First, there were trackers on Taylor Swift and other celebrities’ private jet usage. Now, there will be more scrutiny on executives’ personal use of business aircraft who write it off as a tax expense. IRS leadership said Wednesday that the agency will start conducting dozens of audits on businesses’ private jets and how they are used personally […]Read More
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to cut emissions from power plants and factories to reduce pollution that blows into neighboring states — a federal initiative that environmentalists have said is necessary to protect people, especially children and the elderly, from lung-damaging smog. Those challenging the effort include three […]Read More
Faced with a surge of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019, Donald Trump’s White House discussed ways to more aggressively deploy the resources and the might of the U.S. military. Aides and officials spoke privately about detaining migrants on military bases and flying them out of the country on military planes […]Read More
On a day when Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential race regardless of the outcome in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, the 2024 presidential campaigns and their allied committees filed reports to the Federal Election Commission showing what they raised through the end of January. Donald Trump’s campaign and the leadership PAC that […]Read More
A 2018 Cadillac ATS-V Sedan once leased by President Joe Biden has gone up for auction. The car was built as a “one-of-one specification” for Biden while he was out of office after serving as vice president under President Barack Obama. Namely, the car features tinted windows and a Kona Brown interior that is not […]Read More
Capital One’s $35.3 billion deal to buy Discover is a long way from being completed. But consumer advocates and some lawmakers are already raising questions about how the proposed merger could affect credit-card users — many of whom are already under pressure from high interest rates and record debts. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a longtime […]Read More
The Supreme Court will not review a challenge to the admissions system for a prestigious Northern Virginia magnet school, ending a years-long legal battle in the case and signaling a majority of justices may not be ready to quickly revisit the issue of what role race can play in the selection of a student body. […]Read More
Politicians are unquestionably risk-averse. Throughout their careers, they learn certain lessons about electoral politics that are hard to unlearn. This is enormously useful to campaign consultants who can sell candidates on pricey, not-terribly-useful plans of action if similar plans of action have gotten their clients elected in the past. What unwashed socks are to an […]Read More
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies in 11 countries announced Tuesday that it had taken control of computers and software at the heart of the world’s most prolific ransomware group, giving victims hope that they won’t be forced to make ransom payments to recover data stolen from their computer systems. The infrastructure seized from […]Read More
Donald Trump and some of his allies continue to compare his legal problems to the plight of Alexei Navalny, while the former president has yet to condemn the Friday death of the imprisoned Russian dissident who was President Vladimir Putin’s strongest critic. In the four days since Navalny’s death, the Republican presidential front-runner has commented […]Read More