Month: August 2020

On film studio set close up shot of empty director’s chair. gorodenkoff | iStock | Getty Images Solstice Studios was supposed to begin filming its newest feature starring Ben Affleck in Los Angeles back in April. While the film’s production was halted by the coronavirus, it’s the lack of widely available testing that will keep it
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getty On January 1, 2021, the 401(k) world as you know it will be reborn. It may start out slowly at first, but ultimately the popular retirement savings vehicle will change. And you should be happy. It’s very possible, if not likely, the new and improved “401(k) 2.0” will allow you to benefit from broader
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A firefighter rubs his head while watching the LNU Lightning Complex fires spread through the Berryessa Estates neighborhood of unincorporated Napa County, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Noah Berger | AP Photo Some of California’s largest wildfires in state history are growing larger and more destructive, with no end in sight as emergency response
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Savvy crypto users are always looking for ways to minimize taxes on cryptocurrency transactions. Since cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are treated as property per IRS Notice 2014-21, every time you sell, trade or exchange tokens into USD or other cryptocurrencies there is a taxable event where you have to pay taxes on, if there is a
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CasarsaGuru | E+ | Getty Images This fall’s back-to-school shopping list certainly isn’t looking like those of years past. With many schools across the country going virtual, or offering part-time distant learning, parents are rethinking what their kids will need as the school year gets underway. “We’re being forced to really look at how we
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By Juana Poareo, Next Avenue Contributor getty Kaci Smith, 36, recalls the gradual emergence of her PTSD symptoms about three years ago when she’d been caring for her mother at home following her mom’s 2012 stroke. “It would be things like almost feeling like a panic attack,” says Smith, a Rochester, N.Y. teacher. “If she
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A Brightline train at the company’s MiamiCentral terminal. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Brightline, the sole private passenger rail service in the U.S., has a green light from transit agencies to begin planning two extensions for its $5 billion high-speed train to Las Vegas that would tie it into existing Los Angeles-area commuter rail lines and, someday,
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Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2020. Erin Scott | Pool | Reuters The U.S. could get the coronavirus pandemic under control if most Americans wear masks, embrace social distancing and practice good
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