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Who gets to tax digital giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon? As nations clamor for a share, an effort is under way to reach a global compromise. https://t.co/Sn9GGCQZ2P
Aipac, the pro-Israel lobby, raises more than $100 million a year, which it spends on lobbying politicians for U.S. aid and sending members of Congress to Israel https://t.co/uHWU5QRga3
Among William Barr’s likely first tasks as attorney general: Wrestling with whether to release the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation. https://t.co/X20nQc7A8V
China is counting on promises of big purchases of semiconductors and other U.S. goods to persuade Trump to extend a tariff truce and later resolve the dispute directly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping https://t.co/3pafLmuqZ8
You say KUH-ma-la, I say Ka-MILLA. We’re both saying Sen. Kamala Harris’s name wrong. Presidential candidates hear their names butchered. https://t.co/KaI3ouNSId
Two proposals in Congress would increase oversight of White House trade actions under a decades-old national-security provision. https://t.co/aR0fSxuhnf
There are currently 30 national emergencies in effect, according to the Congressional Research Service, including those related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Iraq war. https://t.co/xPSutrofld
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from asking about citizenship on the 2020 census, saying Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to add the question broke the law https://t.co/f1JuY5MZ0m
