For eight decades, Henri Mignon has viewed Americans as heroes. They twice liberated his tiny Belgian hometown, Houffalize, from German occupation — the second time, he said, when he was 8 years old, mere hours after shrapnel from shelling had killed his father. The image of U.S. troops handing out gum to local children is
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and more than doubled the federal estate tax exemption rate for married couples, from $11 million to $27 million. An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee of Taxation found that beginning in 2027, lower-
President Donald Trump, with the stroke of a pen, signed an executive order this week to begin the longstanding conservative goal of demolishing the Department of Education. “Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making,” Trump said at a White House signing ceremony. “It’s about time.” Trump has been
Americans are making too many solo dinner reservations. That was one takeaway from the annual World Happiness Report, which was released on Thursday and showed that the United States had dipped to its lowest slot in the country rankings — 24th — after being ranked as high as 11th in 2012, the first year of
When Haneen Mahbuba saw the news of the deadly Israeli missile strikes on Gaza this week, she found herself so crestfallen that she struggled to breathe. “Suddenly, it felt like I was suffocating,” Ms. Mahbuba said. While taking in what had happened from her Detroit-area home, she saw a photo of a child maimed by
Both Irish and non-Irish people around the world are celebrating St Patrick’s Day today – but despite the holiday being a time for celebration, it has exposed a bitter divide among people who call themselves Irish. This weekend and today, revellers in America donned their finest green outfits and took to the streets to celebrate
There was frustration, fury and disappointment on Tuesday night after the Trump administration dropped the latest top secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The much-anticipated documents were published on the website of the National Archives. It came roughly 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced a trove of 80,000 pages of material would
Amber Walliser A few days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, Amber Walliser stocked up, spending $2,000 (£1,538) on appliances she believed would get more expensive as the White House started to put new taxes on imports But that was a temporary splurge. These days, her family is buckling down, worried about job
The guards wore name tags that read “Hitler” and “Demon” and covered their faces with ski masks. The Americans in the Venezuelan prison were confined to cement cells, beaten, pepper-sprayed and subjected to what one prisoner called “psychological torture.” Three months into their capture, the Americans were so filled with anger that they rebelled. They
Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government but are far from thrilled with how billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are carrying out cuts to the federal bureaucracy, according to new national polling. President Donald Trump, after winning back the White House in last November’s election, created DOGE with