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Taxpayers, prepare to be frustrated. irs is entering tax season with significant backlog because of the pandemic and facing staffing shortages. fewer than 15,000 workers had to handle the calls. work force the same size as it was in 1970, with budget nearly 20% less than ten years ago and covid has increased the challenges, especially for paper returns. >> irs employees have to be in the building to process the paper returns. covid with social distancing and restricting numbers, limits how many can work. >> reporter: experts advise filing online, triple check for errors and choose direct depos...

ADDED PROTECTION. An airport worker disinfects the cargo of 539,430 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City on Tuesday (Nov. 30, 2021). The jabs were donated by South Korea through the COVAX Facility. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - To prevent wastage, the government is taking steps to accept only Covid-19 vaccine donations that are far from expiring. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, acting Presidential spokesperson, said the government has already set parameters and guidelines when it comes to accepting don...

Mate, there is a belief he may have tried to commit suicide and they transferred the cell mate, which is against policy. we'll come back to all this is what everyone is talking about. but also the race for the presidency, the 2020 democrats have been storming iowa, whose first-in-the-nation caucus is coming up. joe biden is holding his lead with senator elizabeth warren and kamala harris in second and third place. you see how much elizabeth warren has gained on bide wrenn. i saw you on the bus with senator kamala harris and you asked her about her iowa strategy. what did she say to you? >> rep...

Alone among our p.o.w.s, he could have left at any time he wanted, because the code of honor of p.o.w.ed is first in, first out. he was tortured for resisting. more than most. so, what he endured for our country, he endured unspeakable torture and is he an american hero. i don't agree with his politics, but that's not the point. to say something like that about a man who has given this much for his country is just beneath contempt. >> should not have been saying this, correct? >> absolutely not. john mccain is a war hero. he's a hero -- the sacrifice that he made, and those like him, have made...

Aftermath. we'll take it around the table with a final thoughts i'll begin first.in if trump had to do it again, he would name names. what is happening now is completely out of control. the smear merchants are also out of control. he is being unfairly maligned, but he would have to expect that and i understand that. third, i think the police and the mayor of charlottesville do have blood on their hands. there is dereliction of duty with what happened. there should have been a massive amount of law enforcement there, on the scene, and the minuteha blows were exchanged, they should have separate...