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Did Trump donate his salary in 2020? Tax returns don’t tell full story
Former President Donald Trump arrives at his Mar-a-Lago home on Dec. 31, 2022. Joe Raedle | Getty Images When former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were issued publicly Dec. 30, some news ...
Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to hike vaccine price
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the commercial market. In a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bance...
Powell reiterates Fed is not going to become a ‘climate policymaker’
Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Jerome H. Powell participates in a panel during a Central Bank Symposium at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 10, 2023. Claudi...
Patients would pay up to $26,500 per year for Leqembi
Few seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will have access to the new treatment Leqembi due to its high cost and very limited coverage by Medicare. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday gr...
The Earth’s ozone layer is slowly recovering, UN report finds
In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeabl...
Biden declares emergency in California as more winter storms advance
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House January 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Monday declared an...
France Macron to push for pension reform again despite potential strikes
The French government is presenting new plans to update the pension system. Analysts expect some backlash from some workers. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron is goin...
Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO
Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...
UK PM Sunak seeks ‘constructive’ talks with unions amid new anti-strike laws
LONDON, Jan. 6: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media as he visits Harris Academy in Battersea. Henry Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pre...
Some restaurant workers could see big wage growth in 2023
Employees prepare food orders at a Portillo’s restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images More than half of U.S. states will hike th...
Brazil’s New President Sends Stocks Tumbling. Bonds Could Be a Buy.
Investors brimmed with optimism when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil’s president on Oct. 30, returning to power after two prior terms in 2003 to 2011. It didn’t last. The iShares MSCI Bra...
A Manifesto for Disrupting Global Food Politics
When I started thinking about a manifesto for Disrupting Global Food Politics, I got really excited. For those of you who don’t know me or Food Tank, I am usually on stage as a moderator or inte...
Biden proposes tougher limits on deadly soot pollution
Seen from the window of an Amtrak train, smoke billows up from power plants alongside the tracks in Northern Virginia. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The U.S. Environmental Pro...
South Carolina Supreme Court overturns state abortion ban
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s ban on abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy, ruling that the law violated the state’s constitutional right to pr...
CVS and Walgreens will sell mifepristone in pharmacies
Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, ...
EU strongly recommends travelers from China to take Covid test before entering Europe
European nations are looking at new travel requirements from China after Beijing lifted Covid restrictions. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images European nations on Wednesday recomme...
Omicron XBB.1.5 is most transmissible subvariant, WHO says
XBB.1.5 strain, January 4, 2023, Suqian, Jiangsu, China. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant that’s currently dominating the U.S. is the most contagious versi...
Southwest Airlines cancellations abate after holidays but costs pile up
Pristine Floyde searches for a friend’s suitcase in a baggage holding area for Southwest Airlines at Denver International Airport on December 28, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Michael Ciaglo | Getty...
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty as FTX task force created
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday it had created an FTX Task Force to trace and recover assets of victims of the cryptocurrency exchange firm’s collapse and to handle inves...
Alibaba Stock Is Soaring. What’s Driving Its Big Move.
Alibaba stock was on a tear Wednesday amid signs that the tough regulatory landscape for Chinese tech stocks—one of two key headwinds facing the sector—is improving. Progress has put investors on a bu...
Energy Terms To Retire In 2023
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 10: Activists gather outside the Army Corps of Engineers Office to protest … [+] against the Dakota Access Pipeline March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. . (Photo by Ale...
Crypto’s New Political Vanguard to Watch in 2023
As 2022 comes to a close, lawmakers around the world are lining up their 2023 agendas — and, for many politicians, crypto is expected to be near the top of them. A plethora of new politicians sy...
Opinion: Opinion: Trump’s low tax payments are what happens with a too-complex tax code
People tend to have one of two reactions to the revelation that former President Donald Trump paid little to no taxes in recent years: He’s either an amoral tax cheat or he’s smart. To me, it reveals ...
Opinion: Crypto insurance is nearly nonexistent, so you’ll have to rely on common sense
If only your bitcoin could catch on fire — literally — then it might have a chance of being covered by insurance. For property, fire is a straightforward hazard. But it’s probably the one big thing th...