By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury brought in $129.82 billion in total tax receipts on Tuesday, the annual tax filing deadline, compared with $75.53 billion a day earlier, the department’s daily financial statement showed on Wednesday. The collections brought total deposits into the Treasury General Account at the Federal Reserve to $283.53…
By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old U.S. Air National Guardsman facing criminal charges for leaking top-secret military intelligence records online will remain in jail, according to court filings. Jack Douglas Teixeira of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was due to appear in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to determine whether he…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump wants to attend next week’s trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of rape, but may not because of security issues the former U.S. president’s appearance would cause, his lawyer said on Wednesday. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan…
By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox, which resulted in Tuesday’s $787.5 million settlement, is part of a broader legal campaign by the company to seek accountability from companies and individuals whom it claims have spread falsehoods about its technology. MIKE LINDELL Dominion in February 2021 filed a $1.3 billion…
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s president on Wednesday presented a set of security measures in response to surging crime rates in the Central American country, which is currently on track this year to beat 2022’s record murder rate. “I want people to be able to walk down the street in peace,” President Rodrigo Chaves…
By James Pearson and Raphael Satter BELFAST/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -British officials are sounding the alarm over the widespread abuse of surveillance software and hackers-for-hire, saying that thousands of people were being targeted each year by an industry they described as posing an increasingly unpredictable threat. Britain’s National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC), part of its GCHQ eavesdropping spy…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Florida education officials voted on Wednesday to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, expanding on a law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that barred such lessons for younger students and was derided by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The new…
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted in favor of restoring tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations on Wednesday and reversing President Joe Biden’s earlier suspension, setting the resolution up for a vote by the full House. Biden suspended tariffs last June as part of a key…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said concerns of Republican lawmakers that last year’s record drawdown of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve damaged the system’s delicate salt caverns were unfounded, a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed. The administration last year sold an unprecedented 180 million barrels of oil from…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel urged Congress on Wednesday to approve a $1.8 billion annual budget increase as Republicans criticized the agency’s spending plans for $80 billion in new long-term funding as too heavy on enforcement. Werfel told a Senate Finance Committee hearing that the Biden administration’s $14.1 billion fiscal 2024…
