The Pentagon is working to make Trump’s vision of a U.S. ‘Iron Dome’ a reality

Defense Department officials will soon brief President Donald Trump on a variety of options for him to fulfill his pledge to protect the United States with something modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense, according to U.S. officials and experts familiar with the initiative. Like former President Ronald Reagan’s push for the Strategic Defense Initiative,…

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Trump administration plans to end IRS Direct File for free tax filing, sources say

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision. The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical. But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation…

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Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn’t heard from Trump since arson attack

After a man tried to assassinate Donald Trump in July at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the state’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, quickly issued a statement condemning the attempt on the Republican presidential candidate’s life. “Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable,” Shapiro posted on X that day. “It has…

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