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IRS Data Show Average Tax Refund Up Over 10% This Year Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The average tax refund is 10.8 percent higher this year when compared with the same time period in 2025, according to data released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on March 20. The figures show that as of March 13, the average refund for individual filers for 2026 was $3,623, up from $3,271 from 2025. Around 69.7 million individual tax returns have been received by the IRS so far, the agency said, around 1...

Trump Ready To Continue Operations Until Iranians "Can't Fight Any Longer" Summary: Trump sticking to surrender demand, freshly telling Axios, but tweaking the messaging a bit compared to earlier: "Unconditional surrender could be that [the Iranians] announce it. But it could also be when they can't fight any longer because they don't have anyone or anything to fight with."  Trump's expected timeline on Operation Epic Fury: WH Press Secretary Leavitt: "Four to six weeks." And Leavitt further tweaks Trump's message... ops to continue till "Iran can no longer pose a threat to the U.S....

A week after announcing they were entering the ever-growing regional war on the side of Iran, Yemen’s Houthi movement has launched missiles at southern Israel, saying the operation, the third such flurry of missiles, was done in coordination with Iran and Hezbollah. The Houthis firing missiles at Israel is nothing new, but direct coordination with […]