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IRS turmoil: Leadership churn, worker exodus and threats to groups' tax-exempt status roil agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — The height of tax season was the height of turmoil at the IRS.
The agency shuffled through three acting directors over the course of a week. It's preparing to lose tens of thousands of workers to layoffs and voluntary retirements. And President Donald Trump is weighing in on which nonprofits should lose t ... (full story)
US election officials question agency about Trump's order overhauling election operations
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — State and local election officials from around the country recently questioned the leaders of a federal agency directed by President Donald Trump to implement parts of his sweeping election overhaul executive order, with some expressing concerns about the consequences for voters and the people in charge ... (full story)
JD Vance's half brother wants to be Cincy's next mayor
CINCINNATI (AP) — Cory Bowman was feeling inspired in January as he headed home after watching his half brother, JD Vance, be inaugurated as vice president.
The 36-year-old Bowman, who shares a father with Vance, was already active in the community, starting an evangelical church in Cincinnati's West End and later opening ... (full story)
Pope Francis sought to make LGBTQ+ people more welcome, but church doctrine didn't change much
The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as "intrinsically disordered."
Yet unlike his predecessors, Francis incrementally conveyed through his ... (full story)
International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court
ATLANTA (AP) — Anjan Roy was studying with friends at Missouri State University when he got an email that turned his world upside down. His legal status as an international student had been terminated, and he was suddenly at risk for deportation.
"I was in literal shock, like, what the hell is this?" said Roy, a ... (full story)