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How to Find a Reputable Tax Preparer Near You 03/24/2024 08:00pm • For some people, annual taxes are easy to do on their own. But for those who have started a business, taken on freelance work or received unemployment benefits, it can be much more complicated. That's where a qualified, local tax preparer can help. However, finding a tax specialist isn't always easy Here's How the Procrastination Penalty Could Cost Retirees 03/24/2024 08:00pm • With tax day just around the corner, you still have time to fund an individual retirement account for tax year 2023. Retirement savers who want to invest in an IRA have a window of roughly 15 1/2 months to make their contributions, which can be done all at once or over time. So if you're considering Oath Keepers' son emerges from traumatic childhood to tell his own story in a long shot election bid 03/24/2024 09:13am • KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) ��� The eldest son of one of America���s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking free from his father's control ��� juggling work, college classes and volunteer firefighting. And Dakota Adams has tossed one more ball in the air this year: a Democratic c Maryland senate president still opposed to broad-based taxes but leaves room for negotiation 03/23/2024 09:03pm • Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) is not budging from opposition to broad-based tax increases or iGaming in the waning days of the 2024 session. House and Senate leaders are expected to head to a conference committee��next week to work out differences in the $63 billion fiscal 202 Canada holds a state funeral to honor Brian Mulroney, one of its most consequential prime ministers 03/23/2024 05:53pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Politicians, dignitaries and celebrities joined members of the public Saturday at a state funeral to honor Brian Mulroney, one of Canada���s most consequential prime ministers who in the 1980s solidified trade ties with the U.S. and spoke out against South Africa���s apartheid. Prim Protests against arrest of one of top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Modi continue for second day 03/23/2024 06:55am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Hundreds of protesters in India's capital took to the streets for a second day Saturday, demanding the immediate release of one of the top rivals of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the country gears up for a national election next month. Arvind Kejriwal, New Delhi���s Chicago voters reject ���mansion tax��� to fund homeless services during Illinois primary 03/22/2024 07:01pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Chicago voters have rejected a one-time real estate tax on properties over $1 million to pay for services for homeless people. It���s a loss for first-term Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who championed the so-called ���mansion tax.��� The proposal would have incrementally raised t Bacot's wild 5-year ride is down to its final March Madness run for No. 1 seed North Carolina 03/22/2024 06:58pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Armando Bacot should sound tired. It's not about the North Carolina big man's heavy minutes or physical play at the heart of things for the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament's West Region. Instead, it's the changes that have taken place in a five-year college career that is DNA, jail calls, financial records: Maryland prosecutors make case in 2010 murder of AU professor 03/22/2024 05:59pm • When Jorge Rueda Landeros goes on trial for killing American University professor Sue Ann Marcum, it will be almost 15 years after Montgomery County prosecutors say he beat and asphyxiated her at her home in Bethesda, Maryland. Rueda Landeros is charged with first-degree murder in Marcum's Octobe California's unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame 03/22/2024 05:01pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California's unemployment rate is now the highest in the country, reaching 5.3% in February following new data that revealed job growth in the nation's most populous state was much lower last year than previously thought. California lost a staggering 2.7 million jobs at t California governor, celebrities and activists launch campaign to protect law limiting oil wells 03/22/2024 04:10pm • LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) ��� Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jane Fonda joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom and environmental advocates in Los Angeles on Friday to launch a campaign to keep a 2022 law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and hospitals. The law bans new wells within 3,200 feet Judge expects ruling on jurisdiction, broadcasting rights in ACC-Florida State fight before April 9 03/22/2024 03:13pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� The Atlantic Coast Conference and Florida State squared off in a courtroom for the first time Friday, following the member school���s push to exit the conference and explore a more lucrative landing spot elsewhere. During a four-hour hearing at Mecklenburg County courthouse, Maryland US Rep. David Trone apologizes for using racial slur at hearing. He says it was inadvertent 03/22/2024 02:08pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� A Maryland congressman who is running for Senate has apologized for what he said was the inadvertent use of a racial slur during a budget hearing. Rep. David Trone, a Democrat, said he confused the word he used with another one as he spoke about tax rates. The congressman, DC approves financial literacy standards to help prep kids for life after high school 03/22/2024 12:20pm • D.C.'s school board this week approved financial literacy standards, paving the way for some students to learn about taxes, credit and investing to help prepare them for life after high school. The D.C. State Board of Education approved the standards unanimously. The final standards were put toge A Modi rival is arrested. Now, supporters of the opposition leader are protesting in India's capital 03/22/2024 11:39am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India's most consequential politicians of the past decade held protests Friday against his arrest, which opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi���s government before national elections. Arv