It's official: Members of Congress won't get a pay bump this year

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House Speaker Mike Johnson
The bill to reopen the government kept lawmakers' salaries frozen at $174,000 a figure that hasn't budged since 2009.

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Donald Trump says he's ordering DOJ probes into JPMorgan Chase and business leaders' ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at a party at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.

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Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show

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Kathryn Ruemmler, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, maintained a correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein after leaving the Obama White House.

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A Republican lawmaker drove his motorcycle back to Washington, DC, saying 'flights are too unreliable'

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin said he was driving his motorcycle to get back to Washington D.C.

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Meet Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's 32-year-old grandson, who just announced he's running for Congress

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Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

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Mass delays and stranded travelers: Photos capture airport chaos amid the longest government shutdown in US history

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US travelers have experienced mass delays and sudden cancellations as the government shutdown goes on.

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Treasury Secretary Bessent says Trump wants to lower coffee and banana prices 'very quickly'

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will take action to lower the prices of goods not grown in the US

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12 times Melania Trump broke White House traditions and defied expectations of the first lady role

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MANHATTAN, NY - NOVEMBER 11: The 1st Lady Melania Trump looks on during President Donald J. Trumps address of the crowd for the opening ceremony of the 100th annual Veterans Day Parade. The Presidential Address was held in Madison Square Park in the Manhattan borough of New York on November 11, 2019, USA.

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Zohran Mamdani's most popular policy proposal is raising taxes on millionaires and corporations, new poll finds

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Mamdani's most popular proposal, according to the poll, is raising taxes on millionaires and corporations.

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Trump wants to issue $2,000 tariff checks. He can't do that by himself.

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Both the House and the Senate would need to approve any tariff-based checks from the government. Many in the GOP have already said they're opposed.

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