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Not only are tax refunds up this year; so too are the number of people receiving them. Some 82% of filers have gotten money back, up from 78% last year. Accounting for the increases, the IRS says, are more generous tax credits for things like children living at home, first...
And then, a new source of hope appeared. A campaign pledge from President Barack Obama to close the U.S. facility holding suspected terrorists at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, became an executive order. Quickly, the jail's backers made a new pitch. Why not house those 240 detainees...
Jailed suffragists like Alice Paul used hunger strikes in the early 20th century to rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike," though he later buckled amid a public outcry over the forced feeding of the protesters and agreed to support the 19th Amendment granting women...
Souter had been a federal appeals court judge in Boston for just three months when Bush plucked him out of relative obscurity. Before that he had spent seven years on the New Hampshire state supreme court and 10 in the state attorney general's office. Neither job gave him much...
The stock market had absolutely no reaction to the Chrysler news. Shares in GM actually rose on the announcement by the President. It may be that Wall St. believes that GM's creditors will give in, now that they have watched the Administration steam-roll the Chrysler debt holders. That...