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Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate saw moderate Democrats battle with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over their proposals for a wealth tax. Both Warren and Sanders have issued plans to heavily tax the rich in order to address inequality and pay for new social programs — and some of their Democratic rivals said they…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are fueling their presidential campaigns by generating anger toward the wealthy. Warren is blasting America’s “extreme concentration of wealth,” while Sanders is condemning wealth inequality as “outrageous” and “grotesque.” Both want to hammer the rich with a new annual wealth tax. Moderate candidates on the debate…

By Howard SchneiderOctober 17, 2019 By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From 1982 to 2018 the share of U.S. wealth held by the 400 richest Americans is estimated to have grown from 1% to around 3.5%, or probably around $3 trillion. According to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the University of California at Berkeley economists…

CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson asked the city’s police department to conduct an internal investigation on himself Thursday after he was found lying down in a car. A passerby found Johnson early Thursday in a car parked near a stop sign and called 911. Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Yashunn Hale isn’t sure he would call the police to report a crime. Not since an officer killed Hale’s neighbor in her home. Residents of Atatiana Jefferson’s Fort Worth neighborhood said they were hesitant to dial 911 even before a white officer shot the 28-year-old black woman through a bedroom…

YouTube/The Dallas Morning News Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed in her home on Saturday by Aaron Dean, a white Fort Worth police officer who has since resigned from the force and been charged with murder. A neighbor had called a non-emergency line to say Jefferson’s front door was left open, and asked police to do a…

This article, Woman rescued after drawing SOS message in Australian wilderness, originally appeared on CBSNews.com After being lost in the wilderness for three days, an Australian woman was rescued after the SOS message she scrawled in the sand was spotted on a surveillance camera. Deborah Pilgrim, 55, was camping with friends last weekend when she…

The Trump administration says the decision to host the 2020 G-7 Summit at the president’s golf club, Trump National Doral Miami in Florida, will save taxpayers money and poses no conflict of interest. “The president has made it clear since he’s been here that he hasn’t profited since he’s been here,” said Mick Mulvaney, acting…

Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine until it looked into the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukrainian nationals were in possession of a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee. Asked why the administration had withheld $400 million in military aid allocated by Congress to…

A police officer searching Natalie Simms for illegal drugs told her to spread her legs on the side of a San Antonio street. To Simms’ shock, she said in a federal lawsuit, the female officer then shined a flashlight into her underwear, reached in and pulled out her tampon. On Thursday, the city of San…