This article is part of “Unaffordable America,” a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it. How’s the economy? Not bad if you’re rich. Demand for luxury yachts and…
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WASHINGTON — On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., discussed an off-ramp with President Donald Trump to reopen TSA and end the long lines and delays at airports. It would fund all of the…
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The Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced…
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U.S. stocks surged Monday, after President Donald Trump announced that he was postponing all military strikes on Iranian power plants for a five-day period. Trump said the U.S. and Iran had engaged in what he…
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The clock that was ticking toward a dramatic new escalation in the Iran war may now be counting down to a deal that would end it. That’s the latest stunning turn of events delivered by…
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Politics
171 million travelers face airport delays as Democrats’ DHS shutdown hits TSA staffing, Scalise warns
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is hammering Democrats over the partial government shutdown as its effects begin to hit millions of travelers at airports across the country. ‘This is expected to be one of…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rolled out a new platform, backed by artificial intelligence, that will streamline publicly accessible reporting of negative or unexpected health effects linked to medicines, vaccines, cosmetics, animal food and…
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In a sharp break from his long-standing defense of the Senate filibuster, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, urged Republicans Wednesday to enact ‘whatever changes’ necessary to send a Trump-backed voter ID bill to President Donald Trump’s…
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About 60% of Texas Republicans voted last Tuesday to end John Cornyn’s career in the Senate, but it wasn’t really Cornyn they were rejecting. It was the feckless, do-nothing GOP Senate leadership that makes ‘Waiting…
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President Donald Trump took a bow Tuesday night for his 5-0 record for his endorsed candidates in the Republican elections held in Mississippi and Georgia. ‘March 10th election update: 5 wins, 0 losses,’ an election…