The IRS has ended the Direct File program, which let some taxpayers file their annual returns for free using software developed by the government. Many tax preparation companies opposed this, as did ...

Adelita Grijalva’s swearing in on Wednesday made her Democrats’ newest member in the US House of Representatives and officially set in motion lawmakers’ effort to force a vote on a measure the White ...

The Jeffrey Epstein files saga is far from over, even after President Donald Trump suddenly reversed himself Sunday night and told Republicans to vote for releasing them. But regardless of how it ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Alex Hinton receives funding from the Rutgers-Newark Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America, Rutgers Research Council, and Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. I’m a cultural ...

US President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act to release all Epstein-related files publicly The DOJ must provide searchable, downloadable investigation files within 30 days with limited ...

Last week, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, the biggest wave of new information on the accused sex trafficker since his former ...

When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. “I ...

U.S. lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday (November 19, 2025) for releasing government files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after President Donald Trump dropped his opposition to opening the books ...

The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill directing the Department of Justice to release the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a move that came after ...

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