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Have you experienced a disaster? You have more time to file your taxes

NEW YORK — If your life has been upended by a wildfire, hurricane, flood, tornado, or another disaster this past year, the IRS recognizes that you may need more time to file your taxes and grants you an automatic extension beyond the normal filing deadline, which is Tuesday. You’re also permitted to write off a […]

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McAlpine wins £30m Newcastle contract

CGI of the North East Space Skills & Technology Centre Sir Robert McAlpine’s £30m contract award follows on from a pre-construction services agreement (PCSA). The contract comprises a full demolition, new build and extension of the existing Wynne Jones building on Northumbria University’s Newcastle campus. The project is backed by investment from the UK Space

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China's exports jump 12.4% in March as bigger US tariff hikes loom

BANGKOK — China’s exports jumped 12.4% in March from a year earlier in a last-minute flurry of activity as companies rushed to beat increases in U.S. tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, and analysts forecast sharp setbacks ahead. Imports fell 4.3% to $211.3 billion in March, the customs administration reported, far exceeded by exports

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The dead in upstate New York plane crash included 2022 NCAA woman of the year and family members

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes on a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday. The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon Saturday in a muddy field in Copake,

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Melbourne Cinema Says Threats Caused It To Cancel Screening Of No Other Land

A fundraising screening of the Oscar-winning documentary film on the Israeli displacement of the Palestinian community, No Other Land, has been cancelled by a Melbourne cinema after organisers the Jewish Council of Australia said the cinema received threats. JCA had arranged with Classic Cinema in Elsternwick to host the screening of the Palestinian-Israeli Academy Award-winning

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Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say. “We haven’t had a strong immunization

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Some top tech leaders have embraced Trump. That's created a political divide in Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Like many in the tech industry, Jeremy Lyons used to think of himself as a relatively apolitical guy. The only time he had participated in a demonstration before now was in the opening days of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, when he joined fellow Google workers walking out of the company’s

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