Marangie
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Sociologist ~ Feminist ~ Activist ~ Mama Bear ~ Owned by Big Black Lab (Rico) … Love All Things Outdoors …. Gardening, Camping, Backpacking, & Hiking. When I Can’t Be Outdoors, I am Usually Reading, Cooking/Baking, or Binge Watching Something.
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Key US mortgage rate drops to 13-month low, industry group says
The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan dropped last week to a 13-month low after a key reading of inflation came in lower than expected, cementing expectations for another Federal Reserve interest-rate cut.
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
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Ald. Mike Rodriguez said eight people, including four U.S. citizens, were taken in an immigration enforcement raid on the Little Village neighborhood.
'Reign of terror': ICE raids hit Mexican neighborhood in Chicago amid court battles
Ald. Mike Rodriguez said eight people, including four U.S. citizens, were taken in an immigration enforcement raid on the Little Village neighborhood.
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Raw Story
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Fired prosecutors who investigated Trump burst back on scene with new anti-corruption firm
A pair of Justice Department prosecutors who lost their jobs after working on special counsel Jack Smith's legal team investigating and charging President Donald Trump are back, having founded a new law firm to take on corruption, CBS News reported on Wednesday.Smith's two legal cases against Trump,...
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10/11 News
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Trump pick to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws after offensive text messages were revealed
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency has withdrawn from consideration after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.
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BREAKING: Pete Hegseth announces two lethal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats over the past two days, the first attacks of their kind in the Pacific Ocean.
Hegseth announces second lethal strike on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a strike in the eastern Pacific killed two people Tuesday. He later announced a second strike, also in the Pacific.
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Techdirt
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Measles Outbreaks Abound Under RFK Jr.’s Inaction
You may be tired of hearing about measles by now, but measles is not tired of infecting Americans. It's worth reminding ourselves that this is a disease that was declared gone in America. Cases and transmission rates were so low in 2000, thanks almost entirely to the widespread promotion and adoption of the MMR vaccine, that we officially put the disease on America's pay-no-mind list.
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ProPublica
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Raw Story
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'That's not how ethics works!' Dem erupts at GOP strategist on CNN over Trump ballroom
A pair of Democrats bashed a GOP strategist on CNN on Tuesday night after the strategist defended President Donald Trump's ballroom renovation project at the White House, which they argued needed more oversight. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) joined CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phi...
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