3 h. ago Why is Trump considering raising taxes on millionaires? | Alex Bronzini

Tax-cutting once unified the Republicans. Now, that sacred cow might get killed“I actually love the concept,” Donald Trump recently told Time magazine of a proposal circulating within his cabinet to raise taxes upon those earning over $1m. “I don’t want it to be used against me politically, because I’ve seen people lose elections for less, especially with the fake news.”Few presidential administrations have killed sacred cows at a faster rate than that of Donald Trump. But this really is shocking: a sitting Republican president praising a proposal to raise taxes upon the wealthy, adding only the slight caveat that it would be adversely spun by those in “the fake news”. A tax increase, Trump apparently believes, would be tenable as policy but not as politics.Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York Continue reading...

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15 h. ago No one believed Trump hotel shooter Jonathan Oddi's bizarre Diddy claims... until now

No one believed Jonathan Oddi when he bizarrely told Florida cops he that was Sean ' Diddy ' Combs' sex slave in 2018.

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18 h. ago Harvard’s biggest donors have mixed feelings about the college’s standoff with Trump

Donors call Trump’s demands ‘overreaching and excessive’ even as they believe the college needs to take steps to address campus antisemitism

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24 h. ago Trump hotel shooter's extraordinary links to Diddy that PROVE viral conspiracy theory

A Florida man who claimed he was Diddy's 'sex slave' signed a settlement with the disgraced Bad Boy rapper in 2014, linking the two men together.

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5 d. ago Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker

Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real worldIt’s tempting to believe that tech billionaires’ embrace of Donald Trump and the far right is a sudden rupture with the usual political ideology of Silicon Valley. Op-eds in the New York Times and elsewhere have made this case. Even Marc Andreessen, one of the billionaires in question, claims that this is what happened – he said that it was a change in the Democratic arty that pushed him and his fellow oligarchs into the arms of the GOP.Yet this is a serious misunderstanding of the situation. There wasn’t a sudden shift in the politics of tech – it was a homecoming. While it’s true that Silicon Valley has long supported Democratic candidates for political office – and that rank-and-file tech workers still vote overwhelmingly for Democrats – the fundamental ideology underpinning the culture of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists and CEOs has always had a far-right li...

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6 d. ago ‘Armed agents nearly turned up at my house’: fired DOJ attorney on defying Trump – podcast

The US justice department says it did not fire a former pardon attorney, Liz Oyer, after she refused to recommend reinstating Mel Gibson’s gun rights.But Oyer tells Jonathan Freedland a different story, one she believes points to a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on the rule of law in AmericaArchive: ABC News, Face the Nation, CBS News, CNN, PBS, NBC News, Fox News, WHAS11 Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Most Americans believe Trump’s threats over Canada, deporting citizens and a third term but don’t approve, poll finds

Even many Republicans oppose some of the president’s signature policies

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8 d. ago Denied, detained, deported: the people targeted in Trump’s immigration crackdown

These are some of the people ensnared by the administration’s unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agendaDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting people requesting asylum and refugees while conducting raids and deportations in undocumented communities, detaining and deporting immigrants and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multipronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This extraordinary assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The FBI’s arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration is making an example of the Milwaukee judge to intimidate critics and opponentsOn Friday, the Trump administration dramatically escalated its assault on the courts when the FBI arrested Hannah Dugan, a county circuit court judge handling misdemeanors in Milwaukee – allegedly for helping an undocumented man avoid abduction by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents outside her courtroom. The arrest, a highly publicized and dramatic move from the Trump administration, seemed designed to elicit fear among judges, government bureaucrats and ordinary Americans that any effort to slow, impede or merely not facilitate the administration’s mass kidnapping and deportation efforts will lead to swift, forceful and disproportionate punishment by Donald Trump allies. Her arrest may be the opening salvo of a broader Trump assault on judges.Even if you believe the FBI’s allegations, their account of Dugan’s alleged misconduct is trivial and flimsy, wholly undeserv...

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9 d. ago ‘No safe seat’: could Democrats make Florida a swing state again?

Democratic candidates cutting in to GOP leads in local elections and protests against Trump provide faint pathUS politics live – latest updatesDemocrats in Florida believe that strong performances in two congressional races this month have erected signposts towards restoring its status as a crucial swing state.It might appear a lofty conviction given no Democratic candidate has won a statewide election since 2018, and any remaining notion of Florida being purple was dispelled by Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris by more than 13 percentage points in November. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

Trump scores poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focussed on wrong issuesAmericans, including some Republicans, are losing faith in Donald Trump across a range of key issues, according to polling released this week. One survey found a majority describing the president’s second stint in the White House so far as “scary”.Along with poor ratings on the economy and Trump’s immigration policy, a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe Trump has focussed on the right priorities as president. Continue reading...

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1 week ago In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk

At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending itWar teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the “peace talks” in London, which the US secretary of state Marco Rubio didn’t even turn up for, Ukrainians were not anxiously waiting for the results of a possible deal, which looked unfeasible anyway. Instead, they were counting their dead.According to Ukraine’s air force, in the early hours of Thursday morning Russia launched 11 Iskander ballistic missiles, 37 KH-101 cruise missiles, six Iskander-K cruise missiles, 12 Kalibr cruise missiles, 4 KH-59/KH-69 missiles and 145 drones. For Kyiv and Kharkiv residents that night, this was not just a case of reading numbers on a news feed, but hearing and feeling explosions rock their cities. It turned out to be the deadliest night for the Ukrainian capital this year.Nataliya Gumenyuk is a ...

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1 week ago The rule of law in Trump’s America and what it means for Mel Gibson’s guns – podcast

The US justice department says it did not fire a former pardon attorney, Liz Oyer, after she refused to recommend reinstating Mel Gibson’s gun rights.But Oyer tells Jonathan Freedland a different story, one she believes points to a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on the rule of law in AmericaArchive: ABC News, Face the Nation, CBS News, CNN, PBS, NBC News, Fox News, WHAS11 Continue reading...

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1 week ago Only 15 percent of young people believe U.S. is on right track under Trump, poll finds

‘These findings are a stark reality check, and leaders across the country would be wise to pay close attention,’ director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard says

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2 w. ago Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

Senator warns of US getting ‘closer to a constitutional crisis’ as Samuel Alito’s dissent signals deference to TrumpMinnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.“I believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,” Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding “but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine war live: Trump denies being ‘played’ by Putin as Russia launches overnight attack

Ukraine says five regions damaged overnight after wave of drone and missile attacks by RussiaAnalysis: Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon peace talksDonald Trump has said the US will “take a pass” on a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine if “parties make it difficult”. The US president made the comments to reporters during the swearing-in ceremony for Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Trump added that he believed there was a “good chance” of “solving the problem”. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had earlier said the US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Majority believes the wealthy and large corporations will benefit the most from Trump’s tariff plan

Americans’ view of tariff outcomes mirror opinion of 2017 Republican tax cuts set to be extended by Congress this year

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3 w. ago Nigel Farage compares Donald Trump to Liz Truss and won't say if he's 'chump or champ' on tariffs trade war

The Reform UK leader believes both Trump and Truss did ‘too much too soon’

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4 w. ago Donald Trump will learn 'China will not blink' in fighting 'total war' against global tariffs

Experts believe that Donald Trump's decision could lead to a global recession unless the "deals" he's so keen to make are arranged quickly, after the stock market went into freefall following him slapping tariffs on every country in the world

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last month Bombshell poll shows what Brits now think of US after Donald Trump's tariff chaos

Eye-opening data shows 15% of UK voters now view the US as an enemy, while just 43% believe Washington is an ally as alarm grows over Donald Trump's swingeing tariffs

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