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The normally bustling streets of Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles were quiet except for the commotion of sirens and gusty helicopters. Loud bangs punctuated the night, but LA’s street vendors were still slinging tacos and crêpes to the few pedestrians who had ventured out.It was the evening of Monday, June 9, the week that the LA Times reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained several hundred immigrants in Southern California. In response, the streets of downtown had been embroiled in four consecutive days of uproar.From the taco stand where Celeste Sughey works as a cashier, we could hear protesters…

When my company restructured and offered me a voluntary redundancy package, I felt like I finally had my chance to follow my dream of living in Barcelona.With no corporate career tying me down, a modest payment, and my husband’s salary (his job was already remote), we could afford to take a “grown-up gap year” of sorts. As European citizens, we also had the option to stay if things worked out.So, in our mid-30s, we left our comfortable life in Edinburgh behind and headed to the Spanish city with no real plan. We didn’t have jobs or a place to live…

New York Representative Mike Lawler said Wednesday he is open to negotiating with the Senate to advance President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, but insisted he would not agree to cut a $40,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, or SALT. “We negotiated,” Lawler told Fox Business of the House version of the bill. “That’s the deal.” The SALT deduction has been a primary sticking point holding up Trump’s legislative agenda. Lawler, one of a handful of Republicans representing districts in high tax states, previously called the Senate version of the tax bill “dead on arrival” because of its…

The Trump administration is privately considering unleashing what advocates and critics agree would be one of its biggest cudgels yet to pressure colleges to end slews of programs and practices benefiting students who are racial minorities.The Treasury Department is weighing a change to Internal Revenue Service policies to allow the revocation of tax-exempt status for colleges that consider race in student admissions, scholarships and other areas, Bloomberg News reported last week.If enacted, it would take the administration’s reshaping of higher education well beyond the public battles with Harvard University and Columbia University. Nonprofit status is core to the finances of…

The U.S. Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In a decision that plunged the Supreme Court into yet another culture war feud, the justices on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law banning all gender affirming care for minors. In the last few years, fully half the states have adopted similar bans, leaving the other half, so far, allowing gender affirming care in the form of at minimum, hormone treatments prior to a teenager turning 18. The vote was 6-to-3, along conservative/liberal lines. Supporters of the bill were predictably elated over the win. As state Sen.…

The Supreme Court held on June 12, 2025, that the Tax Court lost jurisdiction over a collective due process hearing when there was no longer an ongoing levy. During the multiyear proceedings before the Tax Court and the Internal Revenue Service over an alleged outstanding tax liability, the taxpayer in the case — Jennifer Zuch — filed several tax returns that showed overpayments. Each time, the IRS applied these overpayments to her outstanding tax liability, rather than issuing refunds. Once her liability reached zero, the IRS moved to dismiss the Tax Court proceeding as moot, since the agency no longer had…

Turning an internship into a full-time job on Wall Street requires dedication and a voracious work ethic — working late nights, for example, comes with the territory.At Goldman Sachs, it also means mustering up the courage to ask full-timers, including senior bankers, to grab a latte with you.If that sounds intimidating, it is — but it’s also par for the course at the powerhouse investment bank, according to Goldman staffers who started out as interns.”We have what we call a ‘coffee culture,’ where it’s totally normal and expected, frankly, for you to make that ask — all the way up…

Tales of intergenerational turmoil tend to strike a nerve, so I steeled myself for some angry emails last month when I wrote a story about the millennials who aren’t ready to inherit homes from their baby boomer parents. Both boomers and millennials have good reason to get touchy about media scrutiny — each side has caught plenty of grief for the economic shortcomings of the younger generation. But in all my mental preparation, I failed to consider that my story would piss off an entire other cohort: Gen Xers.What I wrote still rings true: Millennials stand to inherit trillions of…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Linda Zierolf, 80, who lives near Dayton, Ohio. She has worked at the same company since she was 18 and has no plans to retire. Zierolf, who is financially comfortable, said her company, while very different from a staffing and technology perspective, still has the same values and friendly people it had in the 1960s. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.My company is celebrating its 70th year this year, and I have been here for 56 of them.I’m still here because I really like the work and enjoy…

To keep up with late calls and emails, more employees are punching back in after hours.A Microsoft report published on Tuesday found that work is extending long past business hours. Meetings after 8 p.m. are up 16% compared to last year, and employees are sending and receiving over 50 messages outside their set hours.The findings were based on Microsoft data and a survey of 31,000 full-time or self-employed white-collar workers across 31 countries between February and March.Employees are giving up parts of their days off, too.The survey found that nearly 20% of employees work on the weekend and check their…