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Commentary: Back from the brink: Trump's economy soars instead of crashing
Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This projection was so oft repeated in the media that many Americans, especially Democrats, believed a depression was imminent. Yet the economy is thoroughly beating expectations, with consumers’ expectations becoming ...Read more

Why Donald Trump's legal strategies are working -- some of the time
When President Donald Trump decided last month to send the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, many political and legal watchers were certain that courts would view the move as illegal, a belief that was quickly shattered when a panel of appellate judges appointed by presidents from both political ...Read more

N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis tells CNN he warned Trump that 'big beautiful bill' could be 'his Obamacare'
Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told President Donald Trump that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could become his “Obamacare.”
The remark, made to CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday night, is a striking comment with the midterm elections looming over Republicans.
CNN’s broadcast marked Tillis...Read more

Brazil assets plunge after Trump hikes tariff rate to 50%
President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods sent the country’s currency plunging as the U.S. leader sharply escalated a dispute with Latin America’s largest nation and leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In a letter posted to his social media account, Trump cited Jair Bolsonaro — the right-wing former ...Read more

Trump praises leader of English-speaking African nation for his 'good English'
President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking English articulately, seemingly unaware of the fact that English is Liberia’s national language.
“Such good English, that’s beautiful,” Trump said during a Wednesday meeting at the White House with five African leaders. “Where did you learn to speak so ...Read more

Former Rep. Stephanie Murphy announces bid for local office in Florida
WASHINGTON — Former Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, once a leader of centrist Democrats in the House, announced Wednesday that she is running for mayor of Orange County, home to Orlando.
“You may know me as your former congresswoman,” Murphy says in a video announcing her campaign. “Before I ever stepped foot in Washington, I worked in ...Read more

Biden doctor pleads the 5th on GOP House panel questions about fitness
Former President Joe Biden’s personal physician Wednesday refused to answer a Republican congressional committee’s questions about his health and fitness to serve, citing doctor-patient confidentiality.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor also invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions during a House Oversight Committee ...Read more

With 'big' bill in rearview, Trump doesn't have a new to-do list for Congress
President Donald Trump will not be presenting Congress with a new to-do list anytime soon as Senate and House Republicans turn to other pressing matters after narrowly approving most of the president’s second-term priorities.
As the ink dried on the GOP-crafted and -passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” that Trump signed into law on July ...Read more

Trump hikes Brazil tariff rate to 50%, sending assets reeling
Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods sent the country’s currency plunging as the U.S. leader sharply escalated a dispute with Latin America’s largest nation and leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In a letter posted to his social media account, Trump said he was making the change “due in part to Brazil�...Read more
Election interference conviction of pro-Trump Twitter troll Douglass Mackey overturned
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of pro-Trump-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ads telling Hillary Clinton supporters they could vote in the 2016 election by text message.
Mackey was convicted in March 2023 of election interference, after a Brooklyn Federal Court found, after five ...Read more

Trump administration subpoenas Harvard for 'foreign student information'
The Department of Homeland Security announced it has subpoenaed Harvard for “foreign student information” Wednesday, the latest escalation in a long back and forth between the university and Trump administration.
“If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will,” the Department of Homeland Security and DHS ...Read more

Atlanta police cite youth programs for decrease in youth gun violence
ATLANTA — Crime and gun violence among young people in the metro Atlanta area are decreasing, and law enforcement officials say it’s not the boys in blue on patrol but rather city-run youth programs that are shifting the trend for kids.
Recent headlines about shootings in metro Atlanta involving young victims have raised alarm about gun ...Read more

House panel wants anti-drone systems at US defense facilities
WASHINGTON — The draft defense authorization bill that the House Armed Services Committee plans to mark up in the coming days would require the Pentagon to set up counter-drone defenses at a handful of military-related facilities inside the United States.
The mandate is one of several ways the measure manifests deep congressional concerns ...Read more

'It's just unfair': What end of TPS means for Nicaraguans and Hondurans in the US
Virginia Guevara came to the United States from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the 1990s, before the country was granted Temporary Protected Status following the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
Guevara, 48 at the time, found a new and better life in the U.S. by working as a kitchen helper. Now, at 78, she faces possible ...Read more

What to know about the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' cuts to Medicaid
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed the “Big, Beautiful Bill” into law Friday, triggering a countdown to cuts that will impact many Maryland residents in the coming years.
Republicans passed the legislation Thursday after Congress pulled two all-nighters to meet Trump’s self-imposed July 4 deadline. A host of provisions were ...Read more

A plan to take human rights off the table at the State Department
What a difference eight years makes. During President Trump’s first term, then-Sen. Marco Rubio pushed the president to expand his human rights diplomatic agenda. Rubio recognized that promoting human rights abroad is in the national interest. He urged the president to appoint an assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights ...Read more

Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is a $4 trillion tax charade
The One Big Beautiful Bill Republicans just jammed through Congress represents a $4 trillion fraud foisted on the American people. Even though the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, the core of the legislation, will add almost $4 trillion to the federal debt including interest, Republicans claim...Read more

Trump tariff 'blank check' must be curbed, appeals court told
A group of small businesses that won an order finding President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal urged a federal appeals court to uphold that decision and block the trade levies.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on May 28 that Trump exceeded his authority by imposing broad tariffs, a power granted to Congress in the ...Read more

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.
In an 8-1 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal judge in San Francisco who blocked mass layoffs at more than 20 departments and...Read more

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies
The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.
In an 8-1 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal judge in San Francisco who blocked mass layoffs at more than 20 departments and agencies.
The ...Read more
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