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The tax deadline is here and the Internal Revenue Service has released IRS2Go 5.0, an update to the only official IRS smartphone application, compatible with both Apple and Android devices. Download IRS2Go free of charge for Android devices from the Google Play Store or from the Apple App Store for Apple devices. Use it to […]
Summer driving will cost you more this year. The Government estimates that prices at the pump are likely to be 14% higher than last summer — an average of $2.74 per gallon. CLICK HERE to read why. Although gas is well below the $4 a gallon prices of 2008 it has risen because of the […]
On Friday, Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder said testing showed the levels of lead in the city’s water are below the federal limit and the water’s quality is “well within the standards,” and has ended the free bottled water program. However, some residents don’t believe it’s safe to drink or use yet. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who […]
Many people (men, women and children) have been killed the latest suspected chemical attack in Syria. At least 48 people died over the weekend in the rebel-held town of Douma; most observers believe those killed were victims of a poison gas attack. Images of women and children gasping and convulsing spread around the globe quickly. The […]
On Wednesday, New York City police officers shot and killed a black man after he pointed what they believed was a gun at them, authorities said. CNN reports that it wasn’t until after the shooting, officers discovered the man was holding “a pipe with some sort of knob on it,” Chief of Department Terence A. Monahan […]
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump officially signed a memorandum to deploy the National Guard to the southwest border. Key details are still being hashed out, such as the numbers of troops, how long they will be deployed, how much it will cost and where they will go. According to WRAL News, the memo Trump signed […]
Iconic poet, author and civil rights activist who wrote powerful books and poetry like: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie (1971), And Still I Rise(1978), Dr. Maya Angelou would have been 90th today. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928, Angelou is regarded as one of the […]
Fifty years ago, a single gunshot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s April 4, 1968, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. steps outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and leans over the balcony to speak to one of his […]
The woman who was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years and South Africa’s first black First Lady, has passed away after a long illness at the age of 81. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was also a South African anti-apartheid activist and was once President of the African National Congress Women’s League. A statement from the Mandela family said […]
A family’s SUV found at the bottom of a California cliff last week may have been deliberately driven off the road, police told media Sunday. The bodies of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, were discovered inside their overturned SUV near a remote stretch of Highway 1 in Northern California last Monday. Emergency responders […]
