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For tax year 2025 the IRS treated reporting of “qualified overtime compensation” as a transition issue: employers are encouraged to provide the overtime premium to employees (for example in Box 14 of ...
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not identify any U.S. senators as “getting money back from Venezuela.” The documents instead show U.S. senators sponsoring legislation...
Employers must track and be prepared to report “qualified overtime compensation” for tax years 2025–2028, but the IRS treated 2025 as a transition year and will not change Forms W-2/1099 for 2025 or i...
President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...
If an employer did not separately show qualified overtime on a 2025 Form W‑2, the IRS permits taxpayers to rely on reasonable, contemporaneous payroll records and employer-provided accountings — for e...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
There is no reliable, sourced list in the provided reporting that names U.S. senators accepting money from the Venezuelan government; available sources focus on U.S. Senate votes and legislation relat...
Allegations that a list of U.S. senators took money from “Venezuelan cartels” do not appear in the provided reporting; available sources instead document U.S. government actions that label Venezuela-l...
A flurry of recent local and partisan reporting ties large outbound cash movements at several airports to couriers of Somali descent, but there is no direct, corroborated mainstream account in the pro...
Available sources show the U.S. gross national debt rose from roughly $36.22 trillion when President Trump began his second term on Jan. 20, 2025, to about $38 trillion by Oct. 23, 2025—an increase of...
Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, the headline national debt rose by roughly $1.7–2.2 trillion in fiscal 2025 and reached about $38 trillion by late October 2025 according to mult...
President Trump’s first year in office saw the federal deficit for fiscal year (FY) 2025 come in around $1.8 trillion — roughly $41 billion smaller than FY2024 according to Treasury and CBO-era report...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of Minnesota fraud cases tied to social‑service programs with defendants predominantly of Somali ancestry; prosecutors have charged roughly 86–87 people and se...
has been publicly linked to funding a sprawling network of left‑wing nonprofits, media outlets and activist groups—including The People’s Forum, , , , , and a cluster of entities used in foreign trans...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of criminal cases tied to multiple Minnesota fraud schemes: prosecutors have charged roughly 70–86 people across related probes, with reporting commonly citing...
Multiple news and opinion sites allege links between Rep. Ilhan Omar and a large Minnesota COVID-era child‑nutrition fraud that prosecutors say involved roughly $250 million in federal aid; those sour...
Federal and state reporting shows roughly 78 people have been charged in the recent Minnesota fraud investigations, with more than 50 convictions or guilty pleas reported so far; multiple outlets say ...
There is no single, authoritative federal “social security stimulus check” confirmed for December 2025 in the available reporting; however, beneficiaries of Social Security programs will see routine a...
Starting with tax year 2026 employers must separately report qualified overtime compensation on employees’ Form W-2s, with IRS draft instructions pointing to a new Box 12 code (draft “TT”) though some...
Federal prosecutors have charged about 78 people in Minnesota’s pandemic-era welfare/COVID-relief fraud investigations; reporting across outlets says roughly 56 people have pleaded guilty and about 59...