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Tax season was supposed to bring big refunds. So far they're less than expected

Act](https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g-s1-74388/senate-big-beautiful-bill). The White House projected the average refund "to rise by $1,000 or more this year." But that extra refund bump has fallen short of that projection. So far, the average

With food benefit cuts looming in the US, Californians eye billionaire tax

Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), passed in June, cut SNAP benefits by more than $186bn over the next 10 years to make up for extending cuts to income tax. This could lead to more than

Trump’s latest border barrier plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’

Beautiful Bill Act, which included [$46bn](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf) to finish construction all the way from the California Pacific coast to the Texas gulf coast. So far, the 517-mile Big Bend sector – nearly

Chiang Mai’s New Year revelry hit by smog and war-related price spikes

one another from the street and on bikes as part of the celebrations of the Songkran festival in Chiang Mai.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b1137ae79d698674dbcccda566364f53f7f65457/0_0_4922_3281/master/4922.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) People take part in water fight celebrations which are part