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Reeves pushes income tax elimination, opposes Medicaid expansion in State of the State address

Jan. 30, 2025 10:57 AM EST

Amid a likely debate between Mississippi House and Senate leaders over plans to slash state taxes, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in his Wednesday State-of-the-State Address strongly encouraged the Legislature to pass a law that abolishes the state income tax. “This money does not...

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?

Jan. 09, 2025 13:08 PM EST

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you consider Meta's decision to end a fact-checking program on social media apps...

Veteran Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto leaving after 28 years

Dec. 19, 2024 17:58 PM EST

Neil Cavuto, a business journalist at Fox News Channel whose weekday afternoon news show frequently annoyed President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, left the network after 28 years following a final show on Thursday. A workhorse who had been with Fox since its inception in...

Jill Biden says she has closed the book on teaching at Northern Virginia Community College

Dec. 17, 2024 15:01 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has closed the book on her teaching career at a Virginia community college. The first lady, who has spent the past 40 years teaching in classrooms, announced Monday that she had taught her final class at Northern Virginia Community College last week....

Unique among 'Person of the Year' designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine

Dec. 13, 2024 23:35 PM EST

Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview. The fact-check accompanies a transcript of what the president-elect told the newsmagazine's journalists. Described as a...