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President-elect Donald Trump on the campaign trail laid out a broad array of ideas aimed at making life more affordable and strengthening the economy, which rank at the top of voters’ concerns. Nearly all of the measures, which lack detail, would require congressional approval. That could be tough to achieve in the partisan climate on Capitol Hill. Here’s what you need to know about what Trump has said he’ll do to address the economy:Some parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, one of Trump’s signature achievements during his time in the White House, are scheduled to lapse at the end of 2025. While the law reduced taxes for most people, Democrats often criticize the TCJA for disproportionately benefiting the wealthy. Trump wants to extend all the individual income and estate tax cuts that the 2017 law provided. This includes, among other things, an increase to the standard deduction, lower marginal income tax rates for most income brackets, and an increase to the estate tax exemption. Trump has suggested he would get rid of the cap on state and local tax deductions, known as SALT. The TCJA limited the deduction to $10,000, but the controversial cap expires at the end of 2025. Additionally, Trump has called for lowering the corporate tax rate to 15% for certain companies. The TJCA permanently lowered the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Trump would also restore companies’ ability to immediately deduct investments in equipment and research. Eliminate taxes The president-elect has rolled out a series of targeted tax breaks, including eliminating federal taxes on tips, Social Security benefits and overtime pay. Trump was the first candidate to promise an end to taxes on tips, floating it at a rally in Las Vegas about two months earlier than Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Though his campaign hasn’t released details on the proposal, Trump has indicated that he would eliminate both federal income taxes and payroll taxes, which fund Social Security and Medicare. Virtually all tipped workers would get some tax relief if Trump also gets rid of payroll taxes on tips, the Tax Policy Center found. However, these workers would then get smaller Social Security payments after they retire. Seeking to appeal to senior citizens, a dedicated voting bloc, Trump has vowed that Social Security recipients would no longer have to pay taxes on the monthly benefits they receive. Around half of beneficiaries – mainly those with higher incomes – pay federal income tax on their Social Security payments. In addition, Trump has proposed jettisoning taxes on overtime pay, though his campaign has not provided any details. However, if workers don’t owe payroll taxes on their overtime compensation, they could receive less from Social Security in retirement. If enacted, all three of these measures could reduce the taxes that help fund Social Security, which could deplete the program’s trust funds by 2031 and force a roughly 30% cut in benefits for enrollees if the revenue is not replaced, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Trump has also floated ending the federal income tax and replacing it with revenue from tariffs. Help the middle class The former president unveiled on the campaign trail several measures aimed at helping Americans afford the cost of living. He has said he would temporarily cap credit card interest rates at around 10%, which is less than half the current rate. And Trump promised to make the interest paid on car loans fully tax deductible, similar to the po[CENSORED]r existing deduction for mortgage interest. While he argues this will stimulate car ownership, some experts say it will mainly help wealthier Americans who itemize their deductions – and who typically buy more expensive cars. To assist aging seniors and their family members, Trump has said he would push for a tax credit for family caregivers. Also, he would shift resources to at-home care and end disincentives that lead to care worker shortages, according to his platform. Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, has floated beefing up the child tax credit to $5,000 per child, but the president-elect has not formally adopted that idea. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/heres-what-trump-is-proposing-for-the-economy/index.html

The Karma Invictus is the latest version of a four-door sedan that draws its lineage all the way back to the 2012 Fisker Karma. The Invictus is the performance version of the Karma Revero and adds a carbon-fiber hood, roof, and trunk lid and gains Öhlins coil-over suspension. Only 30 will be built, all of which will use the same turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine to power two electric motors on the rear axle. The company has not announced a release date yet. Karma, the small Southern California automaker that rose from the ashes of Fisker Automotive, has a brand-new car. Well, sort of. Feast your eyes on the Karma Invictus, the new performance-focused version of the Karma Revero sedan. We say sort of because, before the Revero, the Invictus can draw its lineage straight through the Karma GS-6 and all the way back to the 2012 Fisker Karma. While most of the styling is shared with the Revero, the Invictus makes use of a carbon-fiber hood, roof, and rocker panels as well as the trunklid and spoiler. The front fenders are also carbon and feature a set of louvers to release air pressure from the front wheel arches. Karma also looked to make performance gains by adding a set of motorsports-derived coil-overs from Öhlins with springs from Swift. The steering is said to be improved as well, with Karma stating that it is both more direct and predictable at the cornering limit. Every Invictus will be powered by the same plug-in-hybrid powertrain that uses a turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine to power a pair of electric motors on the rear axle. The system produces a combined 536 horsepower and 550 pound-feet of torque. Karma is only planning to build 30 of the Invictus, and the company has not released either pricing information or a delivery timeline. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62804509/karma-invictus-revealed/

Celebrating "the joy of being together ", here are eight group portraits – taken by photographer Neal Slavin between 1972 and 1991 – that show both togetherness and peculiarity in US life. It's 50 years since photographer Neal Slavin began travelling around the US documenting the nation's diverse – and often bizarre – group gatherings. To mark the anniversary, a new edition of this body of work, When Two or More are Gathered Together, has just been published. Slavin's subjects, he writes, "affirm the joy of being together rather than being apart", and reveal the many different ways that people find common ground. A broad sweep of society is depicted: bingo players, stockbrokers, chambermaids and gravediggers. Some groups, such as the Tall Social Club, invite normality into the marginal; others share passions, from penny farthing bicycles to bodybuilding. Slavin likes his subjects to pose as they want to, allowing natural hierarchies and group dynamics to come to the fore. "I watch individuals who jockey for position, thrusting a shoulder in front of the next person or wearing the widest smile, while others recede into the background, who are posing only to be a part of something larger – the group," he writes in the book. When the first images were published in 1976, the book became a landmark work, indicating the potential of the new medium of colour photography. Now, with 54 additional photos, some taken as recently as 2023, Slavin's celebration of togetherness in an increasingly individualistic digital age feels especially relevant. Here are eight highlights from the book. The Capitol Wrestling Corporation photo shoot in Washington DC, chosen as the front cover of the book, had Slavin full of anticipation. "My father and I used to watch this kind of wrestling on Channel 11, so when it came time to find these guys, I was absolutely elated," the Brooklyn-born photographer tells the BBC. He had hoped to shoot the men in action, but a scheduled event meant that they got "shunted over to the boys' locker room". Shaking hands with Gorilla Monsoon (top right) proved to be an event in itself. "His hand was bigger than my head," Slavin jokes. But for all their brawn and hammed-up bravado, "the camaraderie between them was incredible," he says. "They talked about everything, and I think that's what made the picture." "I love that picture," says Slavin of his photo of a bingo club in St Petersburg, Florida. "For me it just reeks of straight-to-the-heart humanity. It's not humorous: it's human." The players sit in the same seat every time they get together, yet they all crowd in to be in the picture. "They want to be marked down that they were there and at a certain time in history," explains Slavin. "There's a social fabric among all these people," he adds, pointing out their varied responses to the camera. Some have their chests out, others are hunched over, and some are standing up to be seen. "That's what I look for. When I'm at my best, I've found the narrative in the group, and it's fascinating." Slavin asked these Los Angeles yogis to assume a number of positions before settling on this headstand. Here, the fruits of colour photography are clear, but it had taken some time for Slavin and others to topple a pervasive snobbery that favoured monochrome. "We broke the barrier," he says. It was the additional information that colour supplied that most appealed to him. "That opened up an entire world for me that was absolutely amazing," he says. Slavin – ever the outsider – was both bemused and fascinated by the yogis. He references the 19th-Century historian and sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville who observed that, in contrast to his home country of France, Americans instinctively form groups for almost every aspect of life, forging mini democracies. Slavin fears that the digital age threatens the physicality of these connections. "It's interrupting that very basic tribalism that we have survived on for millennia, and I lament that," he says. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241101-weird-and-wonderful-gatherings-in-the-us

A fourth and final raccoon that escaped from an island zoo has now been rescued and reunited with her sisters. Amazon World Zoo Park, near Sandown on the Isle of Wight, appealed for help from islanders on Friday after four, 18-month-old female raccoons escaped from their enclosure. Three of the animals were found by Monday and the final escapee was rescued at 02:30 GMT. Rachel Patrick, head keeper at the zoo, said she was "elated and so pleased that we have them all back now”. None of the escapees actually left the zoo premises and are all uninjured. Tracker dogs and thermal cameras were all used to try and detect the animals. Ms Patrick said the final sister was spotted "in a little crevice" at 19:30 on Tuesday night. The search team had a trap set up in the area, with meat inside, but the young raccoon teased them for seven hours. "Every time she got closer, and then she suddenly decided she wasn't going in," she said. There are five raccoon sisters at the site, each named after parts of the US, where the animals live in the wild. Winnipeg, Dakota, Myrtle and Alma left Marion behind on Thursday night after they "bust a hole in the roof" of their enclosure, Ms Patrick said. They are now being held in a temporary enclosure while repairs to the roof of their enclosure take place. "They are very happy to all be back together and have been sleeping on top of each other overnight," Ms Patrick said. She added: "Thank you to everybody who offered help and the kind words and messages, they kept us going." Tony Stevens runs a voluntary organisation that uses trained dogs to track lost dogs. He said the group offered its services to the zoo when it appealed for help. "We've been doing whatever we can," Mr Stevens said, adding it had been "a massive team effort from the community". The tracking dogs used a scent from the raccoon's straw bedding to try and pinpoint the location of the missing animals. "It was a new experience for the dogs," Mr Stevens said. Meanwhile, Ben Ford, a commercial drone specialist, offered his help and had been searching for the escapees since Sunday. He said it was hard to distinguish the raccoons from other animals, particularly when they went into dense foliage. His team used a thermal cameras to help locate the sisters. Raccoons live throughout the US, except for parts of the Rocky Mountains and the deserts. They are also found in Canada and Central America They are excellent climbers and can climb almost any surface thanks to their sharp claws and nimble paws The animals are known for their bandit-like dark face masks. One theory is that the distinctive dark markings help them see clearly. They deflect the sun’s glare and also may enhance night vision Raccoons are very intelligent animals and have been known to solve complex puzzles and escape from captivity They are omnivores, meaning they will eat both meat and vegetables. They like grasshoppers, nuts, berries, mice, squirrels and birds' eggs Raccoons can live for 16 years in the wild but often only live for an average of five years https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c704rzp25dko

Ex-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has won the majority of his employment tribunal claim against the club over £11.5m in unpaid salary the club withheld from him after he was charged with sex offences. The France international and World Cup winner was later cleared of all charges after two trials. Employment judge Joanne Dunlop said she had concluded that Mendy is "entitled to recover some, but not all of the sums claimed", following a hearing at Manchester Employment Tribunal. Ms Dunlop said that while Mr Mendy was not in custody, he was "ready and willing" to work and was "prevented from doing so which were unavoidable or involuntary on his part". "In those circumstances, and absent any authorisation in the contract for the employer to withhold pay, he was entitled to be paid." The exact amount he will receive is to be calculated by Mendy and the club, or determined at a future hearing if they cannot reach an agreement. A statement from Mendy read: "Today the Employment Tribunal upheld the main part of my claim against Manchester City Football Club for unpaid wages, finding that the club had unlawfully made deductions from my wages for a total period of 16 months and 23 days. "Having had to wait for three years for my wages, I am delighted with the decision and sincerely hope that the club will now do the honourable thing and pay the outstanding amounts, as well as the other amounts promised to me under the contract, without further delay, so I can finally put this difficult part of my life behind me. "I would like to thank my friends, family, agent (Meissa N'Diaye) and my legal team (Nick De Marco KC, Laffer Abogados and Fletcher Sports Law) for all of their support." https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/13249334/benjamin-mendy-wins-majority-of-employment-tribunal-claim-against-man-city-over-gbp11-5m-of-unpaid-salary