Earlier this year, as members of the United Nations Security Council gathered for one of their regular briefings on Haiti, the discussion followed a familiar pattern: the rapid expansion of ...

Kevin Durant had 28 points to become the eighth player in NBA history to score 31,000 career points as the Houston Rockets ...

When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper checks as well. The government ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

The Trump administration's executive order to phase out paper checks may harm certain taxpayers, warns Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins. Executive Order 14247 directs the Treasury Department, including ...

What do increased fraud, significant costs and operational inefficiencies all have in common? Paper checks, or, at least, those were the reasons cited when President Donald Trump issued an executive ...

The time it takes to receive a federal income tax refund could drag out six weeks and more next year for many people who are bound and determined to receive a paper check in the mail. Beginning next ...

Social Security is among the federal government payments that are swapping out paper checks for electronic payments this week to push “operational efficiency.” President Donald Trump signed an ...

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service, working with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning on Sept. 30, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government started phasing out paper checks for most programs on Tuesday. The change, which was initiated through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government started Tuesday to phase out paper checks for most programs. The change, which was initiated through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March, ...