2024 Presidential Election - Kamala Harris & Donald Trump

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Trump Targets Copper With Tariffs, Though Not as Aggressively as Expected

The president stopped short of putting a 50 percent tariff on refined copper, as he had threatened earlier this year. The market reaction was swift anyway and prices tumbled.

July 30, 2025

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Why the Washington Commanders’ owners are thinking hard about Trump’s demand they restore the ‘Redskins’ moniker

“They’re really getting nervous about Trump’s attacks and how they might impact the stadium deal,” a source told on The Money.

July 30, 2025

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Trump rips ‘second tier’ Sen. Josh Hawley over his PELOSI Act congressional stock trading ban

“I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!”

July 30, 2025

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MTA ditches ban on alcohol ads, dropping activist stance in desperate bid for cash

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has lifted a ban on alcohol ads — dropping its public health activism in a desperate bid for more revenue. The 180 was approved last month, undoing a ban in place since 2017. The move has already drawn the ire of public health workers who gathered outside MTA headquarters on Wednesday…

July 30, 2025

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N.T.S.B. Details Evidence in Fatal Crash at Reagan National Airport

Flight instruments probably led the Black Hawk crew to believe the helicopter was lower than it actually was before the collision with a commercial airplane on Jan. 29.

July 30, 2025

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NYC primary that included dead voters’ ballots is finally decided, but criminal probe swirls

A winner was finally certified in a hotly Brooklyn City Council primary marred by the revelation that ballots had been cast for dead voters — but a criminal investigation will continue.

July 30, 2025

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Trump Executive Order Ends De Minimis Exemption for Rest of World

The low-cost shipments were previously excluded from tariffs; President Trump said the loophole has allowed countries to avoid taxes and smuggle drugs into the U.S.

July 30, 2025

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Ford Is Latest Carmaker to Blame Tariffs for Profit Slump

The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2 billion this year.

July 30, 2025

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FBI chief Kash Patel finds ‘burn bags’ of Trump-Russia documents in secret room

One of the documents is a classified annex to the 2023 report by then-special counsel John Durham that scrutinized the original FBI probe, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane.”

July 30, 2025

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