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Should You Hire a Tax Professional This Year? 02/27/2024 07:00pm • Tax season is upon us, and you might be wondering if you should tackle filing yourself or hire a tax preparer to do it for you. Tax professionals can be a big help, taking the stress out of doing your taxes, especially if you're self-employed, have had a major life event like marriage or divorce in How to Financially Prepare for a Government Shutdown 02/27/2024 07:00pm • When a government shutdown occurs, your budget could be affected in myriad ways. You might see few to no changes in certain areas, such as continued Social Security paychecks or a government pension. Other segments could have more intense consequences, including delays in travel or application appro Hunter Biden's years of personal grief and public missteps are focus of House impeachment probe 02/27/2024 06:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As his father stood in the Rose Garden at the White House in the fall of 2015 and announced he would not run for president, Hunter Biden was facing his own crossroads. It was a deeply emotional and traumatic time for Joe Biden and his close-knit family, still reeling from the dea Proposed new Virginia 'tech tax' sparks backlash from business community 02/27/2024 05:42pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Trade associations representing hundreds of companies that do business in Virginia have come out swinging against a proposal to expand the state sales tax to cover digital goods, something Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin proposed and Democrats endorsed in their budget legislati Kentucky lawmakers advance bill allowing child support to begin with pregnancy 02/27/2024 05:09pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Lawmakers in Kentucky advanced a bill Tuesday that would grant the right to collect child support for unborn children, reflecting a broader effort in some Republican-led states to push legislation conferring a fetus with the same rights as a person. The measure would allow a NASCAR teams have hired a top antitrust attorney in their revenue dispute. Here's what it means 02/27/2024 11:28am • The NASCAR season is underway, with 38 races to determine another stock car racing champion in the 76th season of the top motorsports series in the United States. There is a serious problem for NASCAR and its teams: Negotiations on a new revenue-sharing model have deteriorated. 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