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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s big tax write-off in the 1990s shows that he is best suited to reform America’s byzantine tax code. Mr. Christie, a former primary rival who who now leads the Trump campaign’s transition team, stressed that Mr. Trump followed the law and that

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is an “absolute genius” for claiming nearly $1 billion in deductions in a 1996 tax return that likely got him out of paying income taxes for years. “It shows you what a genius he is, how smart he is, how

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police shot and killed an armed suspect Saturday in South Los Angeles following the pursuit of what was believed to be a stolen-vehicle, authorities said. The events leading up to the shooting began about 1:40 p.m., when officers spotted a car with paper plates and tried to stop it, thinking

Police in the El Cajon suburb of San Diego have released a surveillance video from a local business that shows an unarmed Ugandan refugee being shot dead in a car park on Tuesday. As two police officers close in on Alfred Olango his sister Lisa Peterson, who is standing nearby, shouts: “Officer don’t shoot him!”

Newsweek said its website was knocked offline by hackers Thursday evening after it published an article accusing one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s companies of having violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Editor-in-chief Jim Impoco told reporters Friday that Newsweek’s website was unavailable for several hours the night before as the result of what