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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will send out a total of $2.4 billion in "special payments" to 1 million people who did not claim federal stimulus checks ... as voters' top issues in polls ...

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The checks could total $1,400, the agency said. One million taxpayers will automatically receive a payment from the IRS in the coming weeks, the agency recently announced. The checks, which could ...

By Gil Kaufman Katy Perry left an early gift under Katy Cats’ trees on Friday morning (Dec. 2) when she dropped a surprise deluxe edition of her 143 album, re-dubbed 1432. Even better ...

Then, at 10:27 a.m. PT, Terrence "Punch" Henderson of SZA's Top Dawg Entertainment label revealed the deluxe album would drop at "12 pm" PT in a post shared to X. "It's my fault," he wrote.

Retirees can expect to receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025. The average retiree collects around $1,925 ...

So will an even more attention-getting question raised by Trump’s selections: Should we move past the expectation that presidential appointees should have squeaky-clean personal records?

About the same time that the UNC football team was busy preventing NC State players from planting the Wolfpack flag at midfield following the rival's dramatic 35-30 win in Kenan Memorial Stadium ...

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