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IRS Proposes Stricter Eligibility Rules for Health Insurance Tax Credits

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have proposed new regulations tightening eligibility and verification requirements for federal health insurance subsidies, implementing changes enacted under President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation. The proposed rules would affect the Premium Tax Credit, a refundable federal tax credit that helps qualifying individuals and families purchase health Read More…

NCAA sues DeWine over eligibility executive order

(The Center Square) – The NCAA on Friday sued Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in federal court after the governor issued an executive order earlier this week giving Ohio colleges and universities the option to expand the eligibility options for some student-athletes. “In June, the NCAA adopted a new eligibility model, giving all otherwise eligible student-athletes Read More…

Federal Reserve Report Shows Rising Family Wealth

WASHINGTON—American families saw modest gains in income and wealth between 2022 and 2025, but a growing share struggled to keep up with debt payments, according to a new Federal Reserve report examining the financial condition of U.S. households. The Federal Reserve Board released its 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances on Friday, providing a detailed look Read More…

Treasury Targets Alleged Iranian Abuse of Religious Charity Networks

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury Department is stepping up scrutiny of religious charity networks that it says the Iranian government uses to divert donations, enrich regime officials and finance terrorist organizations. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, issued an alert under Operation Economic Outcast urging financial institutions to identify and report suspicious transactions Read More…

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Macon County student finishes high school at 16

MACON COUNTY, Ga. — Chance Simpson modeled his desire for success after his older brother. “My brother Ronald Simpson, he graduated from Bethune Cookman and now he’s in the military right now,” Simpson said. Through his community service work, he realized a lot of kids in Marshallville grew up without role models. “I understand that Read More…

Newslookup.com Free Access Alert

Newslookup.com is one of the oldest news search engines on the internet yet a very small company. Hosting thousands of feeds through our API, 100,000+ news category pages, a 60+ million news article archive and serving millions of page views a month globally. Providing this service as well as free access of course all comes Read More…

Ex-FBI analyst sentenced for accessing activist’s emails to ‘protect Mueller’

A former FBI analyst was sentenced to seven days in jail Friday after admitting he illegally accessed an email address belonging to a right-wing Washington lobbyist as part of his efforts to expose an alleged smear campaign against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. SPECIAL COUNSEL NOTIFIES FBI OF ALLEGED SCHEME TO PAY WOMEN FOR FALSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MUELLER The former Read More…

California Considers Calling THC in Pot a Risk to Moms-to-Be

More than three years after California voters broadly legalized marijuana, a state panel is considering if its potent, high-inducing chemical—THC—should be declared a risk to pregnant women and require warnings. Studies have indicated that a rising number of mothers-to-be have turned to marijuana products for relief from morning sickness and headaches, though it’s effectiveness has Read More…

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To celebrate a game-winning pass break-up against the Buffalo Bills last week, Marcus Peters jumped into the crowd of friendly fans in enemy territory and crushed a beer. [Watch live NFL games on the Yahoo Sports app, here’s how] The NFL decided it just couldn’t let that fun moment happen without a little discipline, and Bud Light Read More…

A woman has passed the grueling SEAL officer test for the first time, but she won’t join their ranks

The Navy marked a first earlier this year when a woman completed Navy SEAL officer assessment and selection, Military.com has learned. At the quarterly meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services in December, a Navy official disclosed that the woman had reached the end of the physically and mentally demanding two-week SOAS process in September. Read More…

China Spares Trade in First Retaliation to U.S.’s Hong Kong Law

China avoided measures related to trade in its first actions retaliating against the U.S. over a law supporting Hong Kong’s protesters, instead vowing to sanction some rights organizations and halt warship visits to the city. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a news briefing Monday that U.S. groups targeted for sanctions included the National Endowment Read More…

Kylie Jenner just agreed to sell a majority stake in her makeup company for $600 million

Kylie Jenner has sold a majority stake in Kylie Cosmetics to beauty conglomerate Coty Inc. Coty, owned by the European investment firm JAB Ltd., acquired a 51% controlling stake in the company for $600 million, valuing the brand at $1.2 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that Jenner will remain the “public face” of the brand. Jenner founded the brand in 2015, and Read More…

Boeing lead pilot warned about flight-control system tied to 737 Max crashes, then told regulators to delete it from manuals

A Boeing pilot warned about problems with the flight-control program on the 737 Max that was implicated in two fatal crashes, said he “unknowingly” lied to regulators, and told the Federal Aviation Administration not to include the system in pilot manuals before regulators deemed the plane safe for the public in 2017, according to messages released Friday. The messages Read More…

Mohammed bin Salman billed himself as the young strongman who could transform Saudi Arabia. Two years later, he has little to show for it.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the brash Saudi crown prince who strode confidently onto the world stage two years ago, now cuts a much-diminished, if not humbled, figure. His regional strongman reputation is blunted and his much-vaunted economic plans have failed to move the needle. Pressured into an apparent acceptance of responsibility for the murder of the Saudi Read More…

NBC News Chief Unleashes on Ronan Farrow in New Staff Memo

NBC News on Monday pushed back hard against damning claims made about the network in Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch & Kill, dubbing some of the allegations a “smear,” “lie,” and “conspiracy theory.” In a lengthy memo sent to staff, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim attempted to fact-check Farrow’s assertion that network higher-ups had advanced knowledge Read More…

LeBron under fire after blaming China row on ‘misinformed’ Rockets GM

Los Angeles (AFP) – Basketball superstar LeBron James was accused of turning a blind eye to Chinese repression on Tuesday after he criticized a Houston Rockets executive for angering China with a “misinformed” tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong. James told reporters that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey “wasn’t educated” on Hong Kong and should Read More…

The top 20 millionaire-producing US colleges where most of the ultra-wealthy alumni are self-made

In July, Wealth-X released their findings on which US colleges have produced the most millionaires. The study focused on those alumni deemed to be ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals: those with fortunes of $30 million or more. The report analyzed the Wealth-X database of the world’s wealthiest people and used Wealth-X’s Wealth and Investable Assets Model to estimate the number Read More…

Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Edges Down to 41%

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media as 41% currently have “a great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.” This latest reading represents a four-percentage-point dip since last year and marks the end of improvements in back-to-back years after hitting an Read More…

DOJ files civil suit against Edward Snowden over new memoir

The Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for violating his non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and the NSA by writing a new book about his leaks. Snowden’s memoir, “Permanent Record,” hit bookshelves Tuesday. Snowden, who famously leaked classified documents about government surveillance, has avoided prosecution by living in Russia. EDWARD Read More…

GM strike costing up to $90 million a day as union members hold out for a ‘fair deal’

DETROIT — The music and chants from outside a General Motors assembly plant at midnight Monday could be heard from several blocks away as United Auto Workers members picketed the plant. “No contract, no cars!” chanted dozens of workers outside GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, on the outskirts of the city. Others yelled, “No more tiers,” in reference to Read More…

Election problems: Video, reports of machines automatically changing votes from Waller to Reeves

There have been at least three reports confirmed by officials of voting machines in two counties changing voters’ selections in the state’s GOP governor primary runoff. In one case, the glitch was caught on video. Tuesday morning, Facebook user Sally Kate Walker posted a video showing what appeared to be a touch-screen machine changing someone’s selection Read More…