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Get paid through Venmo, Etsy or Airbnb?  Here's what you need to know before tax season

Get paid through Venmo, Etsy or Airbnb? Here’s what you need to know before tax season

If you get paid through apps like Venmo or PayPal or platforms like Etsy or Airbnb, preparing your taxes next year may be a little more confusing than usual. HAS new tax reporting rule requires third-party payment platforms to issue you and the IRS a 1099-K for business transaction payments if they add up to …

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Mary Peltola seeks to thwart Sarah Palin as Alaska tabulates ranked choice voting results

Mary Peltola seeks to thwart Sarah Palin as Alaska tabulates ranked choice voting results

CNN — Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who won a special election that sent her to Congress this summer, could once again thwart form Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid for a political comeback on Wednesday. State elections officials are set to tabulate the results of its ranked choice ballots at 8 p.m. ET. Those results …

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Prosecutors unseal charges against Michigan man for threatening FBI director and California congressman

Prosecutors unseal charges against Michigan man for threatening FBI director and California congressman

CNN — Prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against a Michigan man on Tuesday accused of threatening to kill a California congressman and FBI Director Christopher Wray, adding to the spate of recent alleged criminal threats against lawmakers. According to court documents, Neil Matthew Walter made several threatening statements online and in a voice message to …

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With strike looming, railroad unions and management head back to negotiating table

With strike looming, railroad unions and management head back to negotiating table

New York CNN Business — With a crippling freight rail strike looming in two weeks, leaders of four railroad unions and management of the major US freight railroads are due back at the negotiating table Tuesday afternoon. It will be the first joint negotiating session for the four unions, whose rank-and-file members rejected the five-year …

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Bill to protect federal judges added to must-pass defense package

Death of US Capitol Police officer by suicide qualifies for line of duty benefits DOJ rules

CNN — The Justice Department has determined that the death of a US Capitol Police officer by suicide in the days following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol occurred in the line of duty and qualifies for line-of-duty death benefits, the officer’s family said in a statement Monday. Capitol Police Officer Howard …

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Oath Keepers: Jury deliberations begin in seditious conspiracy trial

Oath Keepers: Jury deliberations begin in seditious conspiracy trial

CNN — In Washington, DC, jury will begin deliberating Tuesday in the criminal trial of five alleged leaders of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group charged with seditious conspiracy. The Justice Department alleges that the five defendants conspired to forcibly stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from then President Donald Trump to Joe Biden. …

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US Capitol Police assistant chief who oversaw intelligence operations for the department will retire

US Capitol Police assistant chief who oversaw intelligence operations for the department will retire

CNN — US Capitol Police Assistant Chief Yogananda Pittman, who oversaw the department’s operations in the days leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, is retiring from the agency, according to an internal announcement shared with CNN. Her last day with US Capitol Police will be February 1, 2023. Pittman …

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Retailers warn of 'self-inflicted economic disaster' after largest rail union rejects labor deal

Retailers warn of ‘self-inflicted economic disaster’ after largest rail union rejects labor deal

New York CNN — The nation’s leading retailers warned Monday that Congress may need to step in to avert a devastating freight rail strike they fear could spoil food, interrupt the delivery of goods bought online and worsen inflation. The Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group whose members include Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home …

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The FBI is investigating the death of a North Carolina woman found unconscious while on vacation in Mexico

The FBI is investigating the death of a North Carolina woman found unconscious while on vacation in Mexico

CNN — The family of a North Carolina woman found dead last month in a vacation rental property in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico is still looking for answers more than two weeks after her death. Shanquella Robinson, 25, traveled to Mexico on a vacation with her college friends from Winston-Salem State University, her father Bernard …

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