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  • FILE – Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing on oversight of the credit reporting agencies at Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2023. On Thursday, Warren and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., sent letters to the executives of Intuit, H&R Block, the Free File Alliance, and American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights, seeking information specifics on the amount of money firms have made since being members of the Free File Alliance and information on the number of former government workers who’ve joined their firms in the past two years. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Finance

    Democratic lawmakers say tax-prep firms ran ‘a long and aggressive lobbying campaign’ to stop Americans from doing their own taxes

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Finance

    IMF now sees world economy growing a bit more than forecast, but warns ‘it is too early to celebrate’

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters, in Washington, DC on January 10, 2023. – In one of its first legislative moves, House Republicans voted on January 9, 2023to rescind some $70 billion in funding for the IRS. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    You no longer need to worry about IRS agents showing up at your door after the agency reverses a longtime policy of unannounced visits

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington on March 22, 2013. The IRS is showcasing its new capability to aggressively audit high-income tax dodgers as it makes the case for sustained funding and tries to avert budget cuts sought by Republicans who want to gut the agency. IRS leaders said they collected $38 million in delinquent taxes from more than 175 high-income taxpayers in the past few months.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)Finance

    IRS says new audit funds have helped it collect $38 million in delinquent taxes from over 175 high-income taxpayers

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • MetaTech

    Tax prep giants including H&R Block hired Meta to help their marketing efforts. Then millions of ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ taxpayer details went to Meta

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • Joe Biden, Narendra ModiPolitics

    Silicon Valley royalty takes in state dinner with lighthearted Modi with Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella among guests

    By Darlene Superville, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • ParisEnvironment

    Paris is becoming the epicenter of talks on climate change and poverty—but it’s all talk so far

    By Fatima Hussein, Paul Wiseman, and others
  • World BankFinance

    World Bank, disappointing every economist calling for a recession, upgrades global growth outlook for 2023

    By Paul Wiseman, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden says a debt ceiling deal is ‘very close’ as Yellen says America defaulting on its debt is also very close

    By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden ‘optimistic’ on debt ceiling deal as Yellen warns of default days away

    By Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, and others
  • From left, European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for the family photo at the Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, May 19, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)Politics

    The US and other wealthy nations are rolling out new sanctions against Russia as they try to stop Putin’s ‘ability to wage his barbaric invasion’

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks during an eventFinance

    Most U.S. adults are concerned about the debt ceiling—but few understand it

    By Darlene Superville, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) buildingFinance

    IRS will test a free, online tax-filing systems starting next year—and tax-prep firms are not happy

    By Fatima Hussein, Wyatte Grantham-Philips, and others
  • FILE – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listen as President Joe Biden speaks before a meeting to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Politics

    Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have very different views on what happened at their debt ceiling meeting

    By Lisa Mascaro, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • FILE – The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The Treasury Department designated El Chapo’s son Joaquin Guzman Lopez and others for financial sanctions, including a freeze on American-owned assets and bank accounts and a ban on Americans doing business with them. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)Politics

    The US just sanctioned the son of drug lord El Chapo and other Sinaloa cartel members over alleged fentanyl trafficking

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press