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Treasure Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) really got into it during a hearing on Tuesday.    Mnuchin wanted to leave and attend another “important” meeting and he vowed to not return to the committee for a planned hearing in May if it didn’t adjourn in time.  “If you’d wish to…

Twitter removed President Donald Trump’s recent 2020 campaign video early Wednesday, after Warner Bros. Pictures said it filed a copyright infringement complaint for “unauthorized” use of music from “The Dark Knight Rises.” Trump’s tweet, uploaded Tuesday afternoon, includes a two-minute dramatic trailer-like video that uses music from the studio’s 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises.”…

WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration and its defenders in Congress argue that Democrats are breaking the rules in seeking the president’s private tax information. “We should not be in a situation where individual private tax returns are used for political purposes,” Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s private attorneys, said Sunday on ABC News’ “This…

DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki scored a season-high 30 points and then announced his retirement in the 40-year-old’s final home game, a 120-109 victory for the Dallas Mavericks over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night. Nowitzki told the crowd, “As you might expect, this is my last home game.” That was after speeches from Larry…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Tuesday that he would be releasing 10 years’ worth of tax returns before Tax Day, when 2019 tax filings are due, arrives next week. In an interview with The New York Times, Sanders, a strong contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, suggested that his tax returns would show that…

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s blunt suggestion last week that the United States is too “full” to accommodate migrants isn’t shared by lawmakers from some of the least populated areas of the country, who maintain that lawful immigrants are more than welcome in their states.  “I don’t think the country’s full. We’ve got a lot…

Perhaps Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) should have waited for all the points to be counted. The conservative lawmaker tweeted a selfie Monday from the NCAA championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, noting that Texas Tech held a 1-point lead with 35 seconds left in regulation. But his Twitter cheerleading wasn’t appreciated by Tech…

Norway and the United States ― both among the world’s top oil and gas producers ― are taking radically different steps, just days apart, in response to industry pressure.  Over the weekend, politicians in Norway dealt a major blow to their country’s powerful oil industry when the opposition Labor Party — Norway’s biggest political group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers’ president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman and beloved former player before taking charge of this tempestuous franchise just over two years ago. Johnson didn’t tell owner Jeanie…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared poised to win the country’s national election and secure a record fifth term in office Wednesday after months of scrambling to remain in power by striking deals with far-right extremists, promoting conspiracy theories, sidling up to authoritarian leaders and promising new restrictions on Palestinian rights. The race was incredibly tight and Netanyahu…