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JOE Biden is facing fresh scrutiny over his health in office as a speech slip-up from 2022 resurfaces amid his “aggressive” prostate cancer diagnosis. The former president, 82, claimed to have had cancer in a public speech three years ago sparking fears for his health. 3 Joe Biden at a news conference in 2023Credit: Getty…
The strategy is an old one for Republicans: Cut taxes for a few years, avoiding the need to account for their cost over the long term, and bet that the reductions become popular enough that Congress will later vote to continue them. The tax bill that Republicans are now putting together on Capitol Hill takes…
House Republicans released a plan late on Sunday that would cause millions of poor Americans to lose Medicaid health coverage and millions more to pay higher fees when they go to the doctor, but that stopped short of an overhaul that would make the deepest cuts to the program. The proposal, which is one piece…
The prices of strollers and car seats are skyrocketing as companies race to adjust to President Trump’s tariff policies. Federal support for a major campaign to promote safe infant sleep habits appears to have been cut. Measles outbreaks are terrifying parents of young children, even as the nation’s health secretary undermines vaccines. The Trump administration’s…
Since President Trump unleashed an on-again, off-again whiplash of global tariffs, congressional Democrats have worked to shine a spotlight on small business owners who say the tariffs and economic toil are threatening their livelihoods. In videos on social media, local news stories, Capitol Hill news conferences and hearings, Democrats have spotlighted the plight of local…
President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had long been one of the party’s final remaining redoubts of Trump skepticism. For years, the super PACs allied with House and Senate Republicans have been some of the most powerful and independent…
Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, an 81-year-old resident of Ossining, N.Y., believes the $10,000 cap should go up — but not too much. While Mr. Randers-Pehrson, a retired research scientist, said he paid $16,000 in state and local taxes last year, he does not expect to personally benefit from a higher cap. He would take the standard deduction…
President Trump has asked House Speaker Mike Johnson to include a tax hike on rich Americans in the sprawling fiscal package lawmakers are putting together, according to two people familiar with the request, reviving an idea that many Republicans have opposed. Mr. Trump wants to create a new top income bracket for people making more…
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, seen here last week at Harper College in Palatine, will run for the U.S. Senate in 2026. Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com, May 2 After eight years representing Illinois’ 8th District in the U.S. House, Schaumburg Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi is setting his sights on Congress’ upper chamber. Krishnamoorthi, 51, will run for the…
A half brother of Vice President JD Vance who is running for mayor of Cincinnati advanced on Tuesday to compete in the general election. The candidate, Cory Bowman, a Republican coffee shop owner, won a small share of the votes in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary, according to The Associated Press. He came in second to the…
