news2shortsHouse Republicans have seemingly dropped plans for a new millionaire’s tax hike to pay for other priorities in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” The Ways and Means Committee, the House’s tax-writing panel, released nearly 400 pages of legislation on Monday, setting the stage for permanently extending Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), … Read more
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Aviation Administration assembled a team of experts to “fast-track” fixes needed after equipment outages and ground stops at Newark and Atlanta Airports. Duffy also placed the blame of recent aviation troubles on the previous administration.
President Donald Trump and his allies have railed against federal judges for blocking key executive orders in his second term, accusing so-called “activist” judges of overstepping their authority and blocking him from delivering on some of his top policy priorities. Some of Trump’s most sweeping executive orders and actions have been blocked or paused by … Read more
Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’ US politics live – latest updates The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by Donald Trump’s administration has arrived in the US, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a … Read more
A senior staffer for California Rep. Sara Jacobs’ office was the victim of an armed carjacking in a popular Washington, D.C., neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. Metro Police announced on Sunday two arrests in the armed carjacking that occurred on Friday afternoon in a Harris Teeter parking lot in … Read more
NBC News Correspondents Brian Cheung and Yamiche Alcindor and NBC News Senior Policy Reporter Shannon Pettypiece explain how the economy will be impacted by the U.S. and China’s agreement to reduce tariffs temporarily. NBC News Correspondent Jacob Soboroff looks at the effect of tariffs on the Port of Long Beach.
Officials say Noah Farabaugh, 33, who was hiking with other people, died in Gold Canyon, east of Phoenix, on Sunday A 33-year-old man died while hiking in Arizona’s Gold Canyon on Sunday as temperatures reached about 100F (37.8C), officials said. Noah Farabaugh, from Arizona, was hiking with a group of five people in the Superstition … Read more
NBC News Health and Medical Reporter Berkely Lovelace Jr. explains President Trump’s executive order on the 30 day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription medications.
NBC News Senior National Security Correspondent Courtney Kube discusses the security implications of President Trump potentially using a jet gifted by the Qataris. NBC News Foreign Affairs Analyst Dennis Ross lays out the backdrop of President Trump’s first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia.
American officials welcomed a group of 59 Afrikaners, who are from the white ethnic minority who ruled South Africa during apartheid, to the U.S. as refugees.
