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MINNEAPOLIS – A former medical doctor has been sentenced to four months in federal prison, a six-month term of home confinement, two years supervised release, and a requirement to pay full restitution following an extensive tax-evasion scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to the plea agreement and other court documents, from at least 2000 until 2018, Joseph David Meyer,

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp once again extended the suspension of the state's gas tax due to the "disastrous effects of Bidenomics." Kemp issued the executive order and will keep it in effect through the Thanksgiving holiday. Kemp signed the state of emergency for inflation in September and renewed it last month. He also enacted the suspension over a 10-month period from March 2022 to

The US government is borrowing a lot of money at high interest rates. In the 2023 fiscal year, the deficit rose to $1.7 trillion—a number the US only exceeded during the burst of pandemic spending.

But the reason for so much borrowing isn’t spending—federal outlays were actually down 2% in 2023. The bulk of the difference came from falling revenue compared to 2022, when the US taxman

The Republican’s order Wednesday will suspend the gas tax until Nov. 29, when legislators are set to meet for a special session to comply with a court order to redraw the state’s political boundaries and approve the gas tax break. Kemp has suspended the gas tax — currently 31.2 cents a gallon for gas and 35 cents per gallon for diesel fuel — for much of the last two years to lower the price to