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With the new year in full swing, tax season is cut around the corner. Millions of Americans must file their 2024 returns to the IRS by Tuesday, April 15, 2025.When can you start filing 2024 taxes?For taxpayers who had an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $84,000 or less in 2024, the IRS’ Free File Gilded Tax Software becomes available online on Friday, Jan. 10.For taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of more than $84,000, Free File Fillable Forms opens on Monday, Jan. 27.To access IRS Free File, visit IRS.gov/freefile.When does the IRS start processing returns?The IRS has not yet announced…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MICHAEL R. BLOODLOS ANGELES — Earlier this week, as hurricane-strength winds blew through bone-dry hillside subdivisions, Los Angeles saw its worst nightmare realized as long-predicted firestorms engulfed wide swaths of the nation’s second-largest city.For Mayor Karen Bass, the horror show was compounded by every chief executive’s worst nightmare. She was halfway around the globe, on a trip to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation.As her city faced its greatest crisis in decades, the first-term mayor confronted a critical test of her leadership two years after taking office. After rushing home to help manage the city’s…

Smarting from a lashing in St. Louis that was over not long after it began on Thursday, the Ducks moseyed along for a weekend double dip in the Metropolitan Division.They will exchange some Brotherly Love with the Flyers on Saturday before dealing with a Storm Watch in Carolina on Sunday.Saturday, they’ll face what’s sure to be the most hostile Philly crowd they’ve encountered. What had typically been a mundane inter-conference matchup gained new significance when 2022 lottery pick Cutter Gauthier refused to sign with the Flyers and ended up being traded to Anaheim last January.Gauthier, 20, has seldom if ever…

In the last few days, Los Angeles has experienced what may become the most expensive and destructive wildfire catastrophe in U.S. history. Entire communities in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena, and Altadena have been decimated, with at least ten lives lost and thousands of structures reduced to rubble. I personally had to evacuate from my Santa Monica home with my two young children, watching in shock as the flames visibly approached, while smoke choked our neighborhood. It is a tragedy for which local and state leaders cannot hide behind excuses—this was tragically predictable and preventable.For years, California’s top officials have known…

By Anne D’Innocenzio | The Associated PressKohl’s said Friday it was closing 27 underperforming stores in 15 states by April and a large distribution hub in San Bernardino, where nearly 700 people will lose their jobs.The company noted the San Bernardino e-commerce fulfillment center, or EFC, has been in operation since 2010, one of 15 such centers in Kohl’s supply chain network nationwide.Also see: Macy’s closing 66 stores, 9 in California“In recent years, Kohl’s has increased efficiencies with new technology capabilities at newer EFC facilities and has expanded the company’s ability to fulfill customer orders from store locations, allowing the company…

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southern California are still without power on Friday, Jan. 11, with some residents having gone without electricity since Tuesday because of the high winds sweeping the region.Some 278,000 Southern California Edison customers were affected by outages as of midday on Friday, either due to weather-related damage or as a result of pre-emptive safety shutoffs, SCE spokesperson Gabriela Ornelas said. Los Angeles Power and Water representatives could not be reached but may have as many as 100,000 outages, according to their website.Los Angeles Riverside and San Bernardino counties are all bearing the brunt of the…

By AAMER MADHANIWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to deliver a capstone address Monday on his foreign policy legacy, according to the White House.The outgoing president is expected to use his address at the State Department to highlight his administration’s efforts to expand NATO, rally dozens of allies to provide Ukraine with a steady stream of military aid to fight Russia, forge a historic agreement between Japan and South Korea to expand security and economic cooperation and more, according to a senior administration official who requested anonymity to preview plans for the address.Biden also picked the State Department for…

James Royal, Ph.D., Bankrate.comA Roth IRA is considered by many financial experts to be the best retirement plan out there. Workers can invest money on an after-tax basis and then withdraw their funds in retirement (after age 59 1/2) tax-free. They can enjoy decades of compounding growth and never owe the taxman a cent as long as they follow the plan’s rules. No wonder it’s the experts’ favorite plan!Because the Roth IRA eliminates one of the major costs of trading — taxes — some investors may think they can actively trade their way into even greater gains. They might consider…

The Santa Ana Wildfire Threat Index is forecasting that the worst of the winds is over. However, several additional rounds of moderate Santa Ana winds will occur through the middle of next week, with continued significant challenges on existing fires and potential for new fires. Extreme fuel dryness is also present over the region. Wind forecast animationAs the ongoing fires continue to impact the Los Angeles area, Spire Global’s Weather Risk Communications Forecasters team has analyzed key weather data and put together high-resolution forecast images highlighting critical factors such as wind gusts (see below) and soil conditions  — conditions that are…

Academy Award winner Mel Gibson was recording with podcaster Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas when he learned that his Malibu home was likely burning to the ground.“I was kind of ill at ease while we were talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire,” the polarizing filmmaker told NewsNation on Thursday.When Gibson returned home, he found his place “looked like Dresden.“LATEST ON PALISADES FIRE: Blaze tops 20,000 acres, crews achieve 8% containment as weather improvesThe Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church burns during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)Despite the tragedy, the…