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With time running short to address the debt ceiling or risk default, President Joe Biden said Tuesday he will cut his upcoming foreign trip short to be back in time for “final negotiations.” Biden will depart Wednesday to meet with G-7 leaders in Japan, but will now travel back Sunday […]

For some people, a parking spot is a nightmare and for others it’s a status symbol tied to their homes and vehicles. Slate reporter Henry Grabar, who wrote the book “Paved Paradise How Parking Explains the World,” however said that that piece of concrete or a spot inside a garage […]

NEW YORK — Most taxpayers are interested in filing their taxes directly to the IRS for free, a new report says, and that option will be tested next year. The IRS has spent the past nine months studying whether U.S. taxpayers want to see a free, e-filing system run by […]

WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo has agreed to a pay $1 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by its shareholders who alleged the bank made misleading statements about its compliance with federal regulators after a fake account-opening scandal came to light in 2016. The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of […]

Firefighters rescued four people and at least one dog from a major apartment fire in downtown Portland on Tuesday before they were ordered to fall back ByThe Associated Press May 16, 2023, 3:57 PM PORTLAND, Ore. — Firefighters rescued several people and at least one dog from a dramatic, three-alarm […]

Musk called Epstein a “dumb crook” after he was subpoenaed. May 16, 2023, 1:05 PM Billionaire Elon Musk blasted Jeffrey Epstein, who he referred to as a “dumb crook,” after he was subpoenaed as part of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands against JPMorgan Chase & Co., which […]

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday vetoed a congressional resolution that would have reinstated tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia, settling for now a long-running dispute over whether to punish China for trade violations that bypass U.S. rules limiting imports of cheap solar panels from Asia. The […]

The U.S. State Department is condemning the arrest of a former employee of a U.S. consulate in Russia May 16, 2023, 1:51 PM The U.S. State Department on Tuesday condemned the arrest of a former employee of a U.S. consulate in Russia, the latest example of the country’s crackdown against […]

New York City is prepared to house asylum-seekers in as many as 20 schools with free-standing gyms, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. “This is one of the last places we want to look at. None of us are comfortable with having to take these drastic steps,” the mayor told NY1 […]

BEIJING — China’ is prepared to “resolutely smash any form of Taiwan independence,” its military said Tuesday, as the U.S. reportedly prepares to accelerate the sale of defensive weapons and other military assistance to the self-governing island democracy. A recent increase in exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries is […]