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President Joe Biden’s tax agenda, crafted by experts who worked on the proposals for years and wrote books about their ideas, is getting a wholesale revamp as Democrats battle to find a program their caucus can unite behind.

Liberals are fuming at a pared-back social spending plan. Leaders want a deal that can unlock an infrastructure vote. Can the president rally his party?

A major insight into how Romans residing on the southeastern English coast would have lived has been revealed by the excavation of a historic amphitheater, where thousands would have once gathered to witness gladiatorial combat, wild animal hunts and...

Instead of jetting out to Rome in the morning, Biden will make a more-mundane detour to Capitol Hill to address a high-stakes gathering of Democratic lawmakers.