A former staffer for Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, pleaded guilty Tuesday to siphoning over $20,000 from her former boss's bank account to pay her own credit card bills.

Courtney Hruska, 40, admitted to committing felony wire fraud at a court hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but Hruska is likely to receive far less time when she is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in June.

Hruska told prosecutors she didn't think she'd be found out because she knew the victim was not "tech savvy" and "did not use electronic banking in any form" so she would not get real-time alerts about the payments, the statement of facts said. The victim discovered the transfers in late 2024, when a personal check she wrote was returned for insufficient funds, the court filing said.

Hruska initially tried to claim she wasn't the person responsible, the statement of facts said. "Throughout the investigation into the defendant’s conduct, the defendant repeatedly told investigators — both state and federal — as well as Victim and Victim’s representatives, that 'hackers from the dark web' must have been responsible for causing the wires to be sent from Victim’s bank account to pay the defendant’s personal credit card bills," the filing said. "In truth, these repeated claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false."

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Friday called for federal reparations for the children and families who have been “traumatized” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers amid the chaotic and lethal enforcement of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

Jayapal made her case during a congressional hearing called “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children,” which focused on his nationwide ICE deployments and the need for “defensive reform” to prevent federal agents from continuing to inflict emotional damage.

“And then we also need offensive actions around prosecutions,” the Washington Democrat added Friday. “We need real accountability, because at the end of the day, the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted.”

She continued, “They need to be brought before us and they need to be held [to] account for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”

Amid the Iran war, some “tax protesters” are planning to withhold some or all of their federal income taxes owed.

However, the IRS has said repeatedly that moral or religious beliefs don’t exempt filers from their tax responsibility.

What’s more, failing to file returns or underpaying taxes can trigger hefty IRS penalties and other consequences, experts say.

Chicago attorney Rachel Cohen owes more than $8,000 in federal income taxes — but has intentionally left that balance unpaid. "I'm not paying my federal income tax this year," Cohen said in a widely viewed TikTok video from March 2 about her decision.

The 31-year-old community organizer filed her federal tax return, which shows a balance due of $8,830, according to a tax document reviewed by CNBC. But Cohen said she deliberately chose to withhold payment of that bill as a protest against immigration detention, including ICE facilities, and U.S. strikes on Iran launched without congressional approval.

While voicing resistance to taxes is legal, refusing to pay taxes owed can violate federal law and lead to serious penalties. "It's completely OK to be unhappy and be dissatisfied with our government," said Josh Youngblood, owner of The Youngblood Group, a Dallas-based tax firm. "But not paying taxes, or engaging in tax fraud or evasion, is not the answer."

Detroit Diesel, a manufacturer of diesel engines and axles in Detroit, has announced the addition of a third shift, the recall of laid-off workers, and the hiring of dozens more, in response to strategic tariff pressures.

In October, after months of lobbying, the federal government imposed a 25 percent tariff on heavy truck imports to prevent further offshoring and drive investment in the US heavy truck industry. The move is the latest win for UAW members in the union’s fight for reshoring and reinvesting in good union jobs.

“Strategic, targeted tariffs are an important tool in the toolbox to undo the damage of our free trade disaster and bring back good union jobs to the U.S.,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “Companies like Detroit Diesel, and their parent company Daimler Truck North America, need to step up to reinvest in the workers who make the product and stop laying off American workers while making billions in profit. We applaud this first step in the right direction.”

“Detroit Diesel UAW members build a high-quality product that makes this company billions, and it’s only right that this company would invest right here in Michigan and recognize that success,” said UAW Region 1A Director Mark DePaoli. “We congratulate our members who are coming off of layoff and all those who will join our union with the creation of these new jobs.”

The IndyCar Series is set for a run through the streets of Washington D.C. on Aug. 22-23, 2026, which will mark the first time a race has been held around the National Mall (Note: The American Le Mans Series raced in D.C. in 2002, but not around the aforementioned monument.) The event is part of the 250th anniversary celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The landmark weekend will be free and open to the public.

The temporary street circuit will feature a 1.7-mile, seven-turn layout, which includes a run around the National Mall and incorporating a backdrop of some of America’s most historic and iconic monuments.

It all begins with a 0.4-mile frontstretch along Pennsylvania Avenue, framed by the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol, with a pit lane area adjacent to the track between Turns 1 and 2. The cars and stars of North America’s premier open-wheel championship will also race by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the National Archives as part of the challenging and scenic course layout.

“This circuit is unlike any other street race we’ve seen,” said two-time IndyCar champion and back-to-back Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden, who had the opportunity to tour the circuit on Monday morning.

Landing a remote job in 2026 is only slightly less competitive than cracking an NBA roster. And just like making a professional basketball team, there are basically two ways to do it: Be an all-star, or an affordable alternative.

We appear to be reaching remote-work equilibrium, after years of conflicting trends and predictions. The share of open jobs listed as remote on the career site Indeed has held steady between 8% and 8.6% for the past six months. That’s roughly triple what the rate was in 2019 but markedly less than it was in 2022. Back then, more than 10% of jobs were advertised as remote, and many others were understood to be for obvious reasons.

If you manage to get an offer, brace for a cost-of-living adjustment. The days of collecting New York salaries at New Hampshire and New Mexico addresses are waning.

Millions of people got a taste of the WFH life and loved it. When you apply to work from home today, it feels like every single one of them is in the candidate pool with you. Forty percent of applications submitted through LinkedIn are for remote roles, even though those jobs represent only 8% to 9% of listings.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent Supreme Court litigator who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court was convicted Wednesday of tax evasion and related charges stemming from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker player.

A federal jury found SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial in Greenbelt, Maryland. Jurors deliberated for approximately two days before convicting Goldstein of one count of tax evasion, four of eight counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, four counts of willful failure to timely pay taxes, and three counts of false statements on loan applications.

Goldstein was charged with failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in gambling income. Justice Department prosecutors also accused him of diverting money from his law firm to pay gambling debts and falsely deducting gambling debts as business expenses.

Goldstein argued more than 40 cases before the Supreme Court before retiring in 2023. He was part of the legal team that represented Democrat Al Gore in the Supreme Court litigation over the 2000 election ultimately won by Republican President George W. Bush.

The men’s United States hockey team got into the Olympic spirit and stayed in the Village alongside other athletes during the Winter Games in Milan-Cortina.

Perhaps the reason for the United States’ improved showing was the fact that the team stayed in the Olympic Village. While Canada opted to stay offsite in a luxury hotel, Team USA stayed in the Olympic Village alongside other athletes — which was a benefit, according to center Dylan Larkin.

“Olympic spirit, team chemistry, and there's something to that,” Larkin said. “When you're around all the other athletes, the best athletes in the world, and you get to talk to them and be around that environment, it's contagious.

“Being around winners, being around great athletes, was something that I'm very appreciative we did.”

Fani Willis is asking a Fulton County judge to dismiss nearly $17 million in attorney fee claims filed by defendants in the dismissed 2023 election interference case, arguing that the law they are relying on is unconstitutional, vague, and being misapplied.

In a brief filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, Willis moved to intervene in proceedings tied to a 2025 state law that allows defendants to seek reimbursement of legal fees if a prosecutor is disqualified for "improper conduct" and the case is later dismissed

Willis argues the defendants are not eligible for reimbursement because her disqualification stemmed from the "appearance of impropriety," not a finding of actual improper conduct.

The brief also argues there was no causal connection between her disqualification and the later dismissal of the indictment. According to the filing, the successor prosecutor's decision to seek a nolle prosequi - a prosecutor or plaintiff's official notice voluntarily withdrawing a pending criminal charge or civil lawsuit - did not rely on the issues that led to her removal. Willis contends the statute requires a nexus between the disqualification and the dismissal - not merely that one event happened after the other.

CNN: The annual rate of inflation slowed to an eight-month low last month, new data showed Friday.

Consumer prices rose 2.4% for the 12 months ending in January, a sharp cooling from the 2.7% rate notched in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Consumer Price Index. On a monthly basis, prices rose a better-than-expected 0.2%, a deceleration from December.

Economists had forecast a 0.3% monthly increase, which would bring the annual rate to 2.5%, an expectedly cooler reading that benefited from “base effects,” or comparisons to last year when inflation was running higher.

For similar reasons, the core CPI gauge – a closely watched measurement of underlying inflation that excludes volatile food and energy prices – also saw its annual rate of inflation ease. Core CPI slowed to 2.5%, which marks its lowest rate since March 2021, right before the pandemic-era inflationary spike.