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From Biden’s ‘war’ on gas prices to ‘small price to pay’: GOP shifts tone as Iran conflict hits pumps

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans sharply criticized former President Joe Biden over rising prices at the gas pump, but a spike in energy prices amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran threatens to scramble the party’s affordability messaging. The Iran conflict has led to a surge in gas prices for Americans, leading … Read more

Trump urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act, fully fund DHS as TSA workers go without pay

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act (SAA) as well as restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as more than 100,000 federal employees go without pay during a prolonged funding lapse, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.  … Read more

Sen Cory Booker proposes ‘Keep Your Pay Act,’ eliminating federal income tax on first $75,000

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., facing a re-election campaign in 2026, announced a new tax-cut bill, the Keep Your Pay Act, that would eliminate federal income taxes on the first $75,000 of income for most households and expand key tax credits for working families. Booker’s plan increases the … Read more

Live Nation to open Ticketmaster to other sellers and pay $280 million to settle antitrust charges

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Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has reached a deal with the Department of Justice to settle charges that the entertainment company’s dominance in the event ticket business undermined competition and hurt consumers. Under the settlement, Live Nation agreed to pay $280 million in civil penalties to 40 states that sued the company over … Read more

Politicians are starting to pay a lot more attention to the plight of white-collar workers

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Blue-collar workers have been at the center of political messaging for years. Politicians meet with waitresses at a diner to pitch raising the minimum wage, tour a factory to spotlight job growth or tell stories of their family’s hardscrabble bona fides while visiting cities like Detroit or Pittsburgh. Lately, though, a different group has been … Read more

Dealing with Iran war is ‘easy,’ Trump says. College athlete pay? Not so much

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that questions about the war in Iran were “easy” compared to efforts to better regulate college sports and rein in high salaries for football players — an extraordinary suggestion that even he himself seemed to think better of a short time later. Trump convened a roundtable of experts … Read more

Crockett’s likely House successor is radical reparations activist: ‘Gotta pay us what you owe us’

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jasmine Crockett’s pastor, Frederick Haynes III, who announced his bid to take over Crockett’s House seat shortly after she announced her now-failed bid for the U.S. Senate, won the Democratic primary for Texas’s 30th Congressional District and will likely win in November due to the district being … Read more

Rising energy prices from the Iran war could help Russia pay for fighting in Ukraine

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FRANKFURT, Germany — FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Iran war’s disruption of Middle East oil and gas supplies and soaring prices are strengthening Russia’s ability to profit from its energy exports, a pillar of the Kremlin’s budget and a key to paying for its own war in Ukraine. Prices for Russia’s oil exports have risen … Read more

Virginia Democrats talk affordability — and vote to nearly triple their own pay

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Virginia State Senate and its Democratic majority may have voted themselves a nearly 300% pay increase if a provision inserted into their final budget survives the House reconciliation process and reaches Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk. The development comes as Spanberger has centered her campaign on “affordability,” … Read more