The service is set to be expanded to 24 states starting with the 2025 filing season. A group of Republican lawmakers is asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) free online tax filing tool Direct File as soon as he returns to the White House. Direct File was run as
A former judge who sent juveniles to prison in the “Kids for Cash” kickback scandal. A former city official in Illinois who orchestrated the largest municipal embezzlement in state history. A journalist who manufactured a fentanyl-like drug dubbed “the most potent” in the United States. Those are just a few of the nearly 1,500 federal
Penny, a Marine veteran, was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide by a Manhattan jury this week. Daniel Penny, the man acquitted this week of criminally negligent homicide while restraining a threatening passenger on a New York subway, accepted Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s invitation to the annual rivalry game on Dec. 14 between the
‘We’re not on the winning side of the scoreboard here in the telecommunications and cyber espionage battle,’ said cyber expert James Lewis. Experts are urging the U.S. government to ramp up its efforts to counter communist China’s cyber espionage, in the wake of a massive hack of U.S. telecommunication networks by the Chinese state-sponsored cyber
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken with Jordanian, Turkish, and Iraqi leaders about preventing a surge in sectarian conflicts and terrorism in Syria. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 13, in hopes of promoting regional stability after Bashar al-Assad’s recent fall from power in neighboring Syria.
‘Sometimes they were solid white light, others flashed of red and green,’ Sen. Andy Kim said. Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said he saw multiple drones flying over New Jersey during an overnight patrol, while federal officials have not been able to determine their origin. The FBI, White House, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) sustained an injury and was hospitalized while abroad in Luxembourg on a congressional delegation, her office said Friday. The extent of her injury is unknown, but she was admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg, Fox News reported. Pelosi, 84, was traveling to Luxembourg for Battle of the Bulge commemorations. After