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The 2025 tax legislation called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) did not repeal the statutory rules that determine when Social Security benefits are included in taxable income; instead it create...
Enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) in effect through 2025 cap a household’s required contribution to the benchmark (second‑lowest‑cost Silver) plan at no more than about 8.5% of their ACA‑specific m...
Major corporations have had mixed responses to calls to cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): a small number publicly ended contracts or services — most notably some consulting...
The One, Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB) enacted for 2025 changes itemized-deduction rules by raising temporary caps on certain deductions and layering in income-based phaseouts rather than a single flat c...
Several 2025–2026 federal proposals and enacted laws touch Social Security taxation: enacted 2025 legislation called the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) created a new $6,000 senior deduction that redu...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative public database for federal contracts and shows hundreds of companies with active awards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); prominent names that ...
Tariffs introduced in 2025 have contributed a measurable bump to U.S. inflation: central estimates put the near-term addition to headline PCE at roughly 0.4–0.5 percentage points (June–August annualiz...
If Congress does nothing, the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 will expire on Dec. 31, 2025, returning subsidy rules to pre‑enhancement ...
Courts and legislators from 2020–2025 have split liability into two tracks: civil copyright and tort claims against AI developers and platform operators, and criminal/regulatory actions targeting AI-g...
Combined (or provisional) income determines whether up to 50% or up to 85% of Social Security benefits are included in taxable income; provisional income is generally AGI + tax‑exempt interest + 50% o...
The 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) did not repeal the taxation rules for Social Security benefits; instead it created a new $6,000 senior deduction (per eligible individual) for 2025–2028 and l...
Courts have already confronted AI-generated or AI‑enhanced video evidence: most notably a Washington state judge excluded AI‑enhanced surveillance footage in a triple‑homicide case in early 2024, a de...
New 2025 tax law changes — chiefly the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) that raised standard deductions and created a temporary $6,000 “senior” deduction for taxpayers 65+ — can materially reduce or ...
For the 2025 tax year, the biggest income-sensitive limits affect the SALT deduction (raised to $40,000 but phased down for higher MAGI) and upcoming overall limits on itemized deductions and charitab...
Reuters is part of a for‑profit corporate group controlled largely by the Thomson family (via Woodbridge) and operates as a global commercial wire service within Thomson Reuters . The Associated Press...
Public confidence that professionals meet high ethical and performance standards has fallen: Gallup reports the average “very high/high” ethics rating for core professions slid from ~40% in the early ...
U.S. tax rules treat pay for services the same regardless of a worker’s immigration status: wages paid to undocumented workers can be subject to income, Social Security, Medicare, and payroll withhold...
Litigation trackers vary sharply in how they count government versus personal lawsuits because their methodological choices—scope definitions, data sources, aggregation rules, and presentation—are sha...
Reuters can reasonably be considered a trustworthy news organization for general-purpose reporting: multiple independent media-evaluation organizations rate it as centrist or least-biased and reliably...
Indemnity agreements and law‑firm malpractice (professional liability) policies operate in the same risk landscape but perform different jobs: indemnity clauses shift contractual responsibility for lo...