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New proposals would fund social and climate programs by tapping billionaires’ unrealized gains and by ensuring that the biggest companies cannot avoid income taxes altogether.

Democrats, including President Biden, are lobbying for Senator Joe Manchin III’s support, knowing he is a crucial swing vote on their domestic agenda.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro should face a series of criminal indictments over his response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a committee of the country’s senators .

Covid-19 was “the eighth-highest killer of kids in this age group over the past year,” said a C.D.C. official in favor of broader authorization.

White House enters ‘hand-to-hand’ combat stage of negotiations  POLITICO The search for creative solutions to the thorniest issues in Biden’s agenda as deadline pressure kicks into high gear  CNN Majority in US concerned about climate: AP-NORC/EPIC poll  Yahoo News Is Biden’s entire agenda

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a hearty endorsement to embattled Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro right as a Brazilian Senate panel recommended slapping him with criminal charges. In a statement released on Tuesday, Trump praised the far-right Bolsonaro and

The latest global climate promises to cut emissions are not yet enough to stay under the dangerous threshold of global heating that would trigger severe climate breakdown, UN scientists have warned.

Two men went on trial on Tuesday over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime. President Emmanuel Macron attended the funeral of the Holocaust survivor who escaped a notorious

Day, a Illinois State University graduate student, was reported missing on Aug. 24. LaSalle County authorities say the manner in which he went into the Illinois River is currently unknown. (Image credit: Bloomington (Ill.) Police)

Manchin Is in the Middle, With Biden’s Agenda in the Balance  The New York Times Democrats Divided Over Tax Proposals to Pay for Budget Bill  The New York Times What’s a ‘wealth tax’ and how would it work?  KOMO News Is Biden’s entire