April 17, 2018
Happy Tax Day from Washington, where lawmakers' changes to the tax code should make for happier filing next year. Adam Michel does the math. The two men who used to run the FBI face the court of public opinion—and perhaps worse, as Hans von Spakovsky and Fred Lucas suggest in separate pieces. Ukraine sees an opening as the U.S. and China clash on trade, Nolan Peterson reports. Plus: Lucas on what troops at the border could mean, Elizabeth Slattery and Sarah Williams on some big Supreme Court cases, and Pete Parisi on the pleasures of a politics-free awards show. Post those tax returns by midnight, hear?
What did the former FBI official lie about? Unauthorized disclosures about the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The information was leaked to a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
"Like many others, I was surprised when Donald Trump was elected president," former FBI Director James Comey tells ABC News.
President Trump's goal of 4,000 Guard troops is fewer than George W. Bush sent to the border, but more than Barack Obama sent.
In 2018, the average American will work the first 109 days of the year to earn enough money to pay his or her full tax bill.
The court will consider whether President Trump’s proclamation suspending aliens’ travel to the United States from eight countries exceeds his authority and violates the Establishment Clause.
Five years ago, the U.S. supplied about 97 percent of Chinese corn imports. In 2017, however, Ukraine accounted for about two-thirds of China's imported corn.
The students' federal suit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and instructor Tariq Khan says that the university got a restraining order preventing them from reporting on Khan’s involvement in an anti-Trump protest.
The Academy of Country Music Awards is free of Trump-bashing and, more specifically, devoid of gun control demagoguery.
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