SEN. Bong Go urged the National Youth Commission (NYC), and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to utilize funds already allocated by Congress, warning against leaving budgets idle while ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several months after the Trump administration ended the IRS’ direct file program, some lawmakers are working to reinstate it. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other Democrats introduced ...

Only 2% of federal income tax returns were filed through Free File, despite 70% of filers qualifying. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Listen, filing for your taxes can be annoying enough. And paying places like TurboTax to do it can add to the aggravation. So, here’s how you can file your taxes at no cost to yourself. According to a ...

The South Florida Water Management District held a python hunt in December with cash prizes. Kevin Pavlidis won multiple awards, including for most pythons captured and the longest python. The ...

Hey Watchdog! I saw a short item in the news recently that the Internal Revenue Service was stopping something called Direct File. I never heard of it and wonder if it will affect me. Watchdog: Direct ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is expanding citywide a program that allows Chicago police officers to directly file charges in some low-level felony gun cases, following a review of pilots ...

The IRS has ended the Direct File program, which let some taxpayers file their annual returns for free using software developed by the government. Many tax preparation companies opposed this, as did ...

The Internal Revenue Service’s free online filing system is no more. First rolled out as a limited pilot in 2024 under the Biden administration, the Direct File program allowed taxpayers in certain ...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is officially ending Direct File, the free, government-run tax-filing pilot program that the Biden administration started last year. Instead, the Trump ...

Taxpayers in 25 states will need to find a new way to file their taxes in 2026 as the IRS has shut down the free Direct File option. Details are limited, but the IRS has confirmed the program launched ...