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The Internal Revenue Service announced late Tuesday that it will let taxpayers submit tax returns without penalty through Wednesday, after a long day of technical problems that fueled confusion about what is already one of Americans' most frustrating interactions with their government. A computer glitch at the IRS knocked offline the agency's ability to process many tax returns filed electronically, a breakdown that left agency officials flummoxed and millions of Americans baffled.
Pearl Jam will look to tap into a national youth movement to register new voters when the pioneering grunge rock band plays a concert in tiny Missoula, Montana, one of just four cities in its U.S. tour this summer. The politically active band has dubbed the sold-out Aug. 13 concert "Rock2Vote" and plans to give a portion of its proceeds to four Montana organizations that support youth and Native American voting, land conservation and women's health.
Sun Country Airlines now says it plans to reimburse passengers left stranded in Mexico after the carrier canceled its last flights of the season following a late-season blizzard in Minnesota. Instead of extending its schedule or sending charters to bring home about 250 passengers from the Mexican resort cities of Cabo San Lucas and Mazatln, Sun Country opted instead to refund fliers' fares and then told them they were on their own to find a new way home.
The Indiana Debate Commission's April 30 televised U.S. Senate Republican primary debate now includes a three-candidate field in what will be the only statewide debate offered live to hundreds of Indiana media outlets. U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita had initially declined, while Indiana businessman Mike Braun and U.S. Rep. Luke Messer had confirmed the hour-long time slot to debate.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he would step down from his position and not run for reelection, the news didn't come as that much of a surprise. Of course, it is a big deal to learn that the most powerful person in Congress is relinquishing their authority.
A record number of jurisdictions this year are taking aim at conversion therapy: an attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. 'Being LGBTQ is not an illness': Record number of states banning conversion therapy A record number of jurisdictions this year are taking aim at conversion therapy: an attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Do you think Sean Hannity's association with Michael Cohen will spell serious touble for the popular talk show host and commentator? FILE - This Feb. 11, 2014, aerial file photo shows a view of the Mackinac Bridge, which spans a 5-mile-wide freshwater channel called the Straits of Mackinac that separates Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan said Friday, April 13, 2018, that the flow of crude oil through twin pipelines through the Straits should be suspended until authorities determine how severely they were damaged by what may have been a ship anchor strike.
Recent damage to underwater oil and electrical lines in the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's blamed for an insulation fluid spill was caused by a tugboat dragging its anchor, Michigan's attorney general announced Tuesday. Attorney General Bill Schuette said he notified Vanenkevort Tug and Barge that he's planning civil action against the company because of the damage believed to have been caused April 1 by the tug named Clyde S. Vanenkevort in the Straits of Mackinac.
Bodies of all four members of a Southern California family who went missing earlier this month have been found after a boy's body was found late Monday afternoon, Mendocino County sheriff's officials said. The Thottapilly family -- Sandeep, 41, Soumya, 38, Siddhant, 12, and Saachi, 9 -- were returning home to Santa Clarita from a vacation in Portland, Oregon, when they were reported missing by a relative who had expected them to show up at their San Jose home on April 6, but still had not seen them two days later, according to San Jose police.
Crain's columnist Joe Cahill has been a tireless cheerleader for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's dream of upscale express service to O'Hare. Back in February 2017 Cahill first made the argument that Chicago won't be able to maintain its status as a world-class city unless it offers business travelers and well-heeled visitors a seamless connection from the airport to the Loop.
The parent company of Allegiant Air faced calls for an inquiry into its safety record and a sharp drop in its stock price after a report by CBS News' 60 Minutes alleged the US budget airline suffers a high number of mechanical problems. The 60 Minutes segment, which aired Sunday, found more than 100 "serious mechanical incidents" on the ultra-low-cost carrier between January 2016 and October 2017.
In his first televised interview since being fired by the U.S. President Donald Trump, the former FBI director James Comey spoke on wide-ranging topics. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos broadcast on ABC, Comey declared that he believed Donald Trump was "morally unfit to be president."
The farm bill House lawmakers will consider Wednesday forces vulnerable Republicans in contested House races in largely rural districts to make a difficult, perhaps politically lethal choice between the two constituencies. Reps.
The forum at East High School in Akron was attended by about 200 people, many of whom got to submit questions to the candidates. The NAACP held a forum in Akron for gubernatorial candidates over the weekend.
What do President Trump and Senate Democrats have in common? The surprising answer is: A willingness to break up businesses simply because they are large, and to change American antitrust law, if necessary, to do it. Two recent examples show this disposition of the Trump administration.
Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on corruption charges [JURIST report], including one count of attempting to sell the US Senate seat vacated by then-president Barack Obama. This is the second time Blagojevich has petitioned the Supreme Court to take his case.
"The movement and struggle to win rights for corporations," says UCLA Law School Professor Adam Winkler, is "one of the least well-known yet most successful civil rights movements in American history." An important chapter in that history came in 2010, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to keep corporations from spending money on political ads right before an election.
On Friday, former State Department and Obama administration aide Jen Psaki wrote a piece for CNN about why some politicians survive sex scandals and others do not. It largely consists of a list of superficial reasons based on relatively recent case studies.
The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a national reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace. The Times and The Washington Post took the national reporting award for their coverage of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential race and contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
In this March 14, 2012, file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to the media outside his home in Chicago as his wife, Patti, wipes away tears a day before he was to report to a prison after his conviction on corruption charges. On Monday, April 16, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal and let stand the convictions and 14-year prison term that Blagojevich is serving.