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The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining six years of tax returns from former president Donald Trump and his eponymous real estate businesses after the ex-president requested an emergency stay of a lower court order allowing them access to the documents. The temporary stay was granted by Chief Justice John Roberts, who is responsible for appeals of decisions from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Chief Justice Roberts also ordered the House of Representatives to respond to the ex-president's appeal by 10 November. The temporary reprieve for Mr Trump comes after lawyers for the twice-impeached former president filed an emergency appeal in which they claimed that allowing the Department of the Treasury to follow US law by turning over six years of his tax returns at the request of House Ways and Means chairman Ritchie Neal, a Democrat, would "undermine the separation of powers and render the office of the Presidency vulnerable to invasive information demands from political opponents in the legislative branch". |
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| Representatives have confirmed the death of Migos rapper after a shooting at a bowling alley |
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| Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded guilty to leading battalion and training young women to fight with guns, grenades and suicide devices |
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| Billionaire says that verification would be 'price-adjusted by country' |
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| Her Democratic challenger has been earning support from unlikely sources as he climbs the polls and rakes in donations |
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Why isn't Covid an issue during this year's midterms? |
Between right now and Election Day on 8 November, the total number of Americans dead from Covid-19 could rise by another 4,700 people. If current trends hold, every week, about as many Americans will be killed by Covid as died during the 9/11 attacks. The latter tragedy defined an era of US and global politics, but the rolling crisis of Covid seems to have faded into the background politically this midterm season, thanks to a mixture of lukewarm public health messaging, fatigue among the public and a deeper, baked-in political dysfunction and shallowness in Washington, DC. It is a dynamic that leaves those still suffering from Covid, or those most at risk of catching it, feeling like they have to fend for themselves. People are still dying and matters of great importance are still being decided about coronavirus but, if you looked at the headlines, you would scarcely know it. |
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– The percentage of Kyiv residents who are said to be without water as a result of Russian missile strikes after Vladimir Putin stepped up his assault on the Ukrainian capital city on Monday. |
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| "They thought we were so slow, that we were so stupid that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken black man. As opposed to somebody who was educated and erudite and focused." |
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