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So far, 23 states have joined the new federal tax-credit program that allows people to donate to organizations that give scholarships for private school tuition or extra support services for public ...

Motorola has really improved its software rollout pace, delivering faster updates this time, and hopefully, it will only keep getting better. The latest Android 16 update is already available to over ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

BabyCenter, a digital parenting resource which publishes annual reports on trending and popular baby names, is launching "a first-of-its-kind" loyalty program "designed to cheer parents on at every ...

As President Donald Trump’s core Big Beautiful Bill legislation advanced through Congress late last spring, he also began talking about a new government investment plan for kids. “This is a pro-family ...

Punxsutawney Phil has spoken: six more weeks of winter are on the horizon. On Monday morning, the famed groundhog emerged from his tree stump on Gobbler’s Knob in rural Pennsylvania and, according to ...

Many of the new deductions created by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act have created significant questions for taxpayers—especially now that we've officially entered the tax filing season for 2025 ...

A new partnership between the city and Hefty could help Tucsonans more easily dispose of hard-to-recycle plastics. The program is an expansion of a pilot project that the department has been running ...