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  • IRSLaw

    Trump’s latest retribution hits Booz Allen, whose contractor was charged with leaking tax returns to the press

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • bessentBanking

    Bessent’s visit to Minnesota comes with more vows to crack down on fraud as tensions flare with state, Somalia government

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • bessentEconomy

    Under Biden, America got 150 countries to agree a 15% global corporate tax. Under Trump, America gets an exemption

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • HHSLaw

    Medicaid paid over $200 million to dead people in 2021 and 2022, federal watchdog says

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Medicaid paid more than $200 million to dead people, and Trump is rewriting privacy laws to fix it

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Sabrina CarpenterLaw

    Sabrina Carpenter rips ‘evil and disgusting’ White House use of one of her songs in an ICE raid video montage

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Social Security Administration’s main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)Economy

    Social Security payments to go up 2.8% next year while polls show three-fourths of seniors think 3% isn’t enough to keep up with rising prices

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Trump, MileiEconomy

    Scott Bessent working on another $20 billion of Argentina financing with private banks, sovereign funds, ‘more focused on the debt market’

    By Fatima Hussein, Andrea Vulcano, and others
  • social securityEconomy

    Tens of millions on Social Security go without cost-of-living adjustment due to government shutdown

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Elizabeth WarrenEconomy

    Elizabeth Warren accuses Trump of betraying farmers and ‘putting himself and his billionaire buddies first’ with $20 billion Argentina bailout

    By Fatima Hussein, Isabel Debre, and others
  • Internal Revenue ServiceNorth America

    IRS to furlough almost half its workforce under contingency plan for government shutdown

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Kristalina GeorgievaEconomy

    ‘Buckle up’: IMF chief tells business community that ‘uncertainty is the new normal and it is here to stay’

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano.Personal Finance

    An ‘IRS CEO’ now exists, and Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano is the first to fill the position

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • President Donald J. Trump's name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the new coronavirus outbreak in San Antonio, April 23, 2020.Personal Finance

    Almost 400,000 Americans still get Social Security by paper check. That’s going away everywhere (except where it isn’t)

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • The west front of the Capitol is seen in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, where the flags have been lowered to half-staff after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Economy

    CBO slashes economic growth forecast for 2025 as Trump tariffs heat up inflation

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press