A House panel teed up for passage a bill aimed at curbing youth use of e-cigarettes by banning some flavored vaping products and raising to 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco products.

Complying with a patchwork of Wayfair-inspired state sales and use tax laws is tough enough for small remote sellers, but what happens to retailers routinely battered by fluctuating sales?

A bill that would tweak or change the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions will likely be introduced the first week of December, Bill Pascrell, a member of the House Ways and Means Cmte, says.

Amazon.com Inc. is a company that is accustomed to winning, but the $869 billion e-commerce giant has spent the last few weeks suffering through humbling defeats. On Oct. 25, the Pentagon announced it was awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp. Amazon had been seen as such a prohibitive favorite for the contract, called JEDI, that the Department of Defense was actually facing a lawsuit for setting up a process that only the company could win. Then Amazon’s preferred candidates failed to capture control of the Seattle City Council in local elections less than two weeks later, even after the company had spent $1.5 million on the campaign.

Donald Trump should have a chance to block House Democrats from obtaining his New York state tax returns, a federal judge decided, in a boost for the president as he fends off other subpoenas for his financial records while facing an impeachment inquiry.

California’s March ballot measure that would authorize the biggest school construction bond in the state’s history is losing voter support, with just 48% of likely voters saying they support it, according to a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.