'NYC is cooked': Business leaders and Wall Streeters erupt over proposed luxury second-home tax - Business Insider

Penthouse pieds-à-terre: Bezos, Trump, and other billionaires facing Mamdani's proposed tax - Business Insider

Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’

<p>The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition</p><p>Tractors suddenly appeared at the entrance to Chispa Road near the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-mexico-border">US-Mexico border</a> in rural Big Bend, Texas, in late March. Contractors informed Yolanda Alvarado, a cattle rancher, that they were starting work to upgrade the rough county dirt road there into a “highway” – the first step needed for semi trucks to haul the 30-foot steel pillars used to build Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-border-wall-wildlife">border barrier</a>.</p><p>“That fence line, that’s where the wall is going to be,” said Alvarado, hopping out of the front seat of her flatbed truck at the gate to the family property located directly along the path of the proposed wall.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/trump-border-wall-big-bend-texas">Continue reading...</a>

Wall St Week Ahead Surging record-high US stocks to wade deeper into earnings season - Reuters

<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxPaWJmWUFPa2lnWnJCby1JSlA3dU1XVE9YeVpJMTJOSzlzXzI2ZnJqZkREdFlHMENwcldMZFRZaFRkSVlJMm1YdnY4a1ZHN21XRk9kZzFiQW5oYzRxMlJWTHlUNHcxVDR5Ml9UODlxdzNlSDlHVEE3eWR0eFNFOW1YcnI0NzVDZUhjSTdEOHNvWnpLTmJQNTZJZXgwc3RvOWJ4OE94V1N0NnlTV2xpZXFpTHpyUExlX195S19R?oc=5" target="_blank">Wall St Week Ahead Surging record-high US stocks to wade deeper into earnings season</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">Reuters</font>

World shares mostly higher after Wall Street hits record and oil rises - AP News

<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilwFBVV95cUxPX296UDBvTWgzLUJsUUcwQVU3V1NHd1R6d0p2Ukx6cEpIeHhpYjVDVHQ4LXVVa2MzYk1XWHVtaFUtQy1ad3U0RnJqVkRVLWJ3OUI1Sm5ya25kaWJsRENZNU5oU1U1TVlYd3MxLUdxdHVHd2V2TVNrd201RzdiVTVPM0xydWIwZU1oNk1fRXlLa2UwRTJXcFA0?oc=5" target="_blank">Asian stocks mostly higher after Wall Street hits record and oil rises</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">AP News</font>

Tracking the Trump family's business deals and profits in his 2nd term

In his second administration, President Trump's family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. Liz Landers reports.

Leadership shakeups at ICE, CDC and FEMA as White House readies for midterms

From the Department of Homeland Security to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there's been a bit of a leadership shakeup within the Trump administration. Longtime political reporter and author Molly Ball joins "The Takeout" with analysis.