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Updated May 12, 2025 - Business

"Big, beautiful" tax bill contains popular break for tips

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Updated May 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump administration welcomed white Afrikaners while ending Afghan protections

The first group of Afrikaners from South Africa to arrive for resettlement listen to remarks from US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (R) and US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar (not in frame), after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virgi

Trump's executive order to lower drug prices may not do much of that

U.S. President Donald Trump (L), accompanied by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary (2nd-L), and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (C), speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 12.

Harvard decries Trump administration's "unlawful attempts" to control school

A photo of the Harvard campus.

New SEC chair intends to write rules for crypto

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Paul Atkins.

Trump says it would be "stupid" not to accept free jet from Qatar

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on May 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his four-day Middle East visit and the first international trip of his second term. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump signs order aimed at cutting drug prices by up to 80%

 President Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May, 7.
May 12, 2025 - World

Hamas releases Edan Alexander, last living American hostage in Gaza

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Updated May 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump says European Union is "nastier than China"

Trump stands at a lectern flanked by four men
May 12, 2025 - Economy

Who benefits from tax legislation so far

Behind the Curtain: Hard truths on taxes
Updated May 12, 2025 - Economy

U.S., China slash tariffs for 90 days in trade deal

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent address reporters in Geneva.

Trump's trillion-dollar trip

Trump signing

MAHA's messy marriage

Illustration of the two snakes around a caduceus hissing.

Backstory: How Trump got a free "palace in the sky"

A 13-year-old private Boeing aircraft that President Donald Trump toured on Saturday to check out new hardware and technology features and highlight the aircraft maker's delay in delivering updated versions of the Air Force One presidential aircraft, takes off from Palm Beach International Airport,

Trump's tough choices: Endorse key senators or please MAGA

Illustration of a wooden rubber stamp wearing a red tie

Trump administration fires top U.S. copyright official

President Trump during a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8.
May 12, 2025 - Business

Memorial Day travel forecast to break 20-year-old record despite economic gloom

Updated May 11, 2025 - Health

What to know about screwworm as U.S. suspends Mexican cattle imports

Left; Tusk-like mandibles protruding from the New World screwworm larva's mouth; right, cattle are detained in the pens of the Chihuahua Regional Livestock Union , at the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on November 27.
Updated May 11, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Scoop: Dem seeks probe into reports Qatar plans to gift plane to Trump

An illustration of Air Force One, with Donald Trump's signature in the place of the trails from the plane
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