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Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council, said lawmakers should raise taxes on companies and the wealthiest while extending the 2017 cuts for those making less than $400,000.
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 Curtis Means/GettySteve Bannon's contempt-of-Congress conviction was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia.
The three-judge panel shot down a number of challenges the former Trump strategist had made to the conviction. Those arguments included the claim that Bannon was not guilty because his lawyer had advised him not to comply with the subpoena, as well as the claim that the trial court excluded evidence Bannon should have been allowed to include for his defense. (Bannon's lawyer, former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, has complained since the conviction that Bannon didn't get a fair trial.)
Bannon, a former adviser to Trump during his presidency, was convicted in 2022 after failing to comply with a subpoena order for the House's Jan. 6 committee, thereby obstructing the Capitol insurrection probe. He was sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022, but the judge allowed him to delay the sentence while he appealed.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 John Lamparski/Getty ImagesThe Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe became the fifth Sioux tribe this year to ban South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from setting foot in their territory, making Noem an outlaw in more than 16 per cent of South Dakota and in more than 90 percent of her state's tribal lands.
Noem is now barred from the Lake Traverse Reservation in the state's northeast, according to a resolution passed Tuesday by the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal Council. They join the Oglala, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, and Rosebud Sioux tribes in banning the governor from their lands, which together comprise about 13,000 square miles of South Dakota's total area of 77,116 square miles.
Sisseton Tribal Chairman J. Garrett Renville said the resolution was passed "by way of the voice of our people." He added that, while the tribe was open to communicating with Noem in the future, she would remain barred from Sisseton lands until she took significant steps to repair the relationship.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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