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Democrats see Trump’s big bill as key to their comeback. It may not be so easy
07/04/2025 08:57am • WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa (AP) — It is big and it is beautiful, President Donald Trump says. But for many Democratic leaders, the tax break and spending cut package passed by Trump's Republican allies in Congress on Thursday represents the key to the Democratic Party's resurgence. Even before the fina
'Hardly a cloud in the sky' in the DC area on the Fourth of July
07/04/2025 05:06am • The Fourth of July in the D.C. area will be full of sunshine, good weather and celebrations as temperatures are forecast between the 60s and 80s. On Friday, it'll be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 80s. It'll be dry and less humid than the past week had been in the region. "Grab the sungl
Pakistan’s biggest brewery is evolving from its 165-year-old liquor legacy
07/04/2025 03:02am • RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A pungent fug of malt and yeastiness hangs over Murree Brewery, Pakistan ’s biggest and oldest producer of alcoholic drinks. The company is an outlier in a country where alcohol is outlawed for everyone except non-Muslims, who make up some 9 million people out of 241
What's in Trump's big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law
07/03/2025 10:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cut bill through the House on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to his desk by the GOP's self-imposed deadline of July 4th. At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks
From heartbreak to hope: Julie Vanloo's rollercoaster week leads her to the Sparks
07/03/2025 10:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Julie Vanloo stood outside Barclays Center 2 hours before tipoff of Los Angeles' game against New York. She was waiting to clear waivers and join her new team. Vanloo had a long journey, paying for her own flight overnight from San Francisco after getting cut by the Golden State Va
The House gives final approval to Trump's big tax bill in a milestone for his second-term agenda
07/03/2025 09:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump’s big multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday in Congress, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. The tight ro
Michael Madsen, 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Kill Bill' star, dies at 67
07/03/2025 07:46pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Madsen, the actor best known for his coolly menacing, steely-eyed, often sadistic characters in the films of Quentin Tarantino including “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” has died. Madsen was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, California, on Thurs
The Latest: House gives final approval to Trump’s big tax bill and sends it to him to sign
07/03/2025 07:21pm • House Republicans lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a poten
Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ lawyers say he is a changed man. Will that spare him from more time behind bars?
07/03/2025 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In rejecting Sean “Diddy” Combs’ release on bail, a federal judge confronted the hip-hop impresario with a disturbing aspect of his criminal case that his lawyers couldn’t deny: his history of violence. Combs' defense lawyers claimed he is a changed man. But Judge Arun Subr
What to know about buying electric vehicles after the federal tax incentives end
07/03/2025 04:57pm • The massive tax and spending cut bill that Congress passed Thursday ends federal tax incentives for electric vehicles. Buyers have until Sept. 30 to qualify for the federal tax
credit
s on EVs before they are terminated. But experts say there are still strong financial reasons to consider buying the
Here's what to know about clean energy in Republican megabill headed to Trump
07/03/2025 04:36pm • Congress passed a massive tax and spending cuts package Thursday that curbs billions of dollars in spending across clean energy. That means people will be paying a lot more for home solar, energy efficiency and other green technologies — and the nation's efforts to address climate change just got
Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly
07/03/2025 04:13pm • In a matter of days, an isolated training airport in the Everglades where endangered Florida panthers roam became a sprawling immigration detention center christened "Alligator Alcatraz,” modeled after the state’s frequent responses to hurricanes and built in part by companies whose owners have
Shubman Gill's record-breaking 269 puts India in control at Edgbaston
07/03/2025 03:14pm • BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — India backed up Shubman Gill's phenomenal 269 with three cheap England wickets on a dream day of test cricket for the visitors at Edgbaston on Thursday. After Gill's 8 1/2-hour innings led India to 587 all out — its highest score in England in 35 years — pacers Akash
Fears in Massachusetts that Trump's bill could unravel health safety net
07/03/2025 02:49pm • BOSTON (AP) — In the state that served as the model for Obamacare, advocates and health care workers fear the Trump administration is dismantling piece-by-piece a popular program that has provided insurance, preventive care and life-saving medication to hundreds of thousands of people. The House
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