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The Senate passed Donald Trump’s tax bill on Tuesday, sending the latest version of the legislation back to the House for more debate. The so-called “Big Beautiful BIll” slashes taxes for millionaires and billionaires, strips millions of lower-income Americans of health insurance, and adds trillions to the national debt. It …

Scenes of “law enforcement” that look like lawlessness are unfolding, daily, on the streets of America. Masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies jump out of unmarked cars. They wear masks and are often irregularly uniformed, in a slapdash assemblage of jeans and security vests. …

Donald Trump hates leakers. He isn’t a fan of journalists, either. He wants to punish them both in response to reporting that early Pentagon intelligence found the administration’s recent strikes against Iran weren’t as effective as the president has been claiming. “They should be prosecuted,” Trump said when Maria Bartiromo …

This story is published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. B y Nov. 3, 2020, the day of the presidential election, 44-year-old Ian Rogers had been preparing for the implosion of American civilization for so long that it seemed like a …

As Elon Musk continues to bash the Republican reconciliation bill, President Donald Trump is threatening consequences against the man who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into his 2024 campaign, and who just months ago was effectively operating as his co-president. Musk’s opposition to the bill led to an explosive …

President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is far from beautiful and deeply unpopular with the public. Battling concerns from voters about increased barriers to accessing programs like Medicaid and food assistance; massive transfers of wealth from less fortunate Americans to corporations and the rich; and the …

Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sprawling legislative package that is expected to kick millions off their health insurance, codify big tax cuts for the wealthy, give a massive funding boost to the administration’s mass deportation efforts, and screw over the nation’s poor with …

President Donald Trump traveled to Florida on Tuesday to tour what Republicans have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a 5,000-bed immigration detention center built in a remote, hot, and disgustingly humid corner of the Everglades. The facility — a collection of plastic tents outfitted with bunk beds in literal cages — was …

In earlier drafts, the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” included a provision that would have ended Medicaid payments for “gender transition procedures” for people of all ages, and introduced narrowly rigid definitions of “sex,” “female,” and “male” that some experts believe would have far-reaching implications, beyond access to healthcare. However, amid …

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s famous for his former hospital company’s record-setting Medicare fraud settlements, is currently leading an effort to make Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even more painful for America’s poor. The legislation already cuts $930 billion from Medicaid, the nation’s government health insurance program for low-income and …