Independent UK - Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have now said that they would scrap taxes imposed on income from tips given to service industry workers.That doesn’t mean it is a guarantee to change under the next president.

The former president first pushed the idea at a rally in Las Vegas in June. The vice president did the same last night in the same city having been endorsed by the Culinary Union, which represents workers who would benefit most from such a policy.

Trump businesses gained $1.7 billion while he was president

Maggie Haberman &Jonathan, NY Times - Close Trump allies have described this as the rockiest period of Mr. Trump’s campaign — and easily the worst since a late 2022 spree in which he mused about terminating parts of the Constitution and dined at Mar-a-Lago with a white supremacist and an outspoken antisemite. Since then, Mr. Trump has picked fights with allies publicly and privately, including a broadside against Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia at an Atlanta rally — the kind of meanspirited public attack on a popular Republican that his own allies believe helped sink two Senate races in Georgia in January 2021 and could harm Mr. Trump in the state, a vital battleground in November. This story is based on interviews with more than a dozen people close to Mr. Trump, nearly all of whom insisted on anonymity to describe private discussions and events. MORE

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trump

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The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

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