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- July 2, 2025
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House GOP infighting stalls Trump’s tax bill
Speaker Mike Johnson can lose just three members’ votes and still pass the bill in a party-line vote. But more than a dozen Republicans are currently noes.
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Trump says U.S. struck trade deal with Vietnam that imposes 20% tariff on its imports
Vietnam, whose exports to the U.S. reportedly comprised 30% of its gross domestic product last year, is especially vulnerable to Trump’s tariffs.
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Senate Bill Offers Interest Deduction for Buyers of American-Made Cars
But the benefits of the deduction, estimated to cost $31 billion over four years, may be limited to a narrow slice of consumers, economists say.
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Planned Parenthood at Risk of Losing Millions in Federal Funding
The nation’s largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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What the Supreme Court’s Birthright Ruling Means for Trump’s Power
A recent Supreme Court ruling could allow President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect in some states. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains how the decision also upends the power of federal judges to freeze policies for…
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Solar Industry Says Republican Policy Bill Would Cede Production to China
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
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Trump’s Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback.
Contrary to the president’s assertions, records filed in a fraud case against him suggest that his riches were not the product of a steady and strong empire.
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House Republicans subpoena Brown University and Penn in Ivy League antitrust probe
The probe was first launched in April, but the universities’ responses were deemed “inadequate.”
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Alabama Violated Constitutional Rights of Death Row Inmate, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.
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Trump Falsely Claims Mamdani Is an Illegal Immigrant and Threatens to Arrest Him
President Trump claimed that the New York mayoral candidate, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” his latest effort to promote false conspiracy theories about political opponents.
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