Politicians often bet big on promising tax cuts to get elected. President Biden is letting it ride on tax increases. He has called for Congress to kill Trump-era tax cuts — “If I’m reelected, it’s going to stay expired,” he said — and he has announced plans to impose a spate of new levies. They […]
A federal judge on the court overseeing the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot trials has expressed frustration with the slow appeal process as the Supreme Court is considering one of the charges against the rioters. “It’s been three years, we have hundreds of cases pending and we still don’t have any clear law,” said Judge […]
House Democrats from Florida bashed the state’s six-week abortion ban as “draconian” as one of the strictest limits in the country went into effect Wednesday. Reps. Frederica Wilson, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Lois Frankel, Kathy Casto, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Darren Soto, Maxwell Frost and Jared Moskowitz joined together to issue a statement bashing Florida’s new abortion law. “Today […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s electoral commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony on Wednesday, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing presidential candidates. Subianto, who is currently defense minister, won the election with 58.6% of the votes, or more than 96 million ballots, more than […]
Same song, different verse. American journalist Evan Gershkovich is sitting in a Russian prison cell on charges of espionage. Evan’s appeal was rejected today in a Russian court. That’s the bad news. The good news, if we can believe it is true, is that Russian officials claim that confidential discussions are being conducted about prisoner […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention. The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was detained in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent over […]
President Biden opened a three-day campaigning swing through Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and corporations. He said working-class Americans benefit when the wealthy put more cash in Uncle Sam’s coffers. “A fair tax code is how we invest in things that make this country strong,” he said in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “Health […]
NEW YORK — Days after former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond to block New York state from imminently collecting on a huge civil fraud judgment, state lawyers Thursday called for more information on the bond’s bona fides. State Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed papers giving Trump’s lawyers or the bond underwriter […]
Jussie Smollett is back in the news after the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal of his conviction on charges relating to faking a hate crime in 2019. Soros-backed State’s Attorney Kim Foxx originally dropped all charges against Smollett after a Chicago police investigation revealed that Smollett […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court will hear an appeal of actor Jussie Smollett‘s disorderly conduct conviction for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019, then lying to Chicago police about it. The court on Wednesday accepted the appeal from Smollett, formerly a cast member of the television drama “Empire.” It […]
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