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A Texas county approved a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement Tuesday with the family of a man who sheriff’s deputies shocked with stun guns after a 2019 chase that was filmed by the real-time police TV series “Live PD.” Commissioners in suburban Williamson County, just north of Austin, authorized …

Hobby Lobby workers will be taking home fatter paychecks in the new year, with the crafts chain upping pay to $18.50 an hour for full-time workers as of January 1.  Hobby Lobby in 2009 set a nationwide minimum hourly wage well above the federal level, and has since hiked wages …

Millions of Americans have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of direct cash payments from the U.S. government, via stimulus checks, extra unemployment benefits and the expanded Child Tax Credit. But that last financial buffer may come to an end on December 15 when the IRS sends out the …