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Month: September 2024

Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high wealth tax dodgers

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel

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A pregnant shark was tagged and monitored for 5 months, then disappeared. Scientists now know its fate

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When scientists attached a tag to a pregnant porbeagle shark in October 2020 to learn more about the creature’s habitat, they didn’t expect their tracker to capture evidence of how large sharks hunt one another. But when the tracker registered some unexpected activity in March 2021, the scientists realized

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Brazil’s Lula fires human rights minister accused of sexual misconduct

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following reports he was involved in sexual misconduct. In a statement released early Friday evening, the presidential palace said Lula considers the keeping the minister in his position to be unsustainable considering the nature

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