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The IRS has taken steps to deal with the backlog and prepare for the current tax filing season, which began late last month. The last day to file is April 18.

The IRS is assigning more workers to deal with a huge backlog of tax returns

Smaller budgets, fewer employees and increased duties have added up to taxpayer frustration this filing season. The IRS is establishing a "surge team" to put resources on the processing challenges.

Protesters hand out flyers pushing for benefits for hair and makeup workers at The Atlanta Opera.

These hair and makeup workers want to unionize. Their case could have a big impact

Hair and makeup workers at the Atlanta Opera want to collectively bargain. But the opera is arguing that the workers are independent contractors, and not employees.

Conservative Valerie Pecresse is struggling in her bid to unseat Macron

Valerie Pecresse, the conservative nominee for president of France, is struggling in her bid to unseat President Emmanuel Macron.

Russia has been showing diplomatic interest in Latin American countries

Don Gonyea speaks with Vladimir Rouvinski of Universidad Icesi in Colombia about Russia's outreach to Latin American countries during the Ukraine crisis.

A <em>Guiera senegalensis</em> shrub grows in an agricultural test plot outside Thiès, Senegal. The shrubs used to be considered a threat to other crops. Now American and Senegalese researchers are conducting studies to see if the shrubs in fact are beneficial.

Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect

For decades, they've been told to rip out the Guiera senegalensis shrub. But now there's a new philosophy: The scrappy green plant could be the key to a better harvest.

Buckingham Palace said Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 that Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms and will continue with duties.

Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19

Buckingham Palace said the 95-year-old monarch is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms and will continue with light duties over the next week. She has received three jabs of coronavirus vaccine.

Kevin Tranbarger poses with his two children outside the Hong Kong International Airport in July, before they left for the United States. A few weeks later, Tranbarger decided to permanently move away from Hong after living there for nearly three decades.

He loved Hong Kong. Its COVID crackdown made him leave without even saying goodbye

Hong Kong has imposed severe restrictions to fight COVID-19. For many expatriates, this is the last straw after years of seeing its autonomy erode as China tightens its grip on the territory.

People pledge allegiance to America as they receive U.S. citizenship at a naturalization ceremony for immigrants in Los Angeles in 2017.

1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are migrants. Here's what's driving that shift

The breadth of what it means to be a Black American is widening, according to new analysis of the latest migration statistics.

Police push protesters back on Saturday in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. After making more than 100 arrests on Friday, police resumed their work to clear the protesters who oppose many of Canada's COVID-19 restrictions.

Police clear protesters around Canada's Parliament building

Police in Ottawa have made 170 arrests so far as they work to clear the streets in Canada's capital city. Protests against COVID-19 restrictions have spread across Canada in recent weeks.

Opera singers Kelly Griffin and Derrell Acon perform with singers in incarceration in Heartbeat Opera's production of <em>Fidelio</em> at a dress rehearsal at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Prison choirs sing in a reboot of Beethoven's opera about unjust incarceration

A New York City opera company created an updated version of Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. The performance features singers who are incarcerated in real life.

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