JUNE 13, 2021
Naftali Bennett, Israeli parliament member from the Yamina party, gives a statement at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 6, 2021. - Menahem Kahana, AP
Until recently, Naftali Bennett, the hard-charging, high-tech millionaire on the cusp of becoming Israel's prime minister, was perhaps best known for his inflammatory statements and extreme positions on the Palestinian conflict.
He has...
JUNE 11, 2021
Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Monday, June 19, 2017, in Washington.
Apple on Friday said it didn't know former President Donald Trump's Department of Justice was subpoenaed data on Democrats when it complied...
JUNE 11, 2021
Former US President Donald Trump andAttorney General Jeff Sessions at the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony in Quantico, Va. Dec. 15, 2017. - Evan Vucci, AP
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s independent watchdog on Friday announced that it was launching a broad investigation into whether the Trump administration and its two attorneys general improperly seized phone...
JUNE 11, 2021
President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gesture as they pose for a photo Friday with other G-7 leaders in Carbis Bay, England. - Patrick Semansky/AP
ST. IVES, England — The tableau on a windy Cornish beach on Friday was both odd — smiling world leaders in tailored suits standing on a makeshift platform above the blowing...
JUNE 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden and other world leaders are expected to focus on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic Friday, the first day of the G-7 meeting in Cornwall, England, while making the case for democratic institutions' unique ability to respond to economic crises and disparities, senior administration officials said.
The Group of Seven, an...
JUNE 10, 2021
Matt Muncy, of McKee, Kentucky, went from being nearly homeless to supporting his family with a good-paying job working at home, providing tech support for Apple. - Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
McKEE, Ky. – Matt and Jennifer Muncy were dangerously close to becoming homeless.
They had lost their livelihood when a local factory sent work to Mexico....
JUNE 9, 2021
U.S. Vice President Harris visits Mexico. - Reuters/CARLOS BARRIA
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that Mexico was in a completely new phase of relations with the United States, a day after a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to Mexico City.
Calling Harris an "extraordinary woman", Lopez Obrador said...
JUNE 9, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Biden on Wednesday revoked executive orders targeting the Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat apps signed by former President Donald Trump, and signed a new order requiring security reviews of these and other apps in the jurisdiction of foreign adversaries.
The new order directs the Commerce Department to instead evaluate software applications connected with foreign...
JUNE 9, 2021
This June 7, 2021 image made available by NASA shows the Jovian moon Ganymede as the Juno spacecraft flies by. “This is the closest any spacecraft has come to this mammoth moon in a generation,” said Juno's lead scientist, Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS via AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — NASA’s...
JUNE 8, 2021
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Too much of billionaires' true economic income is not getting counted on their tax returns.
We can count more capital gains as income, to make them report more income and pay more tax.
To do this, eliminate "stepped-up basis" rules and prevent double deduction of charitable giving.
ProPublica has obtained years of federal...
