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‘Pay your fair share,’ says president. ‘Imagine what we can do. Imagine a future with affordable child care, home care, elder care, and paid leave.’ Read More.

Jury selection could take up to two weeks, or around a quarter of the trial which is set to begin on April 15. Read More.

“Nebraska, a bright red state where Republicans outnumber Democrats two-to-one, has it within its power to join 48 other states and to take this path off the chessboard for the Democrats,” Kirk said. Read More.

Joe Biden apparently forgot he was president earlier this week while once again pretending to care about the border crisis for a couple of minutes. Read More.

New rule is seen as step toward the Biden Administration’s goal of universal background checks. Read More.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has opened an investigation into the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month. The bridge collapsed after the main supports were struck by the container ship Dali, causing the bridge to fall into the Patapsco River on March 26. “The FBI is present aboard the […] Read More.

“This is really an attack on a political opponent, that’s all it is.” Read More.

The former GOP presidential candidate, who was UN ambassador under President Trump, will focus on American leadership at the foreign policy-oriented think tank. Read More.

LOS ANGELES—NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch–retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, U.S. space agency officials said on Monday. A formal request for proposals will go out Tuesday to various NASA centers and […] Read More.

The high court will hear whether obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants should stick in a determination that could impact Trump’s federal election case. Read More.

Karine Jean-Pierre did everything she could to sidestep a question about whether or not Joe Biden would debate Donald Trump.  Read More.

All eyes around the world have turned to Brazil in a battle worthy of a movie, with Elon Musk as the hero and Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes as the villain Read More.

United Airlines is blaming troubled plane maker Boeing for a $200 million hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year after a midair blowout led to the grounding of many of its Max 9 planes. In its first-quarter 2024 financial results published on April 16, the company said it had a pretax […] Read More.

“We have brought the public sector together and now we must prevail on the humanity and generosity of the private sector,” Karen Bass said. Read More.

The IMF has warned that fiscal policy tends to be looser in election years, when governments seek to boost electorate support by announcing tax cuts. Read More.