Lawmakers on Tuesday announced a bipartisan agreement to reinstate major expired tax provisions, including an expansion of the child tax credit and a renewal of business investment deductions. Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) worked together in crafting the agreement, which Smith said would amount to […]
An ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her financial disclosures is under review by the Committee on Financial Disclosures in the Judicial Conference. The complaint alleged that Jackson “willfully failed to disclose” her husband’s malpractice consulting income in disclosures for more than a decade. It was filed last month by […]
DES MOINES, Iowa – Donald Trump Jr. raised concerns about consultants and donors working for opponents challenging his father for the GOP nomination, dragging out the primary instead of consolidating support and focusing efforts to beat President Joe Biden. “They are going to try to drag out that game, the consultants that are making a […]
The Iowa caucuses have wrapped up for the night, with former President Donald Trump defeating his candidates by wide margins and potentially turning the wider contest into a procession. Several news outlets called the race in favor of Trump shortly after the caucuses began, marking a significant win for the former president in the first-in-the-nation […]
Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the penalty phase of a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Jurors in Manhattan will be asked to decide how much money Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, will have to pay former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she accused him of […]
The second round of January Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for top earners who retire at 70, will go out to the next group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors born between the 11th and 20th of a month should receive their first payment of 2024 on Wednesday, Jan. 17. Those born on […]
Former President Donald Trump’s win in Iowa doesn’t end the 2024 Republican presidential race, but it does raise questions about whether it will ever truly begin. Trump won an absolute majority of the vote and finished first by about 30 points. He appears to have come within one vote of sweeping all 99 counties. ELECTION […]
EXCLUSIVE — A nonprofit issue advocacy group with ties to House leadership is launching a nearly $2 million ad campaign in 16 districts across the country that urges Congress to fight for stricter border security measures. The $1.8 million ad buy, set to begin airing on Friday, was placed by the American Action Network, a […]
The first Supplemental Security Income payment of 2024, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to recipients in 16 days. The payment will be released on Thursday, Feb. 1, and it marks the first check of 2024 because no payment was issued in January. Recipients were given two payments in December instead. […]
Hunter Biden has sold more than $1.5 million in artwork, thanks largely to purchases from two donors to his father, President Joe Biden, according to the first son’s former gallerist. George Berges told House investigators in closed-door testimony last week that a majority of the sales from Hunter Biden’s artwork came from these two buyers, […]
