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President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now working its way through Congress, permanently extends tax cuts ...

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Cops from the sticks are finding ways to slap charges on Chinese who have never once come within a thousand miles of their ...

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The European Sex Workers Rights Alliance says that Sweden’s new law “will further isolate sex workers, particularly migrants ...

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