President Biden plans to unveil on Wednesday a series of new protections for the U.S. steel industry, as he moves to combat what the White House calls “unfair” Chinese competition and shore up his political fortunes in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. In remarks scheduled for the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh, the president will call for more ...
PHOENIX — A Republican state legislator proclaimed on the floor of the Arizona Senate two months ago that “abortion is the ending of an innocent human life.” Another includes a declaration on his website that he will always “fight for the unborn.” And a third championed a law to allow pregnant women to use the carpool lane, arguing that a ...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden released their jointly filed 2023 tax returns on Monday, showing a federal adjusted gross income of $619,976 on which they paid $146,629 in federal income tax, an effective rate of 23.7 percent. The White House announced the returns on the April 15 U.S. tax filing deadline, saying in a news release that “the ...
After months of inaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled on Monday evening an outline of his plan to address the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, defying Republicans who threatened to oust him from the speakership if he moved forward with funding for Ukraine. But Johnson (R-La.) risks appeasing no one with a convoluted plan to placate his critics ...
NEW YORK — The opening day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial delved deep into his tabloid fodder sex life, as lawyers and the judge debated how many salacious details jurors should eventually hear as they decide whether he broke the law to cover up hush money payments. The historic first trial of a former U.S. president began Monday in a ...
Donald Trump has spent a good part of his public life crafting an alternate reality. Just two days after Trump took office in 2017, adviser Kellyanne Conway set the tone by citing how Trump’s White House had “alternative facts” about the inauguration crowd size — claims that were provable falsehoods. Trump went on to put forth more than 30,000 additional ...
NEW YORK — More than a year after he was criminally charged in his former home city, Donald Trump came face-to-face Monday with some of the New Yorkers who could decide his fate. To protect their anonymity, however, the 96 prospective jurors brought into a 15th-floor courtroom at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Monday were referred to only by their ...
Iran’s recent attack on Israel has complicated President Biden’s efforts to change Israel’s course in Gaza and introduced a new, unpredictable element into his push to prevent the Israel-Gaza war from escalating into a broader conflict. Just days ago, Biden told Israel the U.S. would rethink its Gaza policy if Israel did not immediately address the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in ...
Distilled, the value proposition of buying public shares of the parent company of Truth Social is: Donald Trump will make you money. This is not an unusual value proposition for a stock, certainly; they are all predicated on someone making you money. In this case, though, the proposition is unusually centered in the moneymaking skills of one person, more so ...
President Biden’s aides are preparing to hit Iran with economic sanctions over Tehran’s attack on Israel, but experts say they face limited meaningful options for doing so without antagonizing China or risking a spike in the price of oil. In retaliation for a strike against its consulate, Iran over the weekend sent more than 300 drones and missiles toward Israel. ...