Tag: federal
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Elon Musk defends $1 million petition giveaway after federal warning
Tech billionaire Elon Musk defended the legality of his super PAC’s $1 million daily giveaway to registered voters in swing states, days after the Justice Department sent a letter warning that the lottery-style contest might be unlawful. Musk, during an online town hall event Friday on his social media app X, asserted that the purpose…
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Federal judge blocks Virginia from dropping alleged non-citizens from voter rolls
A federal judge on Friday granted a Department of Justice request to block Virginia from systematically removing alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls this close to an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles ordered the state to stop its program immediately and restore the voter registrations of more than 1,600 people who were removed in…
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IRS announces new federal income tax brackets for 2025
The IRS has announced new federal income tax brackets and standard deductions for 2025. In its announcement on Tuesday, the agency raised the income thresholds for each bracket, which applies to tax year 2025 for returns filed in 2026. The top rate of 37% applies to individuals with taxable income above $626,350 and married couples filing jointly earning $751,600…
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A federal disaster fund has drawn 50,000 applications after twin hurricanes. One problem: It’s out of money.
When the river began to rise in Asheville, North Carolina, last month, Lucious Wilson stood on a nearby hill and watched as his brewery slowly vanished in the floodwaters generated by Hurricane Helene. “We need help,” he told NBC News this week, standing near the ruins of his business, Wedge Brewery. “We don’t need politics.”…
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Federal judge blocks Alabama’s voter purge program ahead of election
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program that flagged thousands of registered voters and accused them of illegally registering in the state. The Justice Department had filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama challenging the program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls, arguing it was too close to…
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The Federal Reserve may have pretty much just hit its 2% inflation target
This week’s inflation data provided more evidence that the Federal Reserve is nearing its objective, fresh on the heels of the central bank’s dramatic interest rate cut just a few weeks ago. Consumer and producer price indexes for September both came in around expectations, showing that inflation is drifting down to the central bank’s 2%…
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Trump argues special counsel’s evidence in federal election case shouldn’t be released before Election Day
Attorneys for Donald Trump on Thursday argued against the release of additional evidence in the former president’s federal election interference case in the lead up to Election Day. “There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized—during early voting in the…
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Trump casts ‘election interference’ label on everything while facing federal charges
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump has never stopped propagating falsehoods that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. But now, he is increasingly turning his attention to pre-emptive claims the 2024 election is being rigged to prevent him from returning to the White House. This year, Trump and his campaign have cited more than a dozen…
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White supremacist gang members in San Fernando Valley face federal charges
Nearly 70 people who belong to or are associated with a white supremacist gang in the San Fernando Valley were indicted on federal charges, authorities announced Wednesday, saying the multi-agency operation was Los Angeles’ largest ever takedown of an extremist group. The alleged criminal organization trafficked weapons and drugs, including fentanyl, while committing fraud and…
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Justice Department launches first federal review of 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on May 31, 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsa’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, which had gained the nickname “Black…