Tristan Smith

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Trump rolls back environmental regulation to ‘take care of my beautiful hair’ - masslive.com

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

President Donald Trump said he aims to "make America's showers great again."
Here’s when the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts 2025’s final frosts will hit Mass.

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

Spring has arrived, yet frost and occasional snow showers are disrupting or postponing many people’s plans for seasonal gardening. “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” published a frost map to show when frost is expected to stop nationwide. People can enter their zip code into the Almanac’s Frost Date Calculator to see when the frost is expected to end this spring and start up again in the fall. In the Connecticut River Valley, frost is expected to leave around May 3.
Millions of Social Security recipients get ‘not receiving payments’ message

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

An internal memo sent to the Social Security Administration told staffers that millions of beneficiaries are receiving error messages claiming they’re “not receiving payments.”According to the SSA staff email, obtained by The Washington Post, the error message was sent to a large part of the 7.4 million people enrolled in the Supplemental Security Income — a monthly benefit that benefits adults and children in poverty.
Luxury fashion giant agrees to buy rival brand for over $1B

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

A global luxury fashion giant agreed to strut and purchase its rival for over $1 billion. Prada has agreed to purchase rival luxury brand Versace from Capri Holdings for $1.38 billion Thursday morning, according to a company press release. The deal was reportedly stuck in limbo and on the verge of collapse due to the market spontaneity caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Versace has operated at a loss with the recent decline in demand for luxury fashion.
Tariffs are delayed. Here’s what Apple is doing to avoid them when they return

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

In an effort to escape the financial burdens of President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, one of the world’s largest tech companies chartered millions of its phones out of India. According to a Reuters report, Apple flew 1.5 million iPhones — about 600 tons worth — out of India.
Ice cream industry facing meltdown amid bankruptcies, sell offs

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

It seems less and less people want to scream for ice cream these days. There’s been a spate of bankruptcies in the ice cream industry in recent years. Most recent in the turmoil, the U.S. Department of Justice has shut down one of the country’s largest ice cream manufacturers. The DOJ permanently prohibited Maryland-based ice cream manufacturer, Totally Cool Inc., from making or distributing any adulterated food products, as reported by CBS News.
‘Moron’: Musk blasts Trump’s tariff czar

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

Elon Musk, usually a steadfast supporter of President Donald Trump’s administration, distanced himself from the president’s unpopular tariff agenda and berated its overseer. Musk took to the social media platform X, which he owns, to slam comments made by Trump’s top trade advisor Peter Navarro. Navarro spoke about the administration’s recent tariffs on CNBC Monday.
Stimulus deadline: People have till next week to claim up to $1400

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

Eligible taxpayers have less than a week to submit their claim for a 2021 tax credit that can pay up to $1400. The Recovery Rebate Credit is a stimulus tax credit for some individuals who didn’t receive the full amount of one or more of the three COVID pandemic-related Economic Impact Payments and didn’t claim the stimulus payment on their 2021 or 2020 tax return.
Social Security to start fraud checks on all phone claims next week

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is revamping its fraud detection system for over-the-phone claims. In a post on the federal administration’s official X account Tuesday evening, the administration announced that all social security claims filed over the phone will undergo an anti-fraud check. The announcement added that claims that have “fraud risk” indicators will also be flagged.
‘Alarming’ Social Security errors leave beneficiaries without payments

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Tristan Smith

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Kelly in penning a letter to Acting Social Security Administration Commissioner Leland Dudek Tuesday, asking why Americans are receiving disruptions to their Social Security benefits. “These beneficiaries are some of the most vulnerable in the nation — low-income seniors and children and adults with disabilities — and face extraordinary hardship if their benefits are delayed or disrupted,” the senators wrote in the letter.