Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) to restore the 100 percent tax deduction for gambling losses after it was cut down to 90 percent in President Trump’s massive tax and spending package that became law last week. Cortez Masto attempted to restore the full deduction via unanimous consent…
President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. “The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday heaped criticism on President Trump’s move to issue a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian goods, in part to protest the legal proceedings against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a top Trump ally. Paul, a foremost Republican critic against Trump’s tariff policy, said the latest tariff, which Trump said would…
Nick Adams, a 40-year-old Australian native and self-described “alpha male” who has been a staunch Trump supporter for years, has been nominated by President Trump as the next ambassador to Malaysia.
The Obamas are teaming up with Larry David to produce a six-episode sketch comedy series on HBO to mark the country’s 250th anniversary, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced Thursday. The untitled limited series will focus on American history and will be executive produced by David, Jeff Schaffer and Higher Ground, the media company founded…
The number of local journalists per capita in the United States has declined by about 75 percent on average since 2002, according to a report by the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack, an aggregator of journalism bylines. That includes more than 1,000 counties — about 1 in 3 — that do not have…
Israel has concluded that some of Iran’s enriched uranium survived the U.S.’s recent strikes on the country, The New York Times reported. A senior Israeli official told the Times that the country found American and Israeli attacks did not destroy a portion of an Iranian underground stockpile of enriched uranium, with Iranian nuclear engineers still…
The United Nations (UN) is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday. The spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said during a Thursday briefing that the Trump administration’s move to slap sanctions on Albanese, who…
White House budget chief Russell Vought on Thursday accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of mismanaging the central bank’s budget during renovations, adding to President Trump’s criticism of Powell. Vought, in a letter to Powell, said Trump is “extremely troubled” that he has “plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul” of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington,…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Thursday slammed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for being disliked among Washington’s political elite. “I know people who have worked with them closely, and maybe talk to people closely, those people will tell you that they’re about as popular as male pattern baldness,” Kennedy…
