New $2,000 Charitable Deduction Starts in 2026
📋 Key Facts ✓ The 'big beautiful' budget bill created a $2,000 above-the-line deduction on charitable donations. ✓ This deducti...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ The 'big beautiful' budget bill created a $2,000 above-the-line deduction on charitable donations. ✓ This deducti...
The Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance becomes operational in Hong Kong on January 20, and will enhance child protections. It contains a mechanism for the early and effective detection of ch...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Governor Kathy Hochul signed the RAISE Act on Friday to hold large AI developers accountable. ✓ The act requires publishi...
Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox lays out the obstacles blocking progress on Trump’s plan for a ‘new Middle East’....
In addition to ending fighting, the agreement calls for no further military movements by either side and no violations of either side's airspace for military purposes. (Image credit: AP)...
Former prime minister Najib Razak has already been convicted for graft and money laundering linked to 1MDB investment fund. The latest verdict, however, is likely to rock Malaysia's ruling coalition t...
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-require-social-media-platforms-display-mental-health-warnings-2025-12-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46402609 Poi...
A novel approach by South Korea to stop its rural areas from dying by paying people to live there appears to be working. Okcheon in North Chungcheong province saw its population grow by almost 1,000 i...
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/ice-high-tech-surveillance-lower-privacy-guardrails-00705401 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394228 Points: 15 # Comments: 2...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Ghana legalizes cryptocurrency trading and activities. ✓ Central bank is authorized to regulate the sector. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Under President Trump, the SEC has backed down from nearly all its fights with crypto firms. ✓ The biggest lawsuits and i...
The ceasefire, which came into force around noon local time, calls for no further military movements by either side and no violations of either side’s airspace for military purposes....
From political gaffes and diplomatic stumbles to courtroom fury and security breaches, many of Singapore’s viral moments in 2025 showed how quickly everyday incidents in the city state could turn into...
Bari Weiss Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press CBS News chief Bari Weiss sent a memo to staff defending her decision to hold a "60 Minutes" piece. Weiss made the decision t...
President Donald Trump's rule to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is set to go into effect in July 2026. Rattankun Thongbun/Getty Images Changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness...
Thousands of student-loan borrowers are waiting for their income-driven repayment applications to be approved. nirat/Getty Images Over 800,000 student-loan borrowers are waiting for their income-drive...
Germany needs a fund to tackle loneliness, which is now hitting under-30s as well as older people, a body representing 10,000 towns and municipalities said. DW has the latest....
The US Department of Justice said it needed time to sift through almost a million newly recovered documents related to the case. Senators from both parties criticized the delay of the release....
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA - JUNE 24: U.S. Navy sailors stand along the deck as they prepare for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to depart from the Naval Station Norfolk on June 24, 2025, in Norfolk, V...
‘Over a million’ additional documents uncovered that will take time to review, according to the DoJ...