Topic: Tax & Budget — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-24 09:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: City problem? Push for a tax, fee, or levy.
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[2026-04-24 09:15 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-04-24 08:41 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Meta is laying off about 8000 workers, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, the company said as it continues to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert hires.
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[2026-04-24 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: They have budgetary FOMO.
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[2026-04-24 07:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Liz Martin is worried the NDIS cuts will prove too much for smaller regional providers. (ABC South West WA: Madigan Landry)
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[2026-04-24 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-04-24 06:30 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Liberal frontbencher says the country’s ‘sovereign capabilities’ have been eroded. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-04-24 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Billionaire Ken Griffin is fuming after Mayor Zohran Mamdani spotlighted his Manhattan penthouse in a viral video announcing a new pied-à-terre tax – and the hedge fund titan signaled he might even yank a $6 billion development project in the city.
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[2026-04-24 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Claudio Tapia, president of the Argentine Soccer Association (AFA), arrives at court in connection with a complaint filed by Argentina’s tax collection agency on failure to pay social security taxes, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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[2026-04-24 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Long Island mom and retired cop stole more than $50,000 in PTA dough for a three-year spending spree on tickets, hotels and other luxuries, prosecutors said.
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[2026-04-24 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday questioned whether Sri Lanka has technically defaulted on its debt repayments, as the intended creditor has been accused of not receiving multiple payments.
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[2026-04-24 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Senior Information Security Engineer Charuka Damunupola yesterday said that SLCERT will provide technical support to the investigations into the alleged diversion of US$ 2.5 million during a foreign debt repayment at the Treasury.
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[2026-04-24 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka had an extraordinarily good year for public finance management in 2025 under the NPP Government. For the first time since 1957 the budget deficit fell to 2.3% which would mean the Government will have to borrow less to finance the gap between Government revenue and expenditure. While the budget estimated a 6.8% deficit for the year 2025, the marked decrease shows the NPP Government has done a good job in managing finances of the government.
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[2026-04-24 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: DFCC Bank PLC has been recognised at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2026, winning the ‘Innovation – Use of Proceeds (Green Bond)’ category for its DFCC Blue Bond 2025, Sri Lanka’s first listed blue bond.
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[2026-04-24 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is far more ambitious than the ports, railways and highways that it is often reduced to in Western commentary, said Hussein Askary, a prominent Iraqi-Swedish scholar of international relations and geo-economics.
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[2026-04-24 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — Autoridades de varios pueblos indígenas en Guatemala protestaron el jueves para exigir la liberación de dos líderes originarios presos desde hace un año acusados de presunto terrorismo luego de encabezar las protestas del 2023 contra la fiscal general Consuelo Porras y en defensa de la democracia en el país centroamericano.
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[2026-04-24 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Meta will cut thousands of jobs next month as it spends more than ever on artificial intelligence (AI) projects.
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[2026-04-24 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California could be on the verge of punching itself in the … pocketbook.
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[2026-04-24 04:25 UTC+10:00] [Competitiveness] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Members of the European Parliament are pushing for more than €20 billion in health funding in the next EU budget, significantly increasing the existing budget for health care projects.
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[2026-04-24 04:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Volvo Car began production of its new EX60 electric sport utility vehicle on April 22 at its factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. (Photo by Takako Fujiu)
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[2026-04-24 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Renewable Energy
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[2026-04-24 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-04-24 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Microsoft is planning its first voluntary employee buyout in the Windows maker’s 51-year history, CNBC reported Thursday, citing a memo.
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[2026-04-24 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: April 24, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-04-24 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mayor Zohan Mamdani’s plan for a city-owned grocery market in East Harlem’s La Marqueta has a deeper problem than the absurdity of spending $30 million to launch a mere 9,000-square-foot store that won’t open until 2029.
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[2026-04-24 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Spirit Airlines' accessible cash to keep operating won't last long and a government rescue package is on the table, a lawyer for the struggling budget carrier said at a hearing Thursday.
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[2026-04-24 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Alyssa Farah Griffin offered up her thoughts on a recent scandal surrounding the NFL.
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[2026-04-24 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: New York City lost more residents than those who moved in last year, according to a new study from the Citizens’ Budget Commission released Monday.
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[2026-04-24 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-24 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-04-24 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-04-24 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. does not feel alluded to by former Speaker Martin Romualdez's remarks that command responsibility for the 2025 budget mess and the infrastructure corruption scandal lies with the Executive branch, Malacañang said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings come to a close in Washington, one reality stands out: the repercussions of the crisis in the Middle East continue to weaken the most vulnerable economies, particularly in Africa.
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[2026-04-23 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States Senate has taken the first steps towards reopening the Department of Homeland Security, after approving a budget framework that would fund immigration enforcement agencies, despite opposition from the Democrats.
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[2026-04-23 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Private details and financial data of people and businesses has possibly been exposed after a cyber attack on PNG's tax office. (Reuters: Kacper Pempel/Illustration)
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[2026-04-23 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ramzan Kadyrov’s 18-year-old son, Adam, is known for a lot of things: roundhouse-kicking a teenager jailed for burning the Quran, firing dual machine guns made of gold, collecting a seemingly endless stream of state awards and being appointed to oversee security and tax collection in the republic of Chechnya.
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[2026-04-23 20:47 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Republicans deploy measure known as budget reconciliation to push through plan without backing from Democrats during lengthy late-night vote
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[2026-04-23 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Prime Video's high-budget spy thriller Citadel is back. Backed by the Russo brothers, and starring Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Stanley Tucci, the globe-trotting show, which premiered in 2023, has spawned two spin-offs – an Indian version, Citadel: Honey Bunny, and Citadel: Diana in Italian.
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[2026-04-23 20:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Spending the past five days cooped up in a hotel in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not quite what a group of Latin Americans expected when they sought asylum in the United States.
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[2026-04-23 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The logo of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is displayed at its booth during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing in July 2025. © Reuters
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[2026-04-23 18:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House.
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[2026-04-23 18:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mary Haywood enjoys a warm April day with her dog at Henley Beach. (ABC News)
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[2026-04-23 18:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-04-23 16:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-04-23 16:23 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Navy Secretary John Phelan abruptly left his job on Wednesday in part because a hugely expensive new battleship he championed sparked friction with his superiors — including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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[2026-04-23 15:40 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-04-23 15:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Tesla anticipates billions of dollars in additional spending this year to support chief executive Elon Musk’s ambitions to transform the electric vehicle maker into an AI and robotics company.
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[2026-04-23 15:05 UTC+10:00] [National disability insurance scheme] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), the Albanese government announced the most significant reforms to the scheme on Wednesday. It’s expected the billions of budget savings will mean at least 160,000 participants will no longer be able to access the scheme within the next four years.
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[2026-04-23 13:07 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Tesla anticipates billions of dollars in additional spending this year to support Elon Musk’s ambitions to transform the electric-vehicle pioneer into an AI and robotics company.
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[2026-04-23 12:52 UTC+10:00] [National disability insurance scheme] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Minister tells Guardian Australia despite substantial changes to disability scheme, it will remain one of best support services ‘anywhere in the world’
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