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Tax Deadline Looms: Advice for Last-Minute Filers

Americans get three extra days this year to file their income tax returns, but if you've put off doing your taxes, it's time to get organized -- and possibly to get help. Because if you owe Uncle Sam, even if you file for an extension, you'd better have his check in the mail by midnight Monday.

Obama's Deficit Commission Is Short on Funding

Sounds like a joke, but, no, it's just politics: President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which is tasked with developing a plan to get the deficit under control, is itself being starved of the funds it would need to operate effectively.