The GOP’s tax cuts could save Americans billions of dollars by reducing the number of hours they spend calculating and filing their returns, according to a report released Tuesday.

For some couples, student loan debt is a relationship killer, according to this report.

On Tuesday, Rick Gates testified that Paul Manafort recommended President Trump nominate a banker who allegedly loaned him money under false pretenses as Secretary of the Army. Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, is on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud, and Gates, who pleaded guilty in February to lying to the FBI, is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Gates testified that Manafort suggested Stephen Calk as Army secretary two weeks after Trump was elected, when Gates was working on the transition team. Manafort and Gates were longtime business associates, and prosecutors showed the jury an email Manafort sent Gates on Nov. 24, 2016, which read, "We need to discuss Steve Calk for Sec of Army." Two days before Christmas, Manafort sent Gates another email, which included a list of people he wanted to go to Trump's inauguration, including Calk and his son. Prosecutors say that Calk, a retired Army officer, allegedly had his bank, Federal Savings Bank, extend a mortgage to Manafort in 2016 based on fake financials. Calk was named to Trump's Economic Advisory Council in August 2016, but never received a position in his administration. Catherine Garcia

Documents from the FDA and General Services Administration confirmed that the federal agency signed a contract last month to acquire human tissue from aborted fetuses.

Sen. Dean Heller said Republicans in Congress made a "big mistake" when they tried repealing the 2010 health care law as their first legislative item of the Trump administration.

It’s good to be smart. Nearly everybody craves the company of the brainy and bright. Smart people usually surround themselves with the intelligent gadgetry of modernity — smart phones, smart cars, smart watches, smart TVs, even smart fridges that can recite recipes and stream video on demand. It is true, of course, that gadgets can be become addictive. Then acquiring the latest expensive iFrill is not so smart.

Millie Weaver apparently doesn't know that the First Amendment protects a person from being arrested for free speech, not for being kicked off social media.

A mother turned her daughter over to a sexual predator to sneak them both into the U.S. in exchange for getting the mother a job, Homeland Security officials said Tuesday, detailing one of the horrific abuses migrants are able to make of the immigration system.

Houses of worship and nonprofit groups are crying foul as they realize that a provision in last year’s tax reform law requires them to pay federal taxes on some employee benefits for the first time, a development that could cost them thousands of dollars.

A factor worrying the leaders is the violence that had taken place across the state during last month’s bandh called by the Morcha

As warming temperatures strengthen hurricanes, Caribbean states plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal.

The prospect of runaway climate change is terrifying. But it’s still avoidable.

Lawmakers must understand that if Argentina wants to advance on the world stage, the country needs to guarantee reproductive rights.

While testifying in the federal trial against Paul Manafort on Tuesday, Rick Gates admitted he had an extramarital affair while in London, but said he couldn't remember if he paid for his apartment using money he embezzled from Manafort. Manafort is President Trump's former campaign manager, and Gates is his former associate. Manafort is accused of bank and tax fraud, and while testifying on Monday, Gates revealed the pair had 15 foreign bank accounts that were not reported to the federal government, with Manafort directing they not put the accounts on legal documents. Gates is the prosecution's star witness, and on Tuesday, Manafort's lawyer Kevin Downing brought up "the secret life of Rick Gates," asking him if he had an apartment in London and had an affair while there. "I admitted to a previous relationship," Gates said, and revealed he had the apartment for about two months. The Washington Post reports the affair took place more than 10 years ago. On Monday, Gates testified that he had doctored expense reports in order to embezzle money from Manafort. Downing asked him Tuesday if he had "a scheme" developed to embezzle, and Gates said no, he "just added numbers to the reports." Gates also said he met with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office 20 times to prepare for the trial, and has "a bad memory." Catherine Garcia

Reps from Elon Musk's rocket company, NASA and academia are in Colorado to discuss getting to the Red Planet.

An Atlanta-based medical marijuana company announced Monday William Wrigley Jr. II has joined as the chair of its board.

One of the World Bank's mandates is to prepare for the physical and human capital reconstructions of post-conflict Syria. However, an image reconstruction of Syrians and of Syrian refugees is also needed

Senate Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticizing and demanding answers on affirmative action guidance that was rescinded by Sessions last month.

Chris Hayes speaks with Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the legal history of abortion rights.

Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Satish Mishra and Trinamool’s Derek o Brien proposed her name at the Opposition meeting in Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s chamber in Parliament.

Political scientist Leah Stokes writes that amid extreme weather, wildfires and a rapidly warming planet comes Trump's plan to roll back emissions standards and fuel efficency rules in California: another win for fossil fuel companies.

On Tuesday, more details—including brazen financial scams and Rick Gates’ extramarital affair—emerged in the Manafort hearing. In a CNN panel that afternoon, legal experts tried to suss out what the revelations might mean for President Donald Trump and his associates—and if the fraud and tax evasion on display could tie Trump or members of his campaign to Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Jen Psaki, former White House Communications Director under Obama, pointed out, Manafort’s shady …

'The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer.'

A California judge has sentenced a 27-year-old California man to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State and plotting a terrorist attack at Pier 39 in San Francisco, KPIX-TV reported. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill handed down the sentence to Everitt Aaron Jameson of Modesto on Monday as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors. In June, the former U.S. Marine pleaded guilty to voicing his support for and aiding a terrorist organization last year between September and December. What happened? The FBI began watching Jameson after he "liked" or "loved" Facebook posts about terrorist attacks and the Islamic State, according to court documents, CNN reported. He also expressed support for the New York City terrorist attack on Oct. 31, 2017. Undercover FBI agents, who posed as ISIS supporters, made contact with Jameson and interacted with him. In later communications, Jameson expressed his readiness to …

The unemployment numbers look encouraging, but black women still get the short end of the stick.

Federal prosecutors are investigating Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, over alleged tax fraud, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Even abortion opponents must recognize the folly of criminalizing the procedure.

America's first full casualty of climate change could be Tangier Island, a tiny sliver of land in the Chesapeake Bay.

Praise be and Hallelujah. Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist, is now halfway to understanding climate change. It’s a pity it’s taken him this long, and he is still only halfway, but this is indeed an advance insofar as he’s caught up with what every economist on the planet has been shouting…

Capital city homes and businesses connecting to the National Broadband Network are one step closer to gigabit speeds.