Friday, December 19, 2025

America’s billionaires: Borrowing their way to ever more fabulous fortunes

Their current combined fortune: $4.7 trillion, up $1.8 trillion since the pandemic began.

Barrett’s views on climate crisis worry and appalls environmentalists as her confirmation hearings continue

“If you’re neutral on climate change, you're complicit in the collapse of the planetary ecosystem upon which the survival of every living thing depends.”

After budget cuts, the IRS’ work against tax cheats is facing ‘collapse’

Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency’s budget and management changed priorities.
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Project 2025: The MAGA plan to take your freedom

The country, it would turn America into would be hard for any of us to recognize.

Judge sends Paul Manafort to jail – first Trump campaign official to be sentenced...

“There is a history of deception on behalf of Mr. Manafort in this case."

‘People should take him very seriously’: Sanders polling surge reportedly forcing democratic establishment to...

“He has a very good shot of winning Iowa, a very good shot of winning New Hampshire, and other than Joe Biden, the best shot of winning Nevada,” said one former Obama adviser.

How to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon

A CBO report requested by Bernie Sanders lays out three options for a modest Pentagon trim over the next decade. Can we pull it off?
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Watch What Happens When Trump Calls Sanders a Communist

Donald Trump calls Bernie Sanders a communist while campaigning in Iowa City.

Eric Trump: Wages Stagnated For 15 Years Because Of Syrian Refugees

That’s not how time works. Or economics.

VIDEO: Special Broadcast from Opening of Cuban Embassy in Washington as US-Cuban Diplomatic Ties...

U.S. and Cuban lawmakers and diplomats, activists and artists, scholars and historians all gathered in Washington D.C. as Cuba officially reopened its U.S. Embassy after 54 years. History has been made!