Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui featured on new $1 coin
COURTESY U.S. MINT COURTESY U.S. MINT The U.S. Mint is now selling the 2025 Native American $1 coin, which features Hawaiian scholar and composer Mary Kawena Pukui. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono celebrated ...
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In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Robert Kerr, formerly with the IRS and now with Kerr Consulting, discusses the recent federal hiring freeze and buyout offer and speculates how they may affect the ...
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Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege
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Ignore Musk’s And Trump’s Wild Claims. Here’s How Federal Officials Really Get Rich.
As Forbes has tracked for years, there are plenty of perfectly legal ways for senior government officials to become quite ...
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By Erica Ackerberg Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives ...
DOGE's access to Treasury data risks US financial standing and raises security worries, experts warn
DOGE, spearheaded by billionaire Donald Trump donor Elon Musk, has rapidly burrowed deep into federal agencies and taken drastic actions to cut spending. This includes trying to get rid of thousands ...
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Isabela Emerling's ninth-inning home run lifts OU softball to win over San Diego State
Coor dribbled the bunt in front of the plate to third baseman Angie Yellen, who tried to make the plate at home. But Emerling just beat the tag, putting OU back in front. The lead was short-lived, as ...
WA resettlement agency sues Trump over refugee admissions halt
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In his latest book, Cass R. Sunstein lays out what the U.S. owes to the rest of the world. Ada Calhoun’s debut novel about a middle-aged wife and mother offers a wry critique of the sexual ...