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What is the 90-year-old tax rule Trump could use to double US taxes on foreigners?

US President Donald Trump isn’t happy about the way some countries are taxing American citizens and companies. He has made clear he’s willing to retaliate, threatening to double taxes for their own citizens and companies.

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President Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, “It’s all about common sense.”

The Conversation

Can The President Unilaterally Declare An Invasion?

Or can only Congress declare an invasion, like Congress has the sole power to declare war?

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Donald Trump restores Diet Coke button to Oval Office – and other strange habits of US presidents

The soft drink hotline was said to be back in place even before inauguration day was over

Evening Standard

Netizens Compare Past First Ladies’ Inauguration Outfits After Melania’s Dress Goes Viral

Here are the most memorable Inauguration Day looks by first ladies of the USA through the years. The post Netizens Compare Past First Ladies’ Inauguration Outfits After Melania’s Dress Goes Viral first appeared on Bored Panda.

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How does Trump’s age at inauguration compare with other presidents?

At 78 years and seven months, Donald Trump will become the oldest president in US history on inauguration day.

Al Jazeera

How do Donald Trump’s executive orders compare to all other US presidents?

Recent presidents of the United States have issued fewer executive orders.

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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three…

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Biden to sign proclamation establishing national monument honoring first US female Cabinet secretary

President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins

The Independent UK

Trump wants to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war

President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation in his second term.

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Trump's risky Social Security plans

Millions are barely scraping by on the program, which Trump seems determined to gut

Salon

Trump and his team keep referencing a third term in 2028. But could he actually run again?

The 22nd amendment bars presidents from a third term in office. Is it enough to stop Trump?

The Independent UK

The great remembrance divide: Britain fought for freedom in Europe, but against it in the colonies

While war raged against Hitler, people in places such as India were brutalised – despite their own sacrifices to the cause, says author Mihir Bose

The Guardian - UK

Trump and the imperial presidency

Presidential powers have expanded dramatically throughout American history. Now we've handed them back to him

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The election is over − but what is a ‘lame duck’ anyway?

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now?

The Conversation

Ego, hubris and narcissism: Where Donald Trump ranks among the other 45 American presidents

Sometimes Donald Trump really is a G.O.A.T. — the “greatest of all time” — among American presidents, at least. Of course, “greatest” in this instance refers to quantity or bulk, not quality.

The Guardian - US

Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?

We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

Evening Standard

OPINION - Beth Rigby: Keir Starmer's first 100 days have been dreadful — can his reset work?

Keir Starmer has suffered a tumultuous first 100 days as Prime Minister. A strategic reset needs to restore voter confidence in his administration

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The Independent UK

All the presidents Jimmy Carter’s life has overlapped with as he turns 100

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

The Times of India

US Presidents who died of heart attack and stroke

The threat of heart attack and other related conditions continues to grow. This is reflected in the number of celebrities, and the who's who from different walks of life losing their lives due to cardiac deaths. There is a long list of US presidents who have suffered cardiac events and…

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Trump and Harris, with starkly different records on labor issues, are both courting union voters

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House. Every voting bloc will count – including members of labor unions and other people in their households.

The Conversation

Democratic Party’s embrace of organized labor in 2024 elections has long roots that had started to wither

I wonder what my dad, a butcher and a die-hard union man, would think about the state of our country’s political affairs. Is it “Morning in America” as Ronald Reagan exclaimed? “American Carnage” as Donald Trump proclaimed? Or, do “we have nothing to fear but fear itself,” as Franklin D.…

Salon

Not like '68: DNC is back in Chicago

Chicago has been home to Democratic conventions both triumphant and disastrous

The Conversation

US election: does it matter who is the vice-presidential pick? In Tim Walz’s case, yes

The fanfare and publicity surrounding Tim Walz for his first fortnight as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick has sparked renewed interest as to whether the second person on the ticket makes any difference when it comes to the result of the election. The conventional wisdom on the role and significance of…

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Can Kamala Harris help Democrats regain lost Black votes?

Some Black voters have drifted away from the Democrats in recent years, but will Harris be able to pull them back?

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