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The IRS just released an important update to the “no tax on tips” provision included within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025. Let’s go through what the provisions say, as well as see if your job qualifies.

President Donald Trump has filed a new defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. A New York judge has dismissed two terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione. The federal government is sending the National Guard into Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s discuss all these stories together.

Let’s go through the most recent developments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—both from the government and civil side.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision on Sept. 8 in favor of the Trump administration, allowing it to, once again, set up ICE checkpoints in Southern California. Let’s go through the backstory of this ruling as well as what it means going forward.

Chagas disease has become so ubiquitous in the southern part of the United States that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently put out a report saying that it’s now time to consider it “endemic.” Let’s go through what the disease is, how it’s spread, and what you can do to keep yourself safe.

Scammers on Amazon have become more creative and brazen. Let's go through the top 6 scams that they use to try to steal your hard-earned money, so that you can avoid them.

Aside from the sanctions, war, and inflation, Iran is facing another major problem: a water crisis that is forcing the country's citizens to ration water (if they can find it). Let’s go through the causes of the crisis.

On Aug. 25, the FDA informed the public that the agency officially suspended its approval for Valneva’s Ixchiq vaccine.Ixchiq is a vaccine for Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine was initially approved to be administered in the United States in November 2023, under the FDA’s fast-tracked accelerated approval pathway.Let’s go through what the data showed, as well as why the FDA decided this move to stop the vaccine was necessary.

In a recent statement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his intention to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Let’s go through the history of this program, how it works, and the problems that Kennedy is attempting to fix.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that it has been able to get more than $55 million in compensation to American workers who were impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including those who had sought religious accommodation. Let's go through some of the more recent cases.

After discovering a case of bird flu jumping from a dairy cow to a human, scientists have been scrambling to reverse engineer that strain of the virus and test it in laboratory settings. To that end, let’s discuss several papers that came out of this effort.

One of the surprising aspects of the American electoral system is that while regular gerrymandering is frowned upon, racial gerrymandering is actually required by law. Meaning that if you redraw a congressional district to benefit your political party, you might get criticized for it, but that’s about all. Under certain circumstances, however, if you redraw a state’s congressional districts and don’t go out of your way to give more weight to minorities, then that is actually illegal. Essentially, states have to consider race when apportioning their congressional districts.At least, they have to for now—because it looks like the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to change this soon.Let’s go through the details together.

With midterm elections coming up next year, GOP state lawmakers in Texas are taking action. In a newly designed congressional redistricting map, they created five new right-leaning districts—the populations of which voted for Trump in the last presidential election.Texas Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on the map, but warrants for their arrests have now been issued.Let’s go through the details of this drama together.

On July 23, Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, released a statement regarding a former Atlantic City official who was being sentenced to 2 years behind bars for the crime of submitting fake mail-in ballots.He was found guilty for his role in the procurement, casting, and tabulation of fraudulent mail-in ballots submitted in connection with the general election on Nov. 8, 2022.The man in question is a political organizer and former president of Atlantic City’s city council—Craig Callaway. His story is quite interesting—because not only does it highlight a concrete example of major ballot fraud, but also, it shows us how this type of fraud cuts across party lines—being used by both Republicans and Democrats.We covered this story briefly when the charges against Callaway first came to light last year. Now let’s go through the details of his election operations in Atlantic City.

Let’s go through the most recent update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Long COVID—and then crunch some numbers to see how many people might be collecting disability payments for it.