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IRS using new funding on better technology to collect taxes
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel released a plan in early 2023 promising that "technology and data advances will allow us to focus enforcement on taxpayers trying to avoid taxes,…
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U.S. spending billions to reduce forest fire risks; it’s not enough
1 of 4 | Members of a hot shot crew remove fuel along a containment line during the Caldor fire near Meyers, Calif., in 2021. File Photo by Peter DaSilva/UPI | License…
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Infrastructure work holds greatest promise for U.S. economy
1 of 3 | President Joe Biden speaks about the government's investment in infrastructure at the White House in June. File Photo by Rod Lamkey/UPI | License Photo…
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Modern warfare turns neighborhoods to battlefields; hope focuses on rebuilding
1 of 7 | People check a destroyed house after an operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, on February. 3, 2022. File…
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Reimagining democracy: Technology may negate need for Congress
If an AI system could determine optimal policy solutions that balanced every voter’s preferences, would it still make sense to have representatives? Maybe we should vote directly…
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Michael Oher, Mike Tyson learn you don’t own your life story
1 of 5 | Baltimore Ravens offense line coach Andy Moeller talks with lineman Michael Oher, who was portrayed in the 2009 blockbuster "The Blind Side," at a game in St.…
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In future, we could snuff out cyclones, but weather control brings new risks
1 of 7 | Project STORMFURY researchers seeded tropical storm Dorothy over the eastern Caribbean in 1970 and believed they had succeeded. But future efforts did not…
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Real danger to U.S. isn’t Russo-Sino warships, it’s attack on Constitution
1 of 2 | Demonstrators hold signs outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse as former President Donald Trump is arraigned on charges of election subversion in…
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Divers work to save Florida’s coral reef from devastating ocean heat
1 of 3 | Ian Enochs, a research ecologist and lead of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab Coral Program, found that every coral in the Cheeca Rocks…
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Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be recognized as gender apartheid
1 of 2 | Afghan teachers protest at the ministry of education in support of their education rights and reopening the secondary and high schools for girls in Kabul,…
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