Here's what to know and how to tune in to this year's Cotton Bowl game between Ohio State and Texas.
The IRS on Friday announced Jan. 27 as the official start date of the 2025 tax season, and expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 tax deadline. The federal tax collector’s Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the government directly without using commercial tax preparation software, will be available to taxpayers in 25 states starting Jan. 27, up from 12 states that were part of last year's pilot program. The pilot program in 2024 allowed people in certain states with very simple W-2s to calculate and submit their returns directly to the IRS.
Rodney Nickerson "didn't think it was going to be this devastating," according to his daughter