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The Trump administration may have shuttered Direct File — the IRS’s short-lived experiment in tax-preparation software — but it doesn’t mean you have to pay to file your taxes. There are plenty of ...

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IRS Direct File, a free online system for filing federal taxes, has been scrapped for 2026. Almost 300,000 people used IRS Direct File in 2025. So, are they out of luck, along with millions of others ...

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Given the crippling expense of paying college athletes, the University of California system’s investment manager has offered the Big Ten athletic conference $2.4 billion upfront in exchange for 10% of ...

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Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...