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According to the timeline laid out in President Donald Trump’s May 12 executive order, prescription drug price reductions would not happen "almost immediately." The order specifies a 30-day period to ...
See the sources for this fact-check Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seized on a May 9 video of a train car meeting among three European leaders to claim they had used drugs and were trying to hide it.
The House's first draft of tax legislation includes a provision to end taxation of overtime pay, as President Donald Trump promised in 2024. The provision is included in the 389-page tax bill, which ...
Only people with legal immigration status — including people who are noncitizens in the U.S. on green cards or student visas, for example — are eligible to receive Real ID cards. But other types of ...
The House's first draft of tax legislation includes a provision sought by President Donald Trump to allow tax deductions for interest on car loans. The 389-page tax bill, which is a starting point for ...
The law Trump called "woke" and "racist" is used by every state to expand high-speed internet access to millions of Americans, not racial minorities alone. Trump does not have the power to declare the ...
An April 2 study found that 8% of U.S. veterans rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, sometimes referred to as food stamps. No state had a share higher than 14%.
Former President Bill Clinton signed a 1996 law establishing expedited removal, a fast-track deportation that allows for deportations without going before an immigration judge. Although people’s due ...
Prevost, 69, is a registered voter in Will County, Illinois, and cast ballots there over the past 13 years. In Illinois, voters do not register by party affiliation. But they declare a party when ...
Trump isn’t the first to overstate new investments on his watch. President Joe Biden said in 2024 that his bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act had attracted $640 billion in private investments; ...
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