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Trump’s $5,000 dividend would reignite inflation and swell the U.S. deficit, economists say

President Trump’s vow to send $5,000 to every U.S. adult if the Republican Party keeps control of Congress in the midterm elections would drive up the federal deficit, reignite inflation and alarm investors, according to economists. After Mr. Trump raised the idea of such a dividend on Wednesday night at the Republican National Committee’s midterm…

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What’s happening at Big Bend? The fight to protect one of America’s last wild places

Alpine, Texas — Months after Congress approved billions for infrastructure across one of the least-trafficked stretches of the southern border, bulldozers arrived at Big Bend National Park, West Texas’s wild crown jewel.  What followed was an unlikely revolt against President Trump’s decade-old promise to build a wall. Cattle ranchers, environmentalists, sheriffs, Republican senators and country singers…

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