The vast majority of benefits would go to the highest earners and largest holders of wealth, analysts said, setting up a battle over the government’s strained resources.
A president who campaigned as a fiscal scold offers a tax overhaul that many experts say would mean trillions in lost revenue, and new borrowing, in the next decade.
White House and congressional proposals would eliminate the provision, challenging tradition and bipartisan defenders in wealthy and populous states.
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White House officials portrayed the president’s reversals as a vindication of his management style, saying he had brought Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table.
The risks and rewards of starting from an extreme negotiating position. (It’s trickier in politics than it is in business.)
A whirlwind tour of the triumphs and setbacks that marked the first 100 days of Donald J. Trump’s presidency. An email drafted by State Department diplomats is an apparent attempt to get the U.N. ambassador and the secretary of state on the same page.
Mr. Acosta becomes the only Latino in President Trump’s cabinet, which is now complete.
Mr. Hannity said on Twitter that someone at the network was trying to fire its co-president Bill Shine, whom he called “an innocent person.”
While many fans defended Mr. O’Reilly after his departure from Fox News, some network viewers said harassment accusations against him were worrisome.
No case connected to the state’s recent spate of executions was more locally resonant than the one involving Cecil Boren, whose killer, Kenneth D. Williams, was executed on Thursday night.
The arrangement includes a condition that the amount that Dr. David Dao will receive is to remain confidential.
President Trump’s vow to tighten immigration policies have spurred thousands to seek an EB-5 visa before tougher requirements can be put in place.
Scientists say that efforts to save the small porpoise in the Gulf of California have essentially failed, and some believe there may be only two or three left.
Francis wants Egyptian leaders to ensure minority rights for Christians, after two bombings on Palm Sunday killed more than 40 people.
Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” funny and illuminating, dares to wonder what Ibsen’s Nora Helmer has been up to since she slammed that door.
Modern genetic tools have provided new details of how domestication changes animals as they become entwined with humans.
The so-called Groveland Four were convicted of raping a white woman in 1949. This week, the state apologized for its role.
Richard Dabate was charged in his wife’s 2015 death after investigators say they found a contradiction between his story and her exercise tracker’s data.
With a new technique, German researchers isolated Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA from sediment alone, opening new possibilities in archaeology.
Officials are seeking the reason for an “unusual mortality event” that has left 41 humpback whales dead since early 2016 from North Carolina to Maine.
The multiyear, traveling exhibition will open on June 17 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
This new Netflix comedy’s strength is its confident, consistent voice, even though its rapid-fire jokes don’t all land.
An Israeli couple lose a son and have some trouble finding a path back to normalcy.
The city’s lone Burmese restaurant brings the rings and chain links of the Burmese alphabet to a Brooklyn street otherwise inscribed in English, Russian and Mandarin.
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