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House passes bipartisan $79 billion tax cut package focused on helping businesses and low-income families 01/31/2024 08:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House passes bipartisan $79 billion tax cut package focused on helping businesses and low-income families. Nebraska lawmaker behind school choice law targets the process that could repeal it 01/31/2024 07:06pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� A Nebraska lawmaker behind a new law that allows millions in state income tax to go to private school tuition scholarships is now targeting the referendum petition process that could allow state voters to repeal it. Omaha Sen. Lou Ann Linehan on Wednesday presented to a legisl What Students Can Use Scholarship Money For 01/31/2024 07:00pm • From textbooks to a spring break trip to Canc��n, if you've won some scholarship money, you may be trying to figure out what you can spend it on. The answer depends. Just as colleges and scholarship organizations have application requirements, many also have rules covering how to spend an award. Tui Delta SkyMiles�� American Express Cards Raise Annual Fees 01/31/2024 07:00pm • American Express and Delta Air Lines have enhanced perks for Delta SkyMiles�� American Express cards but also have raised annual fees, they announced on Feb. 1. The changes take effect on Feb. 1, though existing cardholders won't have to pay the annual fee increase -- $100 or $51, depending on you Will the Stock Market Crash in 2024? 6 Risk Factors 01/31/2024 07:00pm • Slivers of sunlight have finally pierced through the clouds in America, as the nation's gross domestic product grew by an annual rate of 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023. That news should help the U.S. stock market, which has gained 1.6% as measured by the S&P 500 index on a year-to-date basis Walmart to build or convert 150-plus stores in next 5 years. It hasn't opened new stores in 3 years 01/31/2024 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Walmart said Wednesday it plans to build or convert more than 150 stores in the next five years, while remodeling existing stores. The plan marks a big change for the discounter. In 2016, Walmart said it was slowing new store openings and instead investing in its online efforts, t Orioles sale draws sharp criticism from state treasurer 01/31/2024 04:38pm • Maryland Treasurer Dereck Davis (D) took aim at the owners of the newly-sold Baltimore Orioles, at one point comparing them to a reviled owner of a football team that once played in Baltimore. Davis vented his spleen during a Board of Public Works meeting Wednesday. The treasurer was not angry ab Tips for avoiding headaches this tax season 01/31/2024 03:30pm • Doing your taxes, even if you don't have a filing requirement, is essential to getting tax credits that you wouldn't get otherwise, D.C.'s taxpayers advocate said. Currently in D.C., about 30% of taxpayers who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit don't take advantage of it because they don't Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses 01/31/2024 09:18am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden tried to cajole colleagues into congeniality with a rhetorical question: ���Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?��� Progress was intended. But pandemon Maximize your credit card rewards with minimal effort 01/31/2024 09:12am • Credit card rewards can help you get some money back on every dollar you spend, but they can also be confusing. First, there���s deciding which card to apply for if you don���t yet carry a rewards card. Then, there���s how and where best to use it. And finally, the good stuff: cashing in your earned D��j�� vu? Electoral bans, arrests, attacks, threats again part of Venezuelan presidential race 01/31/2024 12:00am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� D��j�� vu? Feels like it. Assassination plots, arrest warrants for journalists and human rights defenders, attacks against adversaries ��� from the belittling kind to the judicial type ��� and other associated government actions have marked the start of 2024 for Venezuela Fighting fraud at the mailbox: Maryland bill goes after postal thieves 01/30/2024 11:40pm • They target the U.S. Post Office's "blue boxes" on street corners where people drop in their checks and letters. They break into mailboxes at town houses and apartment complexes. And they'll pluck mail out of mailboxes at the end of driveways. A new bill proposed in Maryland would go after the th Police in Sri Lanka use tear gas to disperse opposition protest against dire economic conditions 01/30/2024 08:28pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lanka's police used Tuesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for a national election later this year. Protesters from the main opposition United People���s Power party How to Get the Biggest Tax Refund in 2024 01/30/2024 07:00pm • It's hard to imagine that anyone enjoys preparing their tax return, but the prospect of a big refund can make it worthwhile. To maximize your tax refund, you need to be smart about how you file. "Take advantage of any and all tax credits you're eligible for," says Kenneth Chavis IV, a senior wealth What's New on the 2024-2025 FAFSA 01/30/2024 07:00pm • Families should expect considerable changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, which was released in a soft launch format in December 2023. Filing the FAFSA is required for students who wish to be considered for federal financial aid. Colleges and states use the for