Controversial billionaire tax will appear on November ballot
Proponents of a tax on California billionaires vowed on Thursday to move forward with their November ballot measure ... Read More
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King Charles' tax bombshell reveals monarch has paid more than £30million to HMRC
King Charles has become the first British monarch to disclose the size of his personal tax bill - with newly published royal accounts revealing he has voluntarily paid more than £30 million to HM Revenue Customs since ...Read more
Miami-Dade firefighters pull out of once massive wildfires as blazes near end
MIAMI — For nearly two weeks, wildfires — the first of which was spawned along Krome Avenue from a lightning strike and split into two blazes spanning over 22,000 acres — have suffocated neighborhoods in western ...Read more
Trump touts $11.1 billion aid request to woo struggling farmers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had a surprise for the farmers he invited to dinner at the White House on Thursday: a request to Congress for $11.1 billion in assistance that would amount to the second bailout of the...Read more
NYC rent freeze passes in huge win for Mamdani
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze for the city’s one million rent stabilized units on Thursday — in a major win for Mayor Mamdani.
The freeze marks the first complete fulfillment of one of Mamdani�...Read more
Chicago Public Schools officials aim to pass budget early amid $700 million deficit
CHICAGO — Amid a projected deficit of over $700 million, Chicago Public Schools officials said they aim to have the district’s budget for the upcoming school year approved by the end of July, a month earlier than last ...Read more
Administration asks OpenAI to stagger AI model release
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of an upcoming powerful artificial intelligence model, according to a person familiar with the matter, nearly two weeks after rival Anthropic PBC suspended ...Read more
Massachusetts 'not progressive' in how it taxes lower, middle-income households: study
BOSTON — Paying the bills is not a party, a new report reveals.
The Pioneer Institute says the Bay State is not as progressive as its political leadership makes it out to be when it comes to taxing lower-and middle-...Read more
At Idaho National Lab, reactor success and Trump's nuclear program celebrated
BOISE, Idaho — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday after the first new-age nuclear reactor to switch on in more than 40 years did so at INL earlier this month.
In an ...Read more
Lake Tahoe officials turn back boaters trying to skirt checks for golden mussels
Authorities have intercepted six watercraft that illegally attempted to launch on Lake Tahoe amid a campaign to keep golden mussels and other invasive species out of the iconic Sierra lake.
The boaters stopped this summer...Read more
Miami archbishop urges prayers -- and pressure -- after Supreme Court's TPS ruling
MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, local leaders and Haitian immigrants condemned a Supreme Court decision on Thursday allowing the Trump administration to end deportation protections under Temporary Protected ...Read more
Trump to pick Telecom lawyer to lead DOJ's antitrust division
WASHINGTON — The White House is poised to nominate Adam Candeub, the general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, to take over as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, according to people familiar with...Read more
Court's TPS ruling hits Haitians hard in Massachusetts, big win for Trump
The Supreme Court’s decision to end temporary legal protections for Haitians and Syrians hit the state hard, with an outcry of “you cannot turn your back on us,” but was hailed by some for capping asylum seekers.
...Read more
Haitian immigrants in NYC fear mass deportations after Supreme Court ruling
Haitians across New York City are bracing for the possibility of mass deportations in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to remove thousands of longtime New Yorkers from the country. ...Read more
Rotting meat, foul smell at site of Boyle Heights warehouse fire
LOS ANGELES —The fire may be out, but Boyle Heights is now dealing with massive amounts of rotting meat and a foul smell as the cleanup phase from a weeklong fire at a massive cold-storage warehouse begins.
Outside the ...Read more
A West Philly man was sentenced to up to 40 months in prison for seeking to make bombs in support of a terror group
PHILADELPHIA — A West Philadelphia man who was convicted last year of seeking to build bombs in support of Islamic extremist groups was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 months in prison and six years of probation.
Muhyyee...Read more
Roundup cases led to eye-popping Philly verdicts. Will that change because of the Supreme Court?
The largest verdict issued by a Philadelphia jury in recent years came out of a trial in which a man accused against agricultural giant Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup, of causing his blood cancer.
The jury awarded John ...Read more
Supreme Court TPS ruling could deepen Haiti's worsening crisis, experts say
More than half of the population struggles every day to find food. Nearly 1.5 million have been displaced by terrorizing gangs and hundreds have taken to the sea, just in the first six months of this year, only to be ...Read more
NY prosecutors dismiss rape count against Harvey Weinstein as victim says she can't handle another trial
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors moved to dismiss their rape case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after Jessica Mann — among the first women to come forward against the once-powerful Hollywood producer — said ...Read more
'Race against time': The desperate search for Venezuelan earthquake survivors
CARACAS, Venezuela — Rescue workers and civilians scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble Thursday as Venezuela struggled to recover from a pair of earthquakes that toppled scores of buildings, leaving at least 188 ...Read more
No deal: California billionaire tax heads to expensive November ballot brawl
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposed 5% tax on billionaires will appear on Californians’ ballots this November after negotiations to sideline the measure failed.
That outcome is likely to drive hundreds of millions of ...Read more
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