"CFPB RIP," Elon Musk tweeted on February 7, 2025. Pictured is the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) building in Washington, D.C. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ...

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Trump is resorting to a risky executive order to force down prescription drug prices, as his influence wanes with Congress.

A good reason, and a bad one, not to worry (too much) about India and Pakistan entering a nuclear war over Kashmir.

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In Brownsville, Texas, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, ruled against the president’s lawless ...

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Sam Brownback's radical agenda undermined Kansas's prosperity, decimated vital government services, and put a Democrat in ...

Using and misusing quotations from Shakespeare’s characters is a perennial problem. (The Bard didn’t hate attorneys.) Kudos ...

Whether Republicans will do what had been unthinkable and support higher taxes on the wealthy is far from certain.

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