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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001% — We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations. — Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based …
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Your Tax Return Is Confidential... Until It Isn't
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Rich Americans Like Bezos, Musk, Buffett Avoided Income Tax
Rich Americans Like Bezos, Musk, Buffett Avoided Income Tax
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White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts strategy — The negotiations had stalled amid major disagreements over the size of any package and how to pay for it. — President Biden and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.a) …
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Democrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors — The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On the one hand, one can read in the mainstream press that “more than 100 scholars of democracy have signed …
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Biden's infrastructure talks with GOP collapse amid irreconcilable differences … WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's infrastructure talks with Republicans collapsed on Tuesday, the lead GOP negotiator said. — “I spoke with the president this afternoon, and he ended our infrastructure negotiations …
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Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Negotiations with Congress
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Biden ends infrastructure talks with Senate GOP, starts engaging bipartisan group
Biden ends infrastructure talks with Senate GOP, starts engaging bipartisan group
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Biden seeks new coalition for infrastructure bill as talks with key GOP senators fall apart
Biden seeks new coalition for infrastructure bill as talks with key GOP senators fall apart
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden ends infrastructure talks with key Republican
Biden ends infrastructure talks with key Republican
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Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds — The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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A damning Senate report on Jan. 6 shows what Republicans want to keep buried — It's sometimes said that history is written by the victors, but if Republicans get their way, the history of the Jan. 6 insurrection will be written largely by the perpetrators and the enablers.
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Senate GOP blocks bill to combat gender pay gap
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‘Does Anybody Have a Plan?’ Senate Report Details Jan. 6 Security Failures.
‘Does Anybody Have a Plan?’ Senate Report Details Jan. 6 Security Failures.
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Senate approves sprawling $250 billion bill to curtail China's economic and military ambitions — The bill, adopted on a bipartisan vote, invests heavily in U.S. science and technology while threatening a host of punishments against Beijing — The Senate voted on Tuesday to adopt …
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Senate Approves $250 Billion Bill to Boost Tech Research — Measure heads to House after passing 68-32 in Senate — WASHINGTON—The Senate on Tuesday approved a bipartisan, $250 billion bill boosting government spending on technology research and development amid rising competition from China and other nations.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden addressed his white lawyer as ‘n***a’ multiple times, used phrases like ‘true dat n***a’ and bantered 'I only love you because you're black,' in shocking texts unearthed days after Joe's emotional Tulsa speech decrying racism — Text messages obtained …
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Hunter Biden repeatedly called his white lawyer the N-word, texts show
Hunter Biden repeatedly called his white lawyer the N-word, texts show
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Sidney Powell Just ‘Eviscerated’ Her Own Legal Defense, Experts Say — “That seems like an extremely damaging admission from Ms. Powell,” a top lawyer says. — Sidney Powell lost the plot. — To protect herself from a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, the Trumpist lawyer was supposed …
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Pretending that what's happening isn't happening — I want to highlight a comment DamnYankeesLGM made in Scott's post about Merrick Garland's decision to have the DOJ continue to substitute the United States for Donald Trump as the defendant in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit.
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Exclusive: Corey Johnson leads an unsettled race for city comptroller, NY1/Ipsos poll finds — NEW YORK — City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has expanded his lead in the Democratic primary for city comptroller, but a huge share of primary voters have yet to make up their minds about the race …
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Joe Manchin is opposing big parts of Biden's agenda as the Koch network pressures him — The Koch network has been pressuring Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to oppose key parts of the Democratic agenda, including filibuster reform and voting rights legislation. — That lobbying effort appears to be paying off.
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FBI-controlled Anom app ensnares scores of alleged criminals in global police sting — SYDNEY — The alleged drug syndicates, contract killers and weapons dealers thought they were using high-priced, securely encrypted phones that would protect them as they openly discussed drug deals …
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Global sting: Secure FBI-run messaging network tricks crooks
Global sting: Secure FBI-run messaging network tricks crooks
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Alyssa Milano says she could ‘potentially run’ for House in 2024 — Actor-turned-activist Alyssa Milano may seek to transition from Hollywood to the House, saying she's “considering” a congressional run in 2024. — “I'm looking at California's 4th District to potentially run against …
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The White House press corps's most useless reporter strikes again — Subservience. — 6 hr ago … For a brief moment this weekend, after conducting an embarrassingly sycophantic interview with White House press secretary Jen Psaki, CNN's Brian Stelter became the poster child for all that is wrong with legacy media.
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A Ranked Choice Cheat Sheet We asked New Yorkers about their ranked-choice-voting strategies. — Picking who to vote for in an election with a crowded field, numerous scandals, and New York City's recovery at stake is already a difficult task — but picking five candidates?
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Rebekah Jones' Twitter account suspended, citing ‘platform manipulation,’ ‘spam’ — Rebekah Jones, who formerly maintained Florida's COVID-19 dashboard but was fired last year as she raised concerns about transparency, was suspended Monday from Twitter for “platform manipulation and spam.”
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Florida Covid whistle-blower Rebekah Jones hopes to unseat scandal-scarred Rep. Matt Gaetz
Florida Covid whistle-blower Rebekah Jones hopes to unseat scandal-scarred Rep. Matt Gaetz
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How America Fractured Into Four Parts — Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness.
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New Democratic focus groups find many voters aren't sure what the party stands for — WASHINGTON — New focus groups conducted by a prominent Democratic pollster warn that many voters “have trouble describing a clear positive vision of what the Democratic Party stands for.”
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Burning the midnight oil: Eric Adams' mysterious whereabouts off the campaign trail — Eric Adams announced he was living in Brooklyn Borough Hall to combat Covid last March. Now it seems he may have never left. — The mayoral hopeful has been staying overnight and keeping late-night …
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James Murdoch spent $100 million to help fund political causes during 2020 election cycle — James Murdoch, the son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, quietly invested $100 million into his nonprofit foundation, which then used a chunk of the money to fund political groups during the 2020 election cycle.
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Trump Impeachment Lawyers Are Now Representing Capitol Riot Defendants — Attorneys Michael van der Veen and Bruce Castor defended former President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. — Even as van der Veen …
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Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates — Even those who aren't woke seem damaged by the experience, and they're deprived of role models. — I'm not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America's elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I relished the opportunity …
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NBC's Lester Holt Grills Kamala Harris on Migrant Crisis: 'You Haven't Been to the Border' — The veep attempted to wave off Holt's question with a laugh, noting that she also hasn't been to Europe lately. — NBC anchor Lester Holt pressed Vice President Kamala Harris on why she has yet …
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The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott — By limiting discussion of the infamous Supreme Court decision, law-school professors risk minimizing the role of racism in American history. — In January, 2011, the House of Representatives undertook a recitation of the United States Constitution on the House floor.
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Record-High 70% in U.S. Support Same-Sex Marriage — WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. support for legal same-sex marriage continues to trend upward, now at 70% — a new high in Gallup's trend since 1996. This latest figure marks an increase of 10 percentage points since 2015 …
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‘Free Gaza’ Warsaw Ghetto vandaliser ‘supporting’ union antisemitism sessions — EXCLUSIVE: Ewa Jasiewicz, who caused outrage in 2010 by daubing graffiti on the walls of the former ghetto, is assisting with sessions for members of the National Education Union.