The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas.
Taxpayers aren’t usually inclined to sympathize with the Internal Revenue Service, but this year they probably should. Thanks to a brutal combination of staff shortages and new complications in the tax code, the filing season now underway has put extraordinary strain on the agency.
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Iran launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf countries Monday, hours after Iranian state TV said Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei had been named as his father's successor. Meanwhile oil prices skyrocketed Monday, and Asian markets tumbled. AP's Luke Garratt explains more.
When fiction becomes campaign strategy, voters lose.
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Killing the tyrant doesn’t assure the tyranny will end.
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New York Times-verified images from a scene in southern Iran are horrific. A severed arm of a child lying in the rubble. Backpacks covered in ashes. The dead in body bags. Video of rescue workers digging through the remains of what had been a modest, two-story school near a military installation in southern Iran.
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Israel pounded Tehran with fresh strikes and Iran targeted Kurdish guerrilla groups in Iraq on Thursday as a spiralling war engulfed the Middle East. Earlier Thursday, Tehran said it had hit Iraq-based Kurdish groups, as the United States reportedly seeks to arm Iranian Kurdish guerillas to …
Thousands of people gathered in Minab, Iran, for mass funerals for those killed on Saturday when a girls' elementary school was hit by airstrikes. Iranian media is reporting that 168 children and staff were killed and the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an 'impartial a…
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The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas.
Taxpayers aren’t usually inclined to sympathize with the Internal Revenue Service, but this year they probably should. Thanks to a brutal combination of staff shortages and new complications in the tax code, the filing season now underway has put extraordinary strain on the agency.
Iran launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf countries Monday, hours after Iranian state TV said Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei had been named as his father's successor. Meanwhile oil prices skyrocketed Monday, and Asian markets tumbled. AP's Luke Garratt explains more.
When fiction becomes campaign strategy, voters lose.
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