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Employers who put a “qualified overtime” amount in Box 14 of the 2025 Form W-2 are furnishing the separate accounting the IRS says employees may rely on to claim the new overtime deduction; taxpayers ...
The U.S. did not simply “give” Argentina $40 billion under the Trump administration; the White House authorized a $20 billion Treasury currency-swap line and sought to mobilize an additional ~$20 bill...
President Trump publicly accused Venezuela of having “stolen” U.S. oil, land and other assets and ordered a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers; U.S. authorities have seized at lea...
A large, multi-year investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social-services programs has resulted in scores of charges concentrated in the Somali diaspora and prompted an aggressive federal enforcemen...
Major international oil companies, most notably ConocoPhillips and others operating joint ventures in 2007, had large stakes in Venezuelan projects — including Petrozuata, Hamaca and Corocoro — that C...
Federal prosecutors and reporters describe a sprawling set of frauds tied to Minnesota social‑services programs that prosecutors say involved dozens of defendants and more than $1 billion in alleged l...
have uncovered multiple large fraud schemes in that resulted in indictments and convictions, and a large share of those charged are Somali American; the precise total stolen is still being determined ...
NESARA began as a 1990s policy proposal by Harvey Francis Barnard that called for debt forgiveness, abolition of the income tax in favor of a national sales tax, ending compound interest on secured lo...
Multiple international observers, governments and NGOs say there is substantial evidence that Venezuela’s July 28, 2024, presidential vote was manipulated: the Carter Center concluded the process “did...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...
Governor Tim Walz is accused primarily of allowing widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social-services and pandemic-era aid programs, retaliating against whistleblowers who raised alarms, and presiding ov...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Multiple reputable outlets report that the U.S. completed a $500 million sale of Venezuelan oil and that some proceeds are being held in bank accounts whose largest tranche is in Qatar (Semafor, CNN, ...
Federal and state prosecutors say the Minnesota schemes began before COVID and expanded through the pandemic into multiple programs — child nutrition, autism therapy, housing and behavioral health — p...
Public reporting shows claims that "Biden hired an additional 89,000 agents" stem from a 2021 Treasury estimate that roughly 86,852 additional IRS staff could be hired over ten years if roughly $78–$8...
For 2026 RMD calculations, IRS Publication 590‑B and related guidance say three tables govern different situations: Table III (Uniform Lifetime) is the default for IRA owners and retirement-plan parti...
The principal federal agencies that carried out immigration enforcement before the creation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003 were the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I...
There is no approved, universal federal “stimulus check” scheduled for December 2025; current reporting and official IRS pages show prior Economic Impact Payments are closed and any new $2,000 “tariff...
The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...
The Trump administration moved to marshal up to $40 billion to help stabilize Argentina’s collapsing finances because officials portrayed it as both a market-stabilizing, geopolitical move and a way t...