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President Trump on Friday publicly softened his private push on House Republicans to raise taxes on wealthy people and scrap a tax break that benefits private equity executives as part of a megabill to carry out his agenda.“The problem with even a ‘TINY’ tax increase for the RICH, which I and all others would graciously accept in order to help the lower and middle income workers, is that the Radical Left Democrat Lunatics would go around screaming, ‘Read my lips,’ the fabled Quote by George Bush the Elder that is said to have cost him the Election,” Mr. Trump wrote…

Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, an 81-year-old resident of Ossining, N.Y., believes the $10,000 cap should go up — but not too much. While Mr. Randers-Pehrson, a retired research scientist, said he paid $16,000 in state and local taxes last year, he does not expect to personally benefit from a higher cap. He would take the standard deduction instead of itemizing. But the issue still bothers him.“I don’t think we should punish areas that try to do right by the municipal services they provide,” he said. His congressman, Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican and one of the holdouts on the issue, has proposed…

From Fort Lauderdale to Houston, a new movement invites America to reclaim joy and connection—one Friday at a time. Austin, United States, May 9, 2025 — In a culture that often glamorizes hustle and burnout, The Play Hooky Experience offers something radically different: permission to pause. Officially launching May 23, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, this immersive tour re-imagines what it means to “take a day off” by turning it into a moment of collective healing, vibrant connection, and pure, unapologetic joy. Founded by DJ, entrepreneur, and community builder Darryl “FollowtheDj” Dungee, the Play Hooky Experience is part festival, part wellness…

Good morning. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.! We drove down for a wedding and ate all over town, cosmic kids in full costume dress.There was exceptional pizza from Talula’s on Cookman Avenue, and a fine pork roll, egg and cheese on an everything from Bagels International in Bradley Beach the morning after. We housed an Italian sub from Della Cucina in Toms River for lunch, went to the beach for the ceremony, had a huge spread at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch afterward and slept like kittens.We rounded out the proceedings with another pork roll, egg and cheese for…

Engine Capital said on Friday it would end its activist campaign at Lyft and withdraw its board nominees after the ride-hailing platform raised its stock buyback program to the level proposed by the investor.It is one of the rare instances of an activist campaign ending within weeks when proxy battles typically run for months. Lyft’s shares rose about 17 per cent in early trading after the company increased its stock buyback program on Thursday to $750 million from $500 million, and said it intends to use $500 million of the authorization within the next 12 months.”Following a series of productive…

[KUALA LUMPUR] Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is giving President Donald Trump three months before his fellow Americans force him to rethink his stringent global tariff strategy, accusing the US leader of “living in an old world”.Speaking to AFP in an interview two months ahead of his 100th birthday, the plain-speaking Mahathir said: “Trump will find that his tariffs are hurting America, and the people in America will end up against him.”The US president’s stop-start tariff rollout will hit Asian nations hard – including Malaysia, which faces a 24 per cent levy in July unless the two countries can…

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 6, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Friday tepidly backed the idea of raising taxes on the richest Americans, while openly wrestling with the politics of such a move and suggesting that his fellow Republicans should “probably” oppose it.Trump’s public deliberation on social media came after he reached out to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., about adding a tax hike on the highest earners to the major tax and spending bill…

LAST weekend in Washington, near the White House, dozens of economists from universities and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathered to discuss the state of “geoeconomics”.Geo-what? some readers might ask. No wonder: until recently, this word was little used, since it seemed at odds with modern norms.That is because the phrase describes how governments can use economic and financial policies to play power games. But in the 20th century free-market intellectual framework – which is the one in which most Western professionals built their careers – it was generally assumed that rational economic self-interest ruled the roost,…

A second group of nine companies has received letters from the General Services Administration asking them to participate in a review what the agency has identified as consulting contracts.Those letters signed by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum asks the companies to provide detailed input on their contracts, broken down by agency and category of services. The companies also need to provide pricing information.“We intend to use this input as a scorecard to compare your perspective both against our government-wide review as well as against those submitted by other consulting firms,” Gruenbaum wrote in the letter sent within the past week.This ask…