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Year: 2021

Westchester County district attorney’s office investigating Trump Organization golf course property taxes

By Sonia Moghe and Kara Scannell, CNN The Westchester County, New York, district attorney’s office has opened an investigation into the Trump Organization, looking into whether the company misled a local town over the property value of its golf course for tax purposes, multiple people familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Investigators are looking

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Sinema’s opposition to raising the corporate tax rate leaves White House scrambling to pay for Biden’s agenda

By Phil Mattingly, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN Top Biden administration officials are now weighing a range of different ideas to finance a sweeping economic and climate package as opposition from Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has thrown initial plans to raise the corporate tax rate into doubt, according to two people familiar with the

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Prosecutors say they can’t access encrypted emails or find restricted data from couple accused of stealing naval secrets

By Jessica Schneider and Ellie Kaufman, CNN Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that the government still cannot find most of the classified data they say was stolen by a Maryland couple trying to sell naval secrets to a foreign country. The revelation came during a detention hearing for Diana Toebbe, who is charged, along with her

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La FDA autoriza las dosis de refuerzo de las vacunas de Moderna y Johnson & Johnson, y da luz verde a combinación

CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) autorizó las dosis de refuerzo de las vacunas contra covid-19 fabricadas por Moderna y Johnson & Johnson el miércoles y también dijo que cualquiera de las tres vacunas autorizadas podría usarse como refuerzo en un enfoque

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Black borrowers liken student loan debt to ‘Jim Crow’ saying it deepens racial inequality, new study finds

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Black borrowers say policymakers have ignored the racial and economic evidence of inequality in student loan debt with the majority insisting that canceling all student debt is the best solution to the crisis, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Education Trust. The report, which focuses on the

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GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry pleads not guilty to federal charges and steps down from committee assignments

By Melanie Zanona and Christina Carrega, CNN GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, who was recently indicted for allegedly concealing information and lying to the FBI regarding an investigation into illegal campaign contributions, pleaded not guilty Wednesday during an arraignment. A federal grand jury in California indicted Fortenberry Tuesday with one count of scheming to

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Biden’s pick for US ambassador to China backs increasing security assistance to Taiwan

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to be US Ambassador to China called for a continued commitment to the longstanding “One China” Policy but defended the United States’ right to increase security assistance to Taiwan amid Beijing’s aggression towards the island. Testifying at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Nicholas Burns said reports indicating

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