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Rare signed photos of former US Presidents fetch a pretty penny at auction

A signed 1863 portrait of Abraham Lincoln sold for $139,200, while an autographed 1862 photo of assassin John Wilkes Booth fetched $107,950

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Trump Says He Gets 'No Credit' For Taking $0 Salary — Compared With Biden's $1.6M, Obama's $3.2M

Donald Trump claims to be the only US president to waive his salary, while media outlets countered that John F. Kennedy and even Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries to charities.

International Business Times UK

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1945 to 1969

Almost every president since 1945 has refused to accept Humphrey's Executor as having been correctly decided.

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Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1921 to 1933

Every President from 1921 to 1933 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.

Reason

The President’s Paycheck: A Look at America’s Presidential Salaries

Here's a closer look at what the president's compensation would be in the coming years of his second term, and what it has been historically.

GOBankingRates

‘Disorder, fright and confusion’: looking back at the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book 1929 takes readers back to the crash that changed the US and looks at what we can learn from it today

The Guardian - US

‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), he explores how the word liberal – and particularly its variant white liberal – became a…

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Trump Warns Of $15 Trillion Investment Cancellation, Mcconnell Compares Tariff Era To 1930s And More: This Week In Politics

It’s been a whirlwind of a week in the world of politics and finance. Here’s a quick recap of the top stories that made headlines over the weekend.

Benzinga

Mitch McConnell Says Trump Tariffs-Ushered Era Has 'Similarities' With The 1930s: 'This Is The Most Dangerous Period Since Before World War Two'

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a recent interview that today's economic backdrop shares "certain similarities" with the 1930s, pointing to President Herbert Hoover's 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the era's isolationist "America First" politics.

Benzinga

Public opinion is split as US marks 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Americans are divided between support and opposition for the US decision to drop an atomic bomb during World War II.

Al Jazeera

Travel Back In Time With These 47 Stunning Photos Of 1920s D.C.

Would you like to walk the streets of Washington, D.C., a century ago?

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Justice Kagan Tells Us What She Really Thinks About President Trump

The Court "hand[s] the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)."

Reason

After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t work

The Guardian - US

Mitch McConnell Cautions Trump of Previous 'America First' Policy That 'Did Not Work For Us' in Objection to Tariffs: 'Try Something Different'

Sen. Mitch McConnell listed reasons why Donald Trump's plan to implement tariffs, comparing the administration's economic goals to previous plans.

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Over 1,500 Economists Agree: Trump's Tariffs Are Terrible

Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade.

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Presidential pooches: Famous US presidents’ dogs

From George Washington to Joe Biden, discover the most famous US presidents' dogs throughout history

The Independent UK

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs

Latin Times

Trump Hoped Economy Would Crash Under Biden in Resurfaced Clip as Markets Continue to Plummet

A clip of Trump expressing hope that the economy would crash before his second term has resurfaced as global markets suffer their worst downturn in years.

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Ferris Bueller scene goes viral as Trump tariffs take effect: ‘Did it work? Anyone?’

Ben Stein plays an economics teacher explaining how tariffs exacerbated the Great Depression

The Independent UK

George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents

Al Jazeera

Before Trump: The long US history of tariff wars with Canada and the world

From a chicken war to a banana brawl, here’s a history of tariff wars the US has fought in.

The Independent UK

What is USAID? The government agency Elon Musk said needs to 'die’

The agency targeted by Elon Musk has a long history of helping people in need around the world

The Conversation

‘Wearied’ almost to death: U.S. presidents have often experienced despair amid political turmoil

The 2024 presidential election loss was bad enough for Democrats in the United States, generating dismay and woeful post-mortems throughout the ranks.

The Guardian - US

Millions of Mexican Americans were deported in the 1930s. Are we about to repeat this ‘ethnic cleansing’?

Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what is unfolding today

Reason

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Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.

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