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In this March 17, 2020, file photo, people wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

IRS says enhanced unemployment benefits is taxable income

Millions of people who have never collected unemployment benefits before got checks this spring and summer, in some cases reaching more than $1,000 a week -- far exceeding what some of them made in their jobs.

August 19, 2020
The person throwing the cloth was wearing a black full-face gas mask with white marker writing that said “TRNG ONLY,” and a visible lot number for the filter canister. (Photo from Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office)

Larry Williams Jr., Air Force airman, charged in Utah riots

Federal investigators charged an Air Force airman with arson during May riots in Utah, and said they were able to connect him to the crime because he used his distinctive government-issued gas mask, which they were able to match to video of the perpetrator.

August 19, 2020
President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. President Trump is asking a federal judge to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in U.S. District Court in New York.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump border wall nears 300-mile mark

President Trump's border wall construction will reach 300 miles at the end of this week, a top Army Corps of Engineers official said on Tuesday as he gave Mr. Trump a tour of the border region in Arizona.

August 18, 2020
Evelyn Lara, 19, with her brother Iker, 7, opens the door as Ricky Hurtado, a Democratic candidate for the North Carolina statehouse, canvasses voters in a largely Latino trailer community, in Burlington, N.C., Sunday, March 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Campaigns slow to rally Latino voters

Most Latinos say they have yet to hear from the presidential campaigns, according to new polling released Monday that the sponsors said could signal less engagement in this year's election.

August 17, 2020
Federal prosecutors in Utah said they identified a person on video in front of a burning police car as Lateesha Richards. Ms. Richards now faces charges, as do other people detected through technology. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. attorney’s office)

Rioters snared by own Facebook videos, grandma’s review

The Black Lives Matter revolution is, it turns out, being televised -- and livestreamed, tweeted and otherwise shared online. Now police are digging through the data and having stunning success in tracking down perpetrators months after the mayhem.

August 16, 2020
In this Sept. 18, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, in Otay Mesa, Calif., as acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump illegally installed top DHS officials: Government watchdog

Leading Democrats called on the top two officials at Homeland Security to step down after Congress's watchdog ruled they were both illegally installed in their jobs, and called into question all the weighty decisions the two men have made in the months since they took office.

August 14, 2020
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., center, listen as Attorney General William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kamala Harris had ‘zero effect’ as senator

Democrats celebrating Sen. Kamala D. Harris' pick as their party's vice presidential nominee cited her groundbreaking ancestry, her personal story and her work as a district attorney and later California attorney general.

August 13, 2020
President Donald Trump gives thumbs up during a "Rolling to Remember Ceremony," to honor the nation's veterans and POW/MIA, from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump can accept nomination from White House, watchdog rules

President Trump can accept the Republican presidential nomination from the White House, according to a ruling by the Office of Special Counsel, the independent federal agency that polices the intersection between government and politics.

August 13, 2020
In this Feb. 11, 2005, file photo, trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Feds paid Social Security to woman who died in 1971

The Social Security Administration was still paying benefits this year to a woman who died nearly 50 years ago, and her nephew had been cashing the checks -- collecting a staggering $459,000 over the years, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

August 12, 2020
In this Oct. 15, 2019, photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate in Westerville, Ohio. Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Harris as his running mate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Kamala Harris compared ICE officers to KKK

Sen. Kamala D. Harris, Democrats' new presumptive vice presidential nominee, once compared ICE to the Ku Klux Klan, telling the agency's chief there was a "perception" that his personnel were using "fear and intimidation" in the same way the KKK did.

August 11, 2020
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, speaks with reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Federal budget deficit slows as IRS sees record tax receipts

Uncle Sam set a new monthly record for income in July with $563 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday, as taxpayers finally paid up after the IRS delayed the normal April filing deadline because of the coronavirus.

August 10, 2020
In this image made from video released by Karina Brown, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, right, stands at a fence guarding a federal courthouse as tear gas drifts by early July 23, 2020, in Portland Oregon, during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent by President Donald Trump to quell unrest in the city. (Karina Brown via AP)

Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who for weeks had blamed President Trump for fueling riots in his Oregon city, on Thursday acknowledged that the violence has continued even after the federal presence was curtailed, and told peaceful protesters to stay home.

August 6, 2020