Backlogs, Job Holes Plague IRS in Tax Season After DOGE Cuts

The IRS is undertaking its first full filing season since DOGE slashed a quarter of the agency’s 100,000-person staff. IRS employees have challenges: a backlog of returns, a shortage of employees, and HR and IT workers processing returns.

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Is Social Media Big Tobacco 2.0? Suits Over the Impact on Teens

In the first of its kind, a jury found Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive. The verdict threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms.

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Taylor Swift, UMG Accused of Infringing ‘Showgirl’ Trademark

Taylor Swift and UMG Recordings Inc. infringe a Las Vegas performer’s “Confessions of a Showgirl” trademark, according to a new lawsuit.

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