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Federal filing relief is now available for individuals and businesses in the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Nation affected by severe storms and flooding that began on June 12, 2025. These taxpayers now have until next Feb. 2 to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make payments.Following the disaster declaration issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, individuals and households residing or having a business in the counties of Burnet, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Menard, San Saba, Tom Green, Travis and Williamson qualify for this relief. (The nation is in the Dakotas.) The current list of eligible localities is on the IRS Tax…

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are asking the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to investigate a recent report that the Trump administration plans to use the Internal Revenue Service to investigate prominent Democrats as well as left-leaning tax-exempt nonprofits, while three prominent Senate Democrats have written a letter of their own to IRS officials. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is making plans to install Gary Shapley as head of the IRS Criminal Investigation unit and probe prominent Democratic party contributors such as billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, along with…

Longtime VC Keith Rabois has some advice for young professionals hoping to break into the industry.”I think they should either join a startup or found a company with almost no exceptions — especially if they’re technical,” Rabois said Thursday on “The Rise” podcast.”You’d ask the question, like, ‘Why are they interested in venture?’ and usually when I meet people like that, the answers are pretty superficial. Most people don’t even understand what venture really is versus what it looks like on TV,” he added.Rabois said it’s essential for newcomers to either learn how to build their own companies or watch…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with married couple Sandra and Jeff Mayernik, 62-year-old retired realtors who left the US in 2023 to travel abroad. The couple, who run the blog The Mobile Retiree, are currently in Pogradec, Albania. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Jeff: A couple of years after moving to central Oregon, we became empty nesters. We had a place outside Bend and lived on five acres. We had a couple of horses, a tractor, some project cars, and various storage buildings.Sandra: Our property included two dwellings. A 1,000-square-foot double-wide manufactured home that…

Volunteers organize donated beans, powered milk and other nonperishable items during a food drive in front of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday in Washington, D.C. The event brought together faith leaders, food bank workers and furloughed federal employees who demanded that the Trump administration release billions in emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A federal judge says the Trump administration has until “no later than Monday” to consider whether to pay at least partial SNAP food benefits to 42 million low-income people. Judge Indira Talwani acknowledged…

There’s no way around it — getting laid off hurts. You’re angry, scared, your financial health is suddenly up in the air, and your self-esteem took a big hit right when you need to hang onto it most.Maybe you saw it coming, or maybe you feel like you got the rug pulled out from under you; either way, you’re not alone. Historic mass layoffs are sweeping through the white-collar workforce and show no signs of slowing down as the era of AI-induced cuts continues.To recover from a layoff, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. But after the dust settles, something else…

Since its humble beginnings in 1935, when founder Harold Webster Smith raised $25,000 from friends and family to help build and buy homes during the Great Depression, Webster Bank has stayed true to its mission of empowering individuals, families, and businesses to reach their financial goals. In 2025, the bank proudly marks a significant milestone: 90 years of dedication to clients, colleagues, and the communities it is privileged to serve.Today, Webster Bank offers differentiated lines of business, including Commercial and Consumer Banking. With the acquisition of HSA Bank and Ametros, it’s created a Healthcare Financial Services segment. The bank understands…

Want to get ahead in Amazon’s home security unit? You’d better be using AI.In July, Business Insider viewed an email from Jamie Siminoff, Amazon’s VP of product who runs the home security division. In it, Siminoff said that all promotion applications would require employees to list how they were using AI.Siminoff doubled down on that position in an interview with Business Insider last week while promoting his book “Ding Dong.””I would go even deeper than that,” Siminoff said. “We’re going to promote based on AI. We’re going to promote based on how you’re integrating AI into your job.”Siminoff said that…

When Roxanne tells people she’s studying to be a nanny, people often ask her, “How can you make that something sustainable?” she told Business Insider’s Robert Leslie. However, Roxanne, from New Orleans, isn’t studying to be just any nanny.Indeed, nannies in the US earn, on average, $49,000 a year, according to ZipRecruiter. Norland Nannies, however, earn significantly more.Norland College in Bath, England is a 133-year-old institution that trains elite nannies for some of the world’s wealthiest families, including the British royal family and Mick Jagger’s family.Graduates earn about $75,000 straight out of Norland College and up to $170,000 after a…

A Disney blackout on YouTube TV has left subscribers unable to watch content from Disney networks, including ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, FX, National Geographic, and Freeform.YouTube TV subscribers also aren’t able to access Disney content that they had added to their libraries on the platform.Popular shows across Disney channels include “Abbott Elementary” and ESPN’s coverage of the NFL, NBA, and college sports.YouTube and Disney failed to reach a new carriage agreement by a Thursday deadline.A Disney spokesperson said that YouTube’s parent company Google had refused to pay fair rates for its channels.”With a $3 trillion market cap, Google is using…