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[caption id="attachment_10647" align="alignnone" width="2560"] 2020 tax return form 1040 with calculator and focus through glasses. The concept of filing a tax return, payment, return.[/caption] WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2025 tax filing season today and is accepting and processing federal individual tax year 2024 returns. During today's early morning opening, IRS systems have already received millions of tax returns from across the nation for processing. The IRS

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city's NFL franchise. What followed was a monthslong, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints' president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. The records, which the Saints

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2184"] USPS Building Courtesy of USPS.com[/caption] Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service said on Wednesday it would accept parcels from China and Hong Kong again after a temporary suspension following President Donald Trumpscrapping a trade provision used by retailers including Temu, Shein, and Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab to ship low-value packages duty-free to the United States. "The USPS and Customs and Border Protection are working closely together to implement

[caption id="attachment_10592" align="alignnone" width="1440"] (AP News/Carolyn Caster)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries. Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump's administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid organizations agonizing over whether they can continue with programs such

(AP NEWS) Many Americans with high-deductible health insurance plans face a cold reality at the start of every year. Those deductibles will have to be paid before most coverage starts. That can mean thousands of dollars in fresh health care bills. Such financial hits can be brutal for patients with cancer or other chronic conditions. They may have met their deductibles last year, only to see them reset in January. Patients

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. - This week's arctic blast that had folks considering whether that cup of coffee really was worth a trip outdoors is the other side of the same coin that in 2024 delivered excessive heat resulting in Hurricane Helene's destructive floodwaters - weather extremes linked to climate change. There's a disconnect with that when it comes to the correlation between climate change and environmental justice, which impacts the

[caption id="attachment_10573" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Alicia Keys gives a speech after accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award on Sunday at the 67th Grammy Awards. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)[/caption] BY TARA SUTER, THE HILL Alicia Keys used her remarks at the Grammy Awards late Sunday to make an impassioned plea for diversity. "This is not the time to shut down a diversity of voices. We've seen on this stage, talented, hardworking

[caption id="attachment_10559" align="alignnone" width="1440"] In this undated image provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB investigators and members of the salvage crew recover wreckage from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet Wednesday night, Jan. 29, 2025, near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. (NTSB via AP)[/caption] (AP NEWS) American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington D.C.'s

[caption id="attachment_7281" align="alignnone" width="970"] (Jackie Valley/The Christian Science Monitor via AP)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - America's children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as the nation's report card. The findings are yet another setback for U.S. schools and reflect the myriad challenges that have upended education, from pandemic school closures to a youth mental

Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Agrippa Hull Continental Army veteran[/caption] Sentiment against the institution of slavery reached a peak in the year leading up to the Revolutionary War. Such vocal criticisms of slavery would not be heard again in the United States until the abolitionists of the Antebellum Era. Thousands of Native Americans and Blacks paid close attention to the colonial crisis. African Americans,