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  April 15th is officially Tax Day. But someone making $1 million a year isn’t paying into Social Security today — they stopped in early March. Billionaires, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, stopped paying in on January 1st. That’s just one of the many tax loopholes that millionaires and billionaires enjoy. They’ve spent decades lobbying Congress for special tax handouts that allow them to avoid paying their fair share.  Meanwhile, working and middle class Americans are paying taxes with every paycheck we receive while seeing the cost of living skyrocket on everything from gas to healthcare to food. This Tax Day, join us in demanding that Congress tax the wealthy, and make life more affordable for the rest of us! Every year on Tax Day, millions of Americans pay what they owe to support the country we all depend on. And all year long, working Americans pay into Social Security and Medicare with every paycheck — but the wealthy don’t. We’re sending hundreds of thousands of messa...

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 ■ Today's Top News  All Nations, World Bodies 'Must Urgently Intervene' to Stop Trump From Wiping Out Iran: Amnesty The group's leader urged action to stop "attacks that would plunge an entire country into darkness and deprive millions of their fundamental human rights to life, water, food, healthcare, and an adequate standard of living." By Jessica Corbett Amnesty International  on Tuesday joined advocacy groups and political leaders around the world in calling for swift action to stop President  Donald Trump  from carrying out his genocidal threats against Iran, with the  human rights  group specifically putting pressure on all governments and the  United Nations . Trump gave Iran until 8:00 pm Eastern to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which the country closed to most ship traffic after the  United States  and Israel abandoned diplomatic talks for war in February. The US president  said  on his Truth Social pl...