Oregon taxpayers will become some of the first in the nation to have the option to self-identify their race and ethnicity when they file their tax returns next year.   The reason is both simple and complex: Especially at the state level‚ taxes worsen America’s yawning wealth gaps rather than easing them. A growing number of advocates and policymakers are trying to do something about that.  “By allowing this data to be collected‚ we can begin to look at how to dismantle the...

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio accused President Biden of sharing the details of his private phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the press in order to appease anti-Israel &;quot;pro-terrorist&;quot; activists within the Democratic Party. On Saturday‚ Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack on Israel‚ firing 170 drones‚ more than 30 cruise missiles and more than 120 ballistic missiles towards Israel. Out of the hundreds of launches‚ only a &;quot;few&;quot; crossed into Israel ...

President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States would not participate in any Israeli counter-offensive against Iran‚ U.S. officials said on Sunday. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday night in response to a suspected Israeli attack on Iran's Syria consulate on April 1. In a statement issued late on Saturday following the attacks‚ Biden said he told Netanyahu that Israel had &;quot;demonstrated a remarkable capacity to...

President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won't support any Israeli counterattack against Iran‚ a senior White House official told Axios. Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences‚ U.S. officials said. Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in...

In surveys of uncommitted voters ahead of Donald Trump’s criminal trials‚ persuadable voters on the margins of the electorate seem convinced of two seemingly contradictory assertions. First‚ the former president’s pursuers are obsessed in their manic effort to charge Trump with something — anything — that might stick. That’s as true of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution as it is of Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis and even the Justice Department special counsel‚ Jack Smith; the...

It’s often described as “the hush money case.” But former President Donald Trump would not be facing an unprecedented criminal trial – the first ever to involve a past and possibly future chief executive of the United States – if all he had done was pay porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair. Paying hush money on its own isn’t generally illegal. What Mr. Trump instead has been charged with is orchestrating a cover-up to hide those payments via fake invoices‚...

On Monday‚ jury selection for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president begins in Manhattan. Former President Donald Trump‚ who has previously been found liable in civil trials‚ is now set to face charges that could land him in prison. Trump is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his former lawyer and fixer‚ Michael Cohen‚ made to adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford‚ ...

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