The Best Kids Gifts of 2026, According to 119 Kids

What do your kids want for the holidays? To find out, we asked 119 children to vote on 150 popular toys and gifts.

As homeownership gets harder, more buyers are getting down payment help. What parents should know

As home prices rise, parents want to give money to their kids. Here's how to save on taxes when doing it, financial experts ...
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A half-ton pickup advertises 13,200 pounds of towing on the showroom sticker, but its real payload often leaves barely 1,500 pounds before the hitch even loads up

Pickup trucks advertise huge towing numbers, but payload limits and tongue weight often cap real capacity far below the ...
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She sold the house and gave each of her three kids $100,000. The IRS didn’t tax the gifts. Medicare taxed the sale.

Quick ReadGifting home-sale proceeds to children does not reduce MAGI. A $300,000 taxable gain stays on the return regardless of where the money goes.Widows face an IRMAA trap because single filers ...

Charleston-area nonprofits help vulnerable students beyond the classroom. Here's how.

When Dyrell Clark began tutoring a third-grader struggling with reading, he realized the boy lacked a mentor willing to show ...
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How the $3,400 Education Freedom Tax Credit works: A plain-English explainer for donors

Key Points ・Starting January 1, 2027, a cash gift to an approved scholarship granting organization earns a dollar-for-dollar ...

55 Times People Got Revenge In The Most Petty Ways Imaginable

For a while now, we've been writing posts where people online and in the BuzzFeed Community shared their pettiest and wildest ...
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UVA grads document the experience of birth mothers

Every year, about a hundred thousand children are adopted in this country, and the new parents are often celebrated for their ...

I Was an Honors Student Who Couldn’t Do Basic Math. Decades Later, I Found Out Why

Dyscalculia affects up to 6.5% of the population — almost as many as dyslexia — yet most have never heard of it. Here’s what ...
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Medical equipment donated to save more kids with heart disease

German professor Erich Johann Lejeune, Founder of Heart for Heart Foundation for Life, presented a Digital Subtraction ...
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NFL Player Turned Mathematician Solves Problem that Eluded Scholars for Years

OpenAI says its AI has solved a math problem that stumped humans for decades. But mathematician John Urschel argues the real ...
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A $1 Million Inheritance, Settlement, or Business Sale That Lands in a Single Tax Year Can Put a $100,000 Earner in the 37% Bracket. Here’s How Advisors Spread It Acros…

A seven-figure windfall hitting one tax return can hand the IRS a third of the check, but advisors have a fully legal move ...