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Ken Kies, the Treasury Department’s top tax policy official who has also been serving as acting chief counsel of the IRS, is expected to leave the federal government, according to multiple published reports, now confirmed by Forbes. His departure would open another significant hole in IRS leadership. Neither of the…
When you are close to retirement, every market decline can feel different than it did decades earlier. At this stage, you generally have less time to recover from major losses. While it may be easy to focus on how far the market falls, the timing of a decline can be…
Giant Eagle Inc. is not letting its impending sale to Kroger stop it from celebrating the summer. The western Pennsylvania-based grocery chain has launched a new “On Sale This Season” promotion for summer, reducing prices on more than 300 popular grocery items through Sept. 9, according to a July 9…
One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered recently fetched a staggering $50.1 million at Sotheby’s, setting a new record for the most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction. Nicknamed Gus, the fossil blew past its pre-sale estimate of $20 million to $30 million after a…
Have you ever heard of the car rental upsell scam? Neither had Steve Sphar when he rented a compact car in Granada, Spain, recently. His car rental company, Europcar, ran out of vehicles, so it offered him an SUV, which he could later exchange for the model he’d reserved. But…
Managing money as a couple isn’t always easy, especially when each partner has different spending habits, debt obligations or income. A budgeting app like Honeydue can make those conversations easier by giving both partners a shared view of their finances while letting each person control how much information they share.…
Krispy Kreme turns 89 years old this week and the popular doughnut chain is celebrating by offering customers a deal on its most iconic menu item. On Friday, July 17, customers can score a dozen Original Glazed doughnuts for just 89 cents with the purchase of any dozen at regular…
You pay into Medicare with every paycheck for decades, so you might think that signing up at 65 will be a simple process. But just glancing at the nearly 130-page “Medicare & You” official guide is a clue that it’s more involved than that. There’s a range of options to…
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Drivers may not know it quite yet, but the Internal Revenue Service put new, higher mileage rates into place effective July 1. New Rates Take Effect July 1 Thanks to some painful moments at the pump in the first half of 2026, the IRS took the unusual step of initiating…
