The Republican budget package aims to make President Donald Trump’s tax cuts permanent while offering a host of new financial breaks. Yet the “big, beautiful bill,” as the legislation is dubbed, could also effectively transfer wealth from younger generations to older Americans over their lifetimes, a recent study finds.  Long-term, the primary …

Washington — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was taken to the hospital and treated for dehydration on Wednesday “out of an abundance of caution,” a spokesperson for his office said.  The New York Democrat, 74, was at the Senate gym in Washington while an extreme heat advisory was in effect.  …

The U.S. military strikes in Iran are raising questions about the impact on supplies of oil and gas, including whether the widening conflict could result in higher energy prices for Americans.  The price of the West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, jumped 4% on Sunday night shortly after the …

London — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. Brown, 36, wearing a blue suit, white shirt and black-rimmed glasses, pleaded not guilty in Southwark Crown Court to …

President Trump appeared to mark Juneteenth on Thursday with a Truth Social post arguing the United States has “too many non-working holidays.”  “It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday …

President Trump said Tuesday that he won’t call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers because it would “waste time.” One of the lawmakers and her husband were killed. The president spoke to reporters early Tuesday aboard Air Force One as he flew back to …

Washington — President Trump plans to go the Iowa State Fairgrounds this summer, according to sources familiar with the plan, revisiting a presidential campaign site in a state that helped deliver his return to the White House. Dates were still being discussed for Mr. Trump’s visit, seen as an effort …

A senior Indian police official told the country’s national news agency ANI on Thursday that one person — a man who was in seat 11A on the doomed Air India flight to London that crashed soon after takeoff in the city of Ahmedabad — survived the catastrophe. Air India later …

In an unusual pairing, beer maker Blue Moon and personal care product company eos have teamed up to create a new orange-flavored lip balm. The Valencia Orange Lip Balm debuted Tuesday and is available exclusively on Blue Moon and eos’ websites. It comes in a round shell typical of eos’ …

In April 1975, during the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, there were some 3,000 babies in the country that had been fathered by U.S. servicemen.  “Dad felt very responsibly that he wanted to get those babies out,” Steve Ford told CBS News — “dad” in this case being …