The blueprint, expected to be announced on Wednesday, jettisons a House Republican proposal to impose a tax on imports, which would help offset the cuts.
Talk of a corporate tax cut helped fuel a stock rally, but executives say it is too soon to judge whether the president can deliver on his promises.
A federal judge in California temporarily halted the administration’s efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Representative Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House oversight committee, said Michael T. Flynn also appeared to have inappropriately accepted payments without seeking permission.
Lawmakers are negotiating a spending bill that would supply no money for a border wall but would increase funding for the military and other border security measures. The moves to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands would begin to fulfill a campaign promise to create thousands of jobs in energy.
Mr. Alles, who came from Customs and Border Protection, will be the first director of the agency in at least a century not to have served in its ranks.
The Trump administration seized on the decision to slap tariffs on the industry’s exports as a way to demonstrate the president’s tough-on-trade posture.
The president appears to be trying to reset his relationship with the Jewish community after a series of controversies.
Stock market indexes rose sharply, with the Nasdaq ending above 6,000, on reports that President Trump was seeking to cut corporate taxes. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
The 1994 Rwandan genocide tore the country apart. But today, in the village of Mbyo, perpetrators and victims live side by side. “Reconciliation villages” place homes for those convicted of carrying out the violence alongside those who suffered at their hands.
After an extended break from competition, Azarenka is training in her native Belarus with a new coach and a new traveling companion: her infant son.
A reader (and writer) of memoirs notes that dysfunction and disease haunt the genre. What can he read that’s trauma-free?
Eleven current and former employees filed a class-action suit accusing the network of “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the far-left fourth-place finisher in France’s presidential vote, has refused to back Ms. Le Pen’s centrist opponent in the runoff, giving her an opportunity.
The National Front’s popularity among young voters in France has been on the rise, and a 25-year-old is trying to put a fresh face on a party associated with the uglier side of nationalism and Europe's far right. The two nationalist politicians’ views have drifted apart as Mr. Trump moved to more conventional positions on NATO, the E.U. and the Middle East.
Populism has been growing since the 1960s, and research suggests it’s not slowing down. Four recent elections show how this dynamic can play out.
Outlaws stole millions of dollars at a cash transporting company in Ciudad del Este, a Paraguayan city on the so-called Triple Frontier where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet.
Students see live-streaming video of classrooms as an intrusion, prompting a debate in China about privacy, educational ethics and helicopter parenting.
Officials say the move, which would cause huge disruptions for commuters, is needed because infrastructure at the terminal urgently needs an overhaul.
Officials said the ban was part of an effort to “curb religious fervor” in Xinjiang, but rights advocates called it the latest in a line of hostile policies.
When a public figure utters a slur and news organizations use euphemisms to describe it, a question comes up: Who’s really being protected?
Newly released documents say Dr. David Dao flailed his arms and fought with an officer, a claim his lawyer called “utter nonsense.”
All 15 board members won support from at least 53 percent of voting shareholders despite the sales scandal that emerged last year.
Zouping’s troubles show how companies in China guarantee one another’s loans, representing a potential hazard within China’s vast financial system.
Two female flight attendants who sued Aeroflot for age and sex discrimination were upbraided at a news conference by two men defending the airline.
Corey Hawkins soars as a great pretender in this otherwise earthbound revival of John Guare’s masterwork.
The self-driving-car outfit, spun out of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is moving to the next phase of testing: putting civilians inside its Chrysler minivans and Lexuses.
The president’s daughter, on a stage with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, said her father was a champion of families. Some in the audience groaned. An analysis suggests that states with large numbers of concealed-carry permit holders and relaxed gun laws had more cases of road rage with firearms.
“Only I can tell my story,” Madonna said in reaction to “Blond Ambition,” a biopic in the works about her years in gritty 1980s New York.
The authorities said Mr. Soules, who appeared in season 19 of the series, left the scene of a motor-vehicle accident where a death occurred.
The author has prowled the streets of the Italian city for over 15 years, wondering the whole time why there are so few other people doing the same thing.
Vineyards and culinary marvels beckon in the austere backcountry of the Valle de Guadalupe in Mexico.
A court in the British capital has ruled that a woman had every right to paint her house in candy-cane red and white, even if only to spite her neighbors.
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