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Tax season is here, and while you have until April 18 to file your return, you may want to think about doing so sooner rather than later. Here are a few expert tips on why:

Here are a few expert tips on why: Identity theft is a growing problem and one often tied to tax refund fraud, said Mark Steber, chief tax officer at Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. Once your return is filed with the IRS, the information — in particular your social security number — is locked and cannot be used again by anyone else. While some delays are expected this year for filers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit, the IRS still expects to issue more than... Читать дальше...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Protesters are demanding that charities move their upcoming galas from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Protesters are demanding that charities move their upcoming galas from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

NEW YORK (AP) — You can watch the Super Bowl online for free, but there are a few catches. For starters, you're out of luck on phones unless you're a Verizon customer. And if you're interested in the ads, you…

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, an attendee snaps a photo of the Vince Lombardi Trophy and team helmets during NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's news conference for Super Bowl 51, in Houston. The Atlanta Falcons will…

A Chinese couple, who are currently on a round-the-world trip, started their journey by flying a light plane to North America via the Russian Far East, according to Sputnik China.

“Israeli colonial settlement construction is destroying the peace process, undermining the two two-state option, and amounts to a war crime.”

The vice president says the decision will depend on cooperation against ISIS.

Google's Now Launcher has been a staple of the Google Play Store for years. But according to a leaked email obtained by Android Police, Google will be removing the Now Launcher from the Play Store and ceasing major updates in the next few months.

By James E. Wilson via our partners at Iris.xyz As most of us discovered in South Carolina’s historic flood, it is best to prepare for extreme conditions when everything is calm. The same principle applies to how we think about our investments. It is good to become emotionally prepared for market price variability when all is well.…

Wisconsin Republicans have decided to ignore what usually happens in midterm elections and go all in in trying to defeat U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin in 2018. They have already started to attack and smear Baldwin at every turn.

Going along with that, and kissing up to Trump, Scott Walker went after Baldwin to try to force her to vote for Trump's nomination for SCOTUS, Neil Gorsuch:

Thank you for letting me be your guide to the best of the blog-o-sphere this week, but my thanks really goes to the 28-plus bloggers who gave us hot takes, well-reasoned opinions, and thoughtful and often elegant prose. I really do think we are on the cusp of the second golden age of blogging.

For one to suggest that great fortunes are earned and inherited to our detriment amounts to willful blindness.

If you haven't had a chance to catch up on consumer news this week, here are some stories you may have missed.

Local Natives, “Dark Days (Classixx remix)” (Loma Vista). The catchiest song on Local Natives’ 2016 album “Sunlit Youth” gets the remix treatment by the soulful Los Angeles house duo Classixx. Both the original and this remix feature harmonies and a verse from singer Nina Persson of the Swedish...

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Learn about Machu Picchu and hiking the Inca Trail.

When, where: 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Adventure 16 store, 11161 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Admission, info: Free. (310) 473-4574.

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Nature walk

Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy on a guided walk to explore...

Andy Puzder, the fast-food executive who is President Trump’s nominee for Labor secretary, fondly recalls his first job: scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins for a buck an hour as a teenager near Cleveland.

Your California Bucket List: Essential adventures and experiences in the Golden State Feb. 5, 2017, 6 a.m. (Al Seib, Brian van der Brug, Rick Loomis, Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Here's our growing guide to essential California adventures, easy to edgy. We'll be adding to it daily all...

My first trip to China 15 years ago came at a pivotal moment. 

The country had just been admitted to the World Trade Organization. The largest construction project in the world — the Three Gorges Dam — was nearing completion.  

A few months before my visit, Beijing had been chosen as the host city...

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani stated that political trilateral initiative and the negotiations that took place in Kazakhstan’s Astana is a successful method that can be used as a pattern to end the Syrian crisis.

A man suspected of carrying out a fraud in Maidstone is in police custody.

Learn about the symptoms of multiple sclerosis that are specific to women. What are the causes and possible risk factors of MS for women?

Bill Casper was exposed to spearing at a young age and went on to found Sturgeon for Tomorrow.