NBC News projects victory for the GOP in the seat formerly held by Michael Waltz, who resigned to join the Trump administration.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the political action committee he started of failing to pay a suburban Philadelphia man more than $20,000 for getting people to sign a petition in favor of free speech and gun rights. The lawsuit seeking class-action status claims the man, referred…
Booker surpassed the record of former Sen. Strom Thurmond who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 with a 24-hour and 18-minute speech.
The option of a 20% universal tariff is the only way to get to some of the massive revenues of trillions of dollars claimed by some of his advisers.
In President Donald Trump’s telling, tariffs are the political equivalent of duct tape: you can use them to fix anything. For example, they’re a negotiating tool — he used the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada and Mexico to implement border policies he liked. He also sees tariffs as a revenue source that might help offset his proposed $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and as a shield to protect American manufacturing jobs from overseas competition.With all of these potentially conflicting aims, and with another major round of tariffs expected to be announced on Wednesday, what is the strategy behind them?Rana Foroohar, a Financial Times columnist and the author of Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World, says they’re an “experiment” that could lead to a big change in the way the global economy works.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
Those who work closely with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program now fear for the program’s future.
President Trump will unveil new tariffs Wednesday, raising concerns among economists and prompting Senate Democrats to push for a vote to reverse tariffs on Canada.
“I said, ‘Are you serious? Put the knife down.’ … She told me, ‘I will kill you!’ ” Raheem Bilal claimed to The Post.
A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months.