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The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation released a report Monday detailing the effects of the GOP tax bill, ahead of a Tuesday Senate hearing on the same subject. The findings indicate that nearly 44 percent of the tax cuts for so-called pass-th...

Does climate change pose such an imminent threat to the planet that it’s okay to break the law in order to stop it? Four climate activists currently awaiting trial in Minnesota for shutting off a tar sands pipeline think so — and on Monda...

Police in Georgia arrested a handful of anti-racist and antifascist activists counterprotesting a rally of about two-dozen Nazis on Saturday, using a law written to combat the Ku Klux Klan to jail marchers who wore masks. Many such activists choose t...

Flight records obtained by Bloomberg indicate Donald Trump spent a full night in Moscow during his trip to the city for the Miss Universe competition in November 2013, contradicting the alibi he offered in response to the most salacious allegation in...

Back in February 2016, candidate Donald Trump promised not to have state dinners until the United States no longer ran a trade deficit at a campaign event in New Hampshire. Like many of his other promises, that one didn’t take long to break, as...

A federal court on Monday ruled the Trump administration could not delay implementing a rule that boosts the fines given to automakers that do not comply with federal fuel efficiency standards. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circ...

During a news briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly dodged questions about what President Trump meant when he blasted the “breeding concept” of sanctuary cities — a term that was widely interpreted as...