A bipartisan House duo is drawing up a cryptocurrency tax framework that would provide a safe harbor for some stablecoin transactions and delay taxation of rewards earned by verifying blockchain transactions.

The cryptocurrency sector has clamored for legislation that would clarify the tax treatment of digital assets, even as a broader measure ...Read more

Justice Department officials were protecting victims of Jeffrey Epstein when they removed several images from agency’s release of files tied to the notorious sex offender, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

“There were a number of photographs that were pulled down after being released on Friday,” Blanche said on NBC’s "Meet the ...Read more

A Ukrainian delegation is holding another meeting in Florida with a U.S. negotiating team on Sunday, according to Kyiv’s top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, as talks continue over a possible peace deal.

“The third day of work in the U.S.,” Umerov said on social media. “We are working constructively and substantively. We expect further ...Read more

Another oil tanker has been boarded by the U.S. near Venezuela, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government.

The Bella 1 tanker, a Panamanian-flagged vessel sanctioned by the U.S., was en route to Venezuela to load, one of the people said, asking not ...Read more

A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

“We really expect the Supreme Court is going to find with us,” Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CBS’s...Read more

The blame for America’s current troubles lies squarely with the Democratic establishment. Donald Trump’s re-election was always unlikely given his low approval ratings and divisive style. The Democratic establishment turned it into a certainty by: (1) running an aged and obviously ailing candidate (2) using its power over the press, almost a...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — This flu season has been relatively mild so far but medical experts expect it to intensify in the coming weeks due to a new strain that emerged after the current vaccine’s production — though that inoculation remains the best form of protection.

Data out of the United Kingdom indicates the new strain has resulted in the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — When the history of Florida’s modern era of capital punishment is written, 2025 will be marked as a year that saw an unprecedented embrace of the death penalty.

The state executed 19 prisoners this year — the most since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s.

Executions have been carried out in cases of defendants ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the state prepares for its annual General Assembly session beginning Jan. 14, 2026, there are still new laws from last session set to take effect on New Year’s Day.

Below is a sample of some of the changes coming to Maryland law on Jan. 1, 2026.

No time limits on anesthesia coverage

House Bill 1086 states that if medical ...Read more

As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care.

California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set ...Read more

A yearlong campaign by the far-right Alternative for Germany party to court Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is beginning to bear fruit.

Though the country’s largest opposition group is a virtual pariah among the German political elite due to its xenophobic bent, it is gaining traction among ideological allies who hold power in Washington.

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NEW YORK — On a frigid December morning along busy Broadway in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, pedestrians walk rapidly toward the subway. Cars and e-bikes speed along a busy two-lane road and blast through sharp turns during the early rush to get to the office.

In recent years on this stretch of Broadway, cars have struck and ...Read more

It’s really the end for disgraced former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, who served as the case officer for both the Karen Read and Brian Walshe murder investigations.

The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission formally suspended Proctor’s law enforcement certification, according to a ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean early Saturday that was last docked in Venezuela, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade.

The Centuries supertanker laden with up to 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude was flying a Panamanian flag, according to ...Read more

For almost two decades, oil giant Chevron Corp.’s stubborn persistence in Venezuela looked like folly: with billion-dollar investments constantly under threat from the tug-of-war between Caracas and Washington, D.C.

Now, however, that strategy has placed the world’s biggest petroleum prize within Chevron’s reach.

As tensions mount ...Read more

A judge has cleared the way for the Georgia State Election Board to obtain Fulton County ballots and other documents from the 2020 election.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Friday ruled that the election board is well within its authority to request the information it has sought for more than a year. He ordered the county ...Read more