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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

By Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Last fall, Intuit’s longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked on a farewell tour of the company’s offices around the world. Smith […]

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Why a brainless yellow ‘blob’ that can learn is mystifying scientists

World / En Sound Media

A yellow organism which looks like fungus but acts like an animal has gone on display at the Paris Zoological Park. The slim mould – Physarum polycephalum – has almost 720 sexes and has been described as one of “nature’s mysteries” by scientists. It can heal itself in two minutes if cut in half, and

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36 Hours in Yokohama – The New York Times

Travel / En Sound Media

Yokohama resides in the perpetual shadow of its more prominent neighbor. Less than half an hour by train from Tokyo, the sprawling port city is the second-largest in Japan, yet registers as barely a blip among most tourists to the region. But that may soon change, at least among sports fans. This fall, Yokohama is

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Queuing for eternity: Fossils show lining up is primal urge

Technology / En Sound Media

Ever felt like you’ve been queuing forever? Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million years and could have had evolutionary advantages. Their study, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, describes groups of blind trilobites — known as Ampyx — all facing in the

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Barcelona coach wants Real Madrid to play in Catalan capital

Sports / En Sound Media

Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde says his team wants to play its Spanish league “clásico” match against Real Madrid at home despite a planned separatist rally in the Catalan capital on the same day. The Spanish soccer league wants the Oct. 26 game to be moved from Barcelona to Madrid because of security concerns, with the

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The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest News

Politics / En Sound Media

The death of an impeachment leader raises questions going forward. The passing of Representative Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, cast a pall over the impeachment inquiry. Mr. Cummings’ signature was one of three on the letters seeking witnesses and information, along with the names of Adam B. Schiff, the

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Europe’s specialty food makers brace for US tariffs

Finance / En Sound Media

European producers of specialty agricultural products like French wine, Italian Parmesan and Spanish olives are facing a U.S. tariff hike due Friday with a mix of trepidation and indignation at being dragged into a trade war they feel they have little to do with. The tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European goods were approved

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The Latest: Jury selection resumes for opioid trial

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

The Latest on a federal trial over the toll of opioids (all times local): 10:40 a.m. Jury selection for a federal trial on the toll of opioids has resumed even as major drug distributors and manufacturers press for a settlement of the lawsuit and more than 2,000 others. For the second day in a row

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Scott Mills to host 5 Live Saturday morning show

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption (L-R) Chris Stark and Scott Mills Scott Mills and his radio sidekick Chris Stark are to host a new show on BBC Radio 5 Live, as part of a shake-up to the station’s weekend line-up. The long-serving Radio 1 presenter will take over the 09:00-11:00 BST slot vacated by

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Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working?

Technology / En Sound Media

“Billionaires should not exist,” Senator Bernie Sanders said last month. And, at the Democratic presidential debate this week, he said that the wealth disparity in America is “a moral and economic outrage.” “Senator Sanders is right,” said Tom Steyer, a businessman from California who happened to be the only billionaire onstage that night (as far

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