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CFPB Employees Left Stranded and Confused After Stop-Work Orders
Barely two days after Russell Vought, the new acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ordered the agency to close its…
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Federal Debt Is Now Worrying Even Progressives
The 119th Congress began, as it so often has in recent years, with calls from Republican politicians for wrestling down the national debt,…
Politics
The $8 Billion Children’s Vaccine Fund R.F.K. Jr. Would Oversee
When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they…
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E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.
Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. Starting Jan. 1 they…
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Inside the $32 Billion Industry Transforming Marijuana
An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft…
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Supreme Court Revives Law Meant to Fight Money Laundering
The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a federal law requiring companies to report information about their owners in an effort to combat…
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Trump’s D.E.I. Order Causes ‘Chaos’ Among Corporate Leaders
More than 200 diversity officers, some from Fortune 500 companies and some from nonprofits, gathered last summer at N.Y.U. School of Law…
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How the Debt Could Hamstring Trump’s Agenda
When House Republicans gathered behind closed doors on Capitol Hill last week to hash out their plans for cutting taxes, Representative…
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CapCut, a Video-Editing App From ByteDance, Returns for U.S. Users
TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing…
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Trump’s Executive Order to End E.V. Subsidies Draws Pushback
If President Trump has his way, the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles will soon slam into reverse. He will erase tax credits…
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Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for 75 days, even though the law took…
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Trump, the Deal Maker in Chief, Is Back
The questions facing a new Trump era Good morning on this Inauguration Day. Welcome to Round 2 of President Donald Trump. No matter your…
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TikTok Got a Reprieve, but Americans and Chinese Are Still on RedNote
TikTok got an apparent reprieve from being forced to shut down, but Americans on Monday were still using and downloading Xiaohongshu, the…
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TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to…
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TikTok Ban Behind Fire Set at a Mall With Congressman’s Office, Police Say
A man was arrested in connection with a fire set early on Sunday in response to “recent talks” of banning the popular video app TikTok,…
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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in…
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What We Know About the TikTok Ban
Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States…
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TikTok Tells Users It Will Be ‘Temporarily Unavailable’ in the U.S.
Hours before a new federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect, the social media app showed users a pop-up…
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TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users
TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users on Sunday because of a ban in the United…
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Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that effectively bans the wildly popular app TikTok in the United States starting on…
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E.U. Expands Investigation of Musk’s X Over Illicit Content
As Elon Musk’s geopolitical influence grows because of his closeness to incoming President Donald J. Trump, regulators in Europe have…
Politics
What Did Trump’s Tax Cuts Do?
Seven years ago, when Republicans passed the most significant overhaul of the tax code in a generation, they were sure the law would…
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TikTok Makes Last-Minute Push as Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule on Ban
As the Supreme Court was poised on Friday to announce its landmark decision on whether to uphold a law that would effectively ban TikTok…
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Trump Is Said to Consider Executive Order to Circumvent TikTok Ban
President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering an executive order to allow TikTok to continue operating despite a pending legal ban until…