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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner on Monday, setting up a showdown over the first blockbuster acquisition to be considered by the Trump administration and drawing limits on corporate power in the fast-evolving media landscape. By challenging the deal, the Justice Department is taking an approach to antitrust issues that i

The tax plan advanced by House Republicans last week will spur economic growth, but still add more than $1 trillion to the deficit, according to a new study released Monday. The macroeconomic analysis from the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, finds that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would boost economic output by .6 percent of gross domestic product in 2018, and .3 percent in a decade. The ec

President Donald Trump and the father of one of the UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting in China have become engaged in a so-called war of words. Last week LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA players, Cody Riley and Jaden Hill, were detained in Shanghai after an incident that involved stealing a pair of sunglasses from a Xi Jinping. Here's how the fallout unfolded. "Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President T

President Donald Trump's namesake charitable foundation is being shut down, in keeping with previously announced plans. In a filing with the IRS last week, the foundation said it intends to dissolve and is seeking approval to distribute its remaining funds.

Travels by Trump campaign adviser Donald Trump’s candidacy. Though characterized as a low-level volunteer, Page held high-level foreign policy meetings with Hungarian officials before the 2016 presidential election, ABC News has learned. The meetings included a 45-minute session in September 2016 with Jeno Megyesy, who is a close adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and focuses on relations with the United States, at his office in Budapest, where Page presented himself as a member of then-candidate Trump

A woman says Minnesota State Fair, the second allegation of improper conduct against the Democrat and first involving his time as a senator. Lindsay Menz told CNN last week for a report broadcast Monday that the interaction with the Minnesota senator made her feel "gross." She said she immediately told her husband that Franken had "grabbed" her bottom and that she posted about it on Facebook. Menz's story comes days after a Los Angeles broadcaster, Leeann Tweeden, accused Franken of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour.

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capital source The unfolding race to succeed outgoing US Representative Niki Tsongas in the Third Congressional District has created a web of odd alliances and pitted former colleagues in arms against one another.   capital source A host of other party leaders are now calling for Roy Moore to be barred from the Senate if he’s elected.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Wednesday, the council’s first meeting since the Nov.

Governor Charlie Baker is set to sign into law a bill that would mandate many Massachusetts women receive free access to contraceptives.   Massachusetts correctional institutions have long resisted providing methadone or Suboxone, but both the House and Senate criminal justice bills would require it.   KEVIN CULLEN Even while Al Franken’s politics are often mine, I’m uncomfortable with his defenders pointing at other people’s behavior to minimize his.  Lynch did not stand during the US national anthem during Sunday’s game in Mexico City, but stood for the Mexican anthem.

Governor Charlie Baker is set to sign into law a bill that would mandate many Massachusetts women receive free access to contraceptives.   Massachusetts correctional institutions have long resisted providing methadone or Suboxone, but both the House and Senate criminal justice bills would require it.   KEVIN CULLEN Even while Al Franken’s politics are often mine, I’m uncomfortable with his defenders pointing at other people’s behavior to minimize his.  Lynch did not stand during the US national anthem during Sunday’s game in Mexico City, but stood for the Mexican anthem.