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Donald Trump won’t release any new tax information in response to revelations that he claimed a massive tax loss in 1995 that potentially allowed him to eliminate his federal income-tax bill for almost two decades, according to two people familiar with the campaign’s thinking. The New York Times reported late Saturday that the Republican presidential…
Politics Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video Trump’s Tax Records The New York Times obtained records from 1995 showing that Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss. The figure is so substantial that it could have allowed him…
The wistful refrain among religionists has for some time now been the same: the religiously unaffiliated will return to religious practice one of these days. New numbers from a survey jointly conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service, however, might crush whatever hope is left about luring Nones back into the…
At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.” “Where did you find this?”…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a case of the sniffles during the first presidential debate on Sept. 26 – so we put them all in one supercut, with a few of his interruptions for good measure. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) I have taken the liberty of abridging the debate in case you were one of…
Democrats woke up on Monday to a spate of bad polls for Hillary Clinton, which brought Donald Trump to perhaps his closest position yet in the Electoral College. They had reason to go to bed feeling a lot better. Clinton bested Trump in the first presidential debate according to a variety of metrics, and the…
“We’re very worried his campaign will be meeting tomorrow and say, ‘What’s a way we can get out of these last two debates?’ ” Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told NBC News on Tuesday. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a close Trump advisor, on Monday night floated the idea of Trump…
Photo: Ken Gillespie Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. Dear Polly, I’m writing to you because I feel like I’ve been working SO hard on self-acceptance and loving my rougher edges and thought I was making real progress — but somehow I keep finding myself stuck in the same hole as always. I don’t know what…
Garment District ClosingsView Full Caption GARMENT DISTRICT — A trio of longtime fabric stores on West 39th Street will close by the end of the year — and a fourth will leave its longtime storefront — as Garment District landlords set their sights on higher-paying nightlife tenants, owners and real estate experts said. Paron Fabrics at 257 W. 39th…
F your “F” When I was 32 I was diagnosed with a massive learning disability. It took eight weeks of intense, tiring, embarrassing testing and observation. When my assessment advisor stepped into his office to deliver my results he opened a fat file, pulled out a report and asked me what I wanted to hear first:…