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Editorial This should be the year a pair of campus-safety bills finally reach the governor’s desk and become law.  Michael A. Cohen Will they support a candidate who minces no words and pushes a sweeping platform of political change?  Weld, who served as Massachusetts governor from 1991 to 1997, announced Monday that he would become the first — and possibly only — primary challenger to President Trump.  They’re doing all right. More than all right, in fact.

Editorial This should be the year a pair of campus-safety bills finally reach the governor’s desk and become law.  Michael A. Cohen Will they support a candidate who minces no words and pushes a sweeping platform of political change?  Weld, who served as Massachusetts governor from 1991 to 1997, announced Monday that he would become the first — and possibly only — primary challenger to President Trump.  They’re doing all right. More than all right, in fact.

House Democrats on Monday reportedly subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and several other banks, asking for information about MORE's finances as well as the dealings between the banks and Russia.   The New York Times, citing several people with knowledge of the investigation, reported that the subpoenas were issued by the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees.  The subpoenas represent the latest attempts by Democrats in Congress to investigate the personal finance

Republicans and Democrats on Monday used Tax Day to drive home their arguments about MORE’s 2017 law, as millions more Americans are poised to soon find out whether they personally benefited from the tax overhaul. Trump and Republicans spent the day praising their tax-code rewrite and linked it to growth in the economy and wages. “We promised that these tax cuts would be rocket fuel for the American economy, and we were absolutely right,” Trump said at a roundtable with business owners and employees in Burnsville, Minn. Democrats, meanwhile, argued that the law has be

Sen. recent acknowledgement that sales of his book have made him a millionaire.

In 2017, Sanders and his wife had adjusted gross income of $1,131,925 and an effective tax rate of 30.4 percent. In 2016, they had adjusted gross income $1,062,626 and an effective tax rate of 35 percent.

The fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is now reportedly under control, and several key relics and pieces of art have been saved. A spokesman for the Paris police told CNN on Monday evening that responders have controlled the fire, which started earlier Monday and engulfed much of the building.  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also said in a tweet that "the Crown of Thorns, the Tunic of Saint Louis and several other major works" had been saved from the fire, according to CNN. "Thanks to the @Po

House Democrats rallied behind Rep. MORE escalated his attacks suggesting the freshman lawmaker downplayed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It’s a change from past controversies involving Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Fellow Democrats who rebuked her in recent weeks for comments viewed as anti-Semitic are now rushing to her defense. “There have been occasions when she's made comments that she's apologized for that were inartful or that were taken as anti-Semitic.

Worse still, at least for a political party consumed and obsessed with identity politics, the top two white guys, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Vice President Joe Biden, are old white guys.

“According to the national survey of 102 Certified Public Accountants—representing over 5,500 small business pass through clients across the U.S.—conducted by Research Strategy Group International, nearly 80 percent of respondents believe that the implementation of the tax cuts legislation has helped America’s small businesses,” the pro-small business organization said in a statement timed for tax day.

Faced with a massive and growing crisis of 100,000 illegal immigrants storming the border every month, Mr. Trump must decide what to do with all these people who have discovered the giant Trojan horse that is America’s immigration system. Cross the border, claim asylum, get a court date, be set free and vanish into the interior of the country — never to show up for that court date.