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November 12, 2019 at 2:08 pm

Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power

ISTANBUL — Behind President Donald Trump’s accommodating attitude toward Turkey is an unusual back channel: a trio of sons-in-law who married into power and now...

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FILE — Work on a parking garage next to the Preston, a luxury apartment development in a new opportunity zone in Houston on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. Much of the opportunity-zone money has gone to projects that were already planned in gentrifying neighborhoods in places like Houston. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times) XNYT17 XNYT17

November 6, 2019 at 10:36 am

Lawmakers increase criticism of ‘opportunity zone’ tax break

Lawmakers are voicing mounting concerns about a federal tax incentive, known as an “opportunity zone,” that is supposed to encourage investors to pump money into...

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October 20, 2019 at 6:31 pm

Why Trump Dropped His Idea to Hold the G7 at His Own Hotel

He knew he was inviting criticism by choosing his own luxury golf club in Miami for the site of a gathering of world leaders at...

Nation & World

October 11, 2019 at 6:26 pm

Those Foreign Business Ties? The Trump Sons Have Plenty Too

Last month, the Trump family business received approval from a local government in Scotland for a major expansion of its golf resort near Aberdeen, marking...

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August 31, 2019 at 11:11 am

How a tax break to help poor communities became a bonanza for the rich

NEW ORLEANS — President Donald Trump has portrayed U.S. cities as wastelands, ravaged by crime and homelessness, infested by rats. But the Trump administration’s signature...

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June 2, 2019 at 5:20 pm

For the Chao family, deep ties to the world’s 2 largest economies

The family of Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary and wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the Senate majority leader, has high-level political connections not...

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June 2, 2019 at 5:19 pm

Chao a ‘bridge’ to China and her family’s business, in the Trump Cabinet VIEW

The email arrived in Washington before dawn. An official at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was urgently seeking advice from the State Department about an...

Nation & World

August 24, 2018 at 4:09 pm

EPA proposal would let dirtiest coal plants keep spewing pollutants

Industry lawyers and former federal officials say the policy shift is one of the most consequential pieces of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, made public...

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July 15, 2018 at 6:19 pm

Tracing Guccifer 2.0’s many tentacles in the 2016 election

The filed Friday by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, provides never-before-seen detail of how the Russian cyberspies operated, based on intercepts that had to have...

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at the Vatican in June. MUST CREDIT: Photo courtesy of Environmental Protection Agency 126.0.7372410

July 5, 2018 at 6:18 pm

EPA aide questioned deleting Pruitt meeting details, then was fired

An aide to Scott Pruitt lost her job this past year, according to a former senior staffer, after objecting that the changes to official calendars...

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