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Florida business group woos NYC CEOs worried about Zohran Mamdani tax plans

A top Florida corporate trade group is luring New York’s capitalists and business titans to come on down to the sunshine state in response to the Big Apple making a hard left turn with socialist Zohran Mamdani favored to win the mayoralty.

July 7, 2025

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Here Are Trump’s New Tariff Threats

President Trump has told seven countries that they will face tariffs of at least 25 percent on Aug. 1 if they don’t reach agreements by then.

July 7, 2025

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New Document Undermines Trump Administration’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans

The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

July 7, 2025

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It’s Hard to Create a Third Party, Even for Elon Musk

Building a viable new political party to rival the Democrats and Republicans is enormously difficult and expensive. Small wonder it hasn’t been done.

July 7, 2025

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Kristi Noem strips ‘temporary’ deportation protection from 76K Hondurans, Nicaraguans — with a $1K a head ‘exit bonus’

Temporary legal status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans to emigrate and receive work permits grew out of Washington’s humanitarian response to Hurricane Mitch, which struck both countries in the fall of 1998, killing almost 7,300 people.

July 7, 2025

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Trump and Netanyahu Expected to Discuss Prospects of Gaza Cease-Fire

The private dinner between the two leaders on Monday marks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s third visit to Washington this year.

July 7, 2025

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US to drop terror designation for Syria’s HTS as Trump gives new prez a chance

The State Department is poised to officially drop its terrorist designation for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist group that toppled the Assad regime and whose leader is now the president of Syria.

July 7, 2025

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Biden aides joked about prez not remembering how many hours he spent with China’s Xi: book

“Sometimes it was thirty-six hours. Other times it was seventy hours. Or maybe it was ninety-some hours,” write the authors of “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.”

July 7, 2025

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Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack of Evidence for Jeffrey Epstein ‘Client List’

After months of promising big revelations, Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged a lack of evidence for a host of conspiracy theories, including a “client list” and a jailhouse murder.

July 7, 2025

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