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If you expected your check to increase by 2.8% due to the cost-of-living adjustment, you're likely to be disappointed. Medicare premiums are withdrawn from the Social Security checks of most retirees, ...

As of December 2025, there is no approved fourth federal stimulus check. Former President Donald Trump has proposed a new round of payments, but this has not been approved by Congress. Arizona has ...

Michigan native Billy Strings got the Tiny Desk Concert treatment this week on NPR's YouTube channel. Strings, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a west Michigan native. He grew up in Muir, a ...

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President Donald Trump has floated the idea of sending Americans “rebate checks” from the tariffs his administration has collected from US importers. Trump said this week that “a dividend of at least ...

President Donald Trump floated a new idea on Nov. 9 to send a $2,000 “dividend” to most people. Trump said Nov. 17 that his administration is planning on distributing the dividend sometime in the ...

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In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

President Donald Trump recently said he wants to send every American a $2,000 stimulus check, which would be paid from the revenue produced from tariffs he ramped up in 2025. Despite President Trump's ...

Americans shouldn't get their hopes up for a $1,702, $1,000 or even $200 payment this year. No Internal Revenue Service or Congressional officials have confirmed the checks. It seems highly unlikely ...