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In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week’s top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. — USA TODAY Opinion editors 1. January 6, 2025 could be the date American democracy dies. Mark it […]

Cruella de Vil's Hollywood history

(CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “This weekend poses the first real test of the summer box office,” Brian Lowry writes, “with a pair of complementary titles based on proven intellectual property: ‘A Quiet Place […]

Senate advances bipartisan bill to counter China

Fox News Flash top headlines for May 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The Senate on Thursday advanced a sweeping bipartisan bill that would bolster U.S. technology and scientific advancement in a bid to out-compete China. The Innovation and Competition Act of […]

Women could add $260 billion to Southeast Asia's e-commerce market by 2030, says gender expert

Women could add $260 billion to Southeast Asia's e-commerce market by 2030, according to a new report from the International Finance Corporation. The "anonymity" of e-commerce has reduced many of the barriers to entry faced by women Amy Luinstra, the IFC's gender program manager for East Asia and Pacific, told […]

New York City’s Rising Left Is Losing The Mayor’s Race

For several years now, New York City has been the beating heart of the American left ― a place that showed what was possible when progressive reformers, democratic socialists and Black Lives Matter activists actually gained power. Voters in the nation’s largest city sent Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman […]

Senate Republicans unveil $928B counteroffer to Biden spending plan

Pat Toomey ‘left with impression’ Biden will accept infrastructure counteroffer Pennsylvania Republican discusses how GOP suggests the infrastructure plan be paid for and proposed expansion of the IRS on ‘Kudlow’ A group of moderate Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a scaled-back infrastructure proposal worth close to $1 trillion, a counteroffer […]

Jim Jordan promises 'inside look' at GOP battles in recent years in new book

Jim Jordan sounds off on Biden’s ‘America last’ policy Ohio Republican lists everything that has risen in price since Biden took office A new book coming this autumn by Rep. Jim Jordan promises to give a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest moments for the Republican Party during Donald […]

Senate Republicans unveil latest counteroffer to Biden on infrastructure spending

A group of Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a $928 billion counteroffer to President Joe Biden’s plan on infrastructure spending, the latest attempt to make progress toward a bipartisan compromise just days before the president’s informal Memorial Day deadline. The package includes $506 billion for roads, bridges and major projects, […]

Membership of UK trade unions rises for fourth year in a row

Increase of 228,000 in public sector offset by decline of 110,000 among private sector workers Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 08.13 EDT Trade union membership in the UK has increased for the fourth year in a row, with official figures showing a rise of 118,000 during the severe […]

White House likely to dispute GOP plan to pay for its $1T infrastructure counter-offer

Pat Toomey ‘left with impression’ Biden will accept infrastructure counteroffer Pennsylvania Republican discusses how GOP suggests the infrastructure plan be paid for and proposed expansion of the IRS on ‘Kudlow’ Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Capito, W.Va., are set to unveil a $1T infrastructure proposal Thursday they say would be […]