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Federal firefighters could see bigger paychecks next year

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House appropriators are taking steps that could give federal firefighters a permanent pay raise. Fiscal 2025 spending legislation advanced this week, and it includes about 300 million dollars to boost pay for firefighters working at the Interior Department and the Forest Service. Although House Democrats opposed many of the GOP’s proposed spending cuts, they came out in favor of the pay raise for the frontline workers. Federal firefighters currently have a temporary pay boost, but many advocates have been pushing to make the raise permanent. (House Appropriations Committee – Fiscal…

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Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling May Be Bigger Than You Think

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One of the more interesting, but less reported, aspects of the Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark affirmative action case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard was its criticism of universities’ racial categories in admissions policies. That critique opens a new way to challenge racial discrimination in court. Lawyers and litigants who care about racial equality should take full advantage of it. The high court’s perspective on racial categories arose out of what is known among lawyers as “the diversity rationale,” which comes from a 1978 opinion by Justice Lewis…

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4 Problems With Left’s Hypocritical Plan to Give Wealthy Constituents a Bigger SALT Deduction

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Liberal legislators in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California seem determined to make sure that their own high-income constituents pay for as little of their big spending plan as possible. Recently, the House of Representatives passed the largest expansion of means-tested welfare spending in U.S. history, along with hundreds of billions of new corporate welfare. In addition to about $ 2 trillion of new taxes in the bill, fully funding the so-called Build Back Better Act would require multitrillion-dollar tax increases in the future. Members of congress…

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Trump Says His ‘Nuclear Button’ Is ‘Much Bigger’ Than North Korea’s – New York Times

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New York Times Trump Says His 'Nuclear Button' Is 'Much Bigger' Than North Korea'sNew York TimesWASHINGTON — President Trump again raised the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea, boasting in strikingly playground terms on Tuesday night that he commands a “much bigger” and “more powerful” arsenal of devastating weapons than the outlier …Trump tweets about nuclear war with North Korea – CNNPoliticsCNN Trump to North Korean leader Kim: My 'Nuclear Button' is 'much bigger & more powerful'Washington PostAmerica's UN ambassador dismisses proposed North-South Korea talksThe GuardianNEWS.com.au –The Australian –New York Daily…

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