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IRS drafting plans to slash as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce leaving agency ‘dysfunctional,’ AP sources say

A reduction in force of tens of thousands of people would render the IRS “dysfunctional,” said John Koskinen, a former IRS Commissioner.

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Vance irks allies in UK, France with skeptical comments about Ukraine peacekeeping mission proposal

Vance, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity aired Monday evening, said the economic pact with Kyiv sought by President Donald Trump “is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought

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Vance irks allies in UK, France with skeptical comments about Ukraine peacekeeping mission proposal

Vance, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity aired Monday evening, said the economic pact with Kyiv sought by President Donald Trump “is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought

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Businesses hit by new tariffs U.S. slaps on Mexico, Canada and China

The White House is implementing two new policies with global consequences ahead of President’s Trump’s address to Congress. The Trump administration is halting military aid to Ukraine and it’s imposing new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. Roben Farzad, economic

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Ukraine scrambles to salvage fractured alliance with U.S. as military aid is suspended

U.S. officials told the News Hour the U.S. and Ukraine are working toward an agreement over future revenues from Ukraine’s critical mineral resources. That deal was derailed when Friday’s Oval Office meeting melted down. This as the White House pauses

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Watch Live: Trump’s Speech to Joint Session of Congress

President Donald Trump delivers the first joint congressional address of his second presidency. The address to members of Congress is Trump’s first since he was sworn in as President for the second time on Jan. 20. Presidents typically address a

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Follow NPR’s annotated fact check of President Trump’s address to Congress – NPR

Follow NPR’s annotated fact check of President Trump’s address to Congress  NPR Live updates: Trump to give first speech to Congress in second term  The Washington Post Who wrote Trump’s big speech tonight?  POLITICO Here’s How Democrats Are Protesting Trump’s Speech to Congress  The

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Protest Groups Gather to Assail Trump’s Presidency

ATLANTA — As Donald Trump prepared Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress, protest groups gathered at parks, statehouses and other public grounds across the country to assail his presidency as dangerous and un-American. The rallies and marches —

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Powerful storms across U.S. bring rage of threats from fires to blizzard conditions

Forecasts on Tuesday also predicted dust storms in the southwest, tornadoes in the South and blizzard conditions in the Central Plains, and were forcing some changes to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Netflix’s With Love, Meghan Is a Royal Primer on Entertaining That Couldn’t Be More Boring

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, live on a stunning estate in Montecito, an upscale coastal enclave near Santa Barbara, Calif. Purchased for almost $15 million in 2020 and now estimated to be worth twice as

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