to visit North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un, both countries say
Jun 17, 2024 7:24 am - SEOUL, South Korea — Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea for a two-day visit starting Tuesday, both countries announced, amid international concerns a...
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US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on
Jun 17, 2024 7:22 am - ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA — The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it's still fighting — d...
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre
Jun 14, 2024 9:27 am - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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U.S. Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebelsJun 14, 2024 7:56 am - ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA — The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. Bu...
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Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv calls it ‘absurd’
Jun 14, 2024 7:23 am - Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four re...
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Trump returns to Capitol Hill and whips up Republican lawmakers in first meeting since Jan. 6 attack
Jun 13, 2024 2:08 pm - WASHINGTON — Donald Trump made a triumphant return Thursday to Capitol Hill, whipping up House and Senate Republicans in his first meetings since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack...
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AP-NORC poll: About half of US adults approve of Trump's conviction, but views of him remain stable
Jun 13, 2024 10:19 am - NEW YORK — About half of U.S. adults approve of Donald Trump's recent felony conviction, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Rese...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
Jun 13, 2024 9:22 am - The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.