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President-elect Donald Trump’s tax plans could be complicated as Congress debates competing priorities in 2025. Here’s what to know.

The House Ethics Committee has records showing Matt Gaetz allegedly paid more than $10,000 to two women who later testified in front of the panel, ABC News has learned.

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the process on track, WTTW News and ProPublica found.

The US president-elect’s choice for education secretary is the WWE co-founder, and his new health pick is a former TV doctor.

At least four of the president-elect’s top picks to lead his government have been accused of sexual assault, harassment or child sex trafficking.

President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said.

Eight years ago, after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the mood in Moscow was one of lucky disbelief. In Donald Trump, Russian officials saw a transactional businessman who spoke in the language of national interests, not values—Vladimir Putin’s kind of leader.

Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin. (The third volume is forthcoming.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In recent years, the Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics.

This is some bullshit — but not surprising in the least. America shows us time and time again who and what it is. Sometimes it subtly whispers what it thinks of people like me (and probably you).