The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced major changes aimed at modernizing the federal agency's technology and improving its employee tools to help taxpayers. The changes‚ planned for the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years‚ will be brought in during the next 12 to 18 months. They were detailed as part of the annual update on the agency's Strategic Operating Plan‚ which shows how the IRS is using resources made available by the Inflation Reduction Act to deliver changes benefiting taxpayers....

In a move that defies logic and jeopardizes national security‚ the Biden administration is considering plans that could see Palestinian refugees — many suspected to be highly trained terrorists — relocated to the United States. This proposal is akin to leaving the coop open for the foxes‚ under the guise of rescue operations. Leaked internal government documents‚ as uncovered by CBS News‚ suggest an eerie readiness to use the United States Refugee Admissions Program to import individuals from a...

College campuses across the United States have seen massive upheaval due to pro-Palestinian protests. Columbia University‚ the school with likely the most high-profile protest encampment‚ was forced to navigate difficult circumstances with the nation watching. The school has been criticized by people on both sides of the issue‚ and many other colleges now share the spotlight.

At Columbia University‚ tensions between the administration and students protesting over Israel's war in Gaza have reached the point that scores of New York City police marched onto campus to clear an encampment and arrest demonstrators who had commandeered a classroom building. It was the second time in as many weeks that the administration has called on police to control the protests. Students have been suspended‚ and threatened with expulsion. Police are now stationed around-the-clock on...

The first documented appearance of a sworn police officer patrolling a college campus was in 1894 at Yale University. Generally‚ there have been two approaches to police on university or college campuses. Initially‚ university administrators asked local police to respond to issues with antiwar demonstrators during the Vietnam War and with women’s rights protests in the 1960s. When many of those encounters did not go very well for anyone‚ campus police departments were created...

The U.S. economy added 175‚000 jobs and the jobless rate ticked higher to 3.9 percent in April‚ according to new Labor Department data released Friday. After several hotter-than-expected jobs reports‚ April’s employment gains fell short of economists’ expectations of 240‚000 new jobs and a 3.8 percent unemployment rate.

An officer entering Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday evening to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration fired his gun inside the hall‚ in an incident that is now under review by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office a spokesperson confirmed Thursday evening in response to an inquiry from THE CITY. The gun fired did not appear to be aimed at anyone and no one was injured‚ said Doug Cohen‚ a spokesperson for Bragg’s office‚ who said the office’s Police Accountability...

Columbia law students pleaded with the law school's administration to cancel all final exams and pass all students for the work they did the past semester after they were &;quot;irrevocably shaken&;quot; by arrests at the Gaza Camp protest this week.   &;quot;As the Administrative Board of student editors of the Columbia Law Review‚ we urge the Law School to cancel exams and give all students passing grades for their work throughout the semester‚&;quot; the student board said in a press release....

The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in April while the unemployment rate rose‚ lifting hopes that the Federal Reserve will be able to cut interest rates in the coming months. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 175‚000 on the month‚ below the 240‚000 estimate from the Dow Jones consensus‚ the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.9% against expectations it would hold steady at 3.8%.

US stocks soared higher Friday morning after new data showed that US job growth slowed considerably last month. The blue-chip Dow was higher by 488 points‚ or 1.2%; the S&;P 500 was up 1.1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.8%. The economy added just 175‚000 new jobs in April‚ according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data‚ far below economists’ expectations for 235‚000 jobs and the 315‚000 jobs added in March. The unemployment rate ticked higher as well‚ to 3.9% from 3.8% the month...