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Washington The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore. Suddenly embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has denied the allegations, rebuffed suggestions that he resign and sent fundraising appeals that portray him as a victim of a “smear campaign.” He’s expected to make a high-profile appearance Friday at former President Donald Trump’s Doral golf club in Miami. The Republican congressman joins a growing list of politicians from both parties – almost exclusively men – who are defying the tr...

As stimulus checks from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill make their way to 160 million American households, many Republican voters are showing little enthusiasm for the extra money.  This marks the third time in a little over 12 months that Americans making less than $75,000 are receiving payments from the federal government. Last year, the $2.2 trillion CARES Act passed with near-unanimous support in Congress in the early weeks of the pandemic, winning approval from 79% of Republican and Democratic voters, according to a Gallup Poll.  Why We Wrote This Many...

The pandemic has upended a lot of accepted wisdom. Its latest victim is a long-standing piece of Western economic orthodoxy – that governments should stay out of the economy as much as possible. Today, big government is back, and with a vengeance. On both sides of the Atlantic, the authorities are drawing up ambitious post-pandemic recovery plans and pouring trillions of dollars into their implementation. Why We Wrote This Over the past half-century, most Western governments have shrunk their ambitions and handed the economic initiative to private enterprise. But the pandemic has changed al...

1. United States Virginia has joined three other states in banning cosmetics testing on animals. Companies often test new cosmetics on rabbits, mice, and other animals to ensure they’re safe for human use. Animal advocates say these methods are cruel and unnecessary, considering all the alternative ways to test the effects of moisturizers, makeup, and other cosmetic items. The Humane Cosmetics Act, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022, prohibits cosmetics companies from testing on animals and bans the sale of products tested elsewhere on animals. California, Nevada, and Illinois have similar...

Proponents of the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran could find encouragement in the agreement this week by both the United States and Iran that they would enter into talks aimed at a return to compliance. But now the hard work begins. For Iran, that means reversing steps it took after then-President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 – from ramping up uranium enrichment and stockpiling to installing more sophisticated centrifuges. On the U.S. side, it will entail a substantial undoing of the maze of more than 1,500 sanctions and punitive designations that the Trump administration sl...