The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing.

Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets for poor people have started at more than 1,600 locations around the country.

Plans by the IRS to test a new electronic free-file tax return system next year have got supporters and critics of the idea mobilizing over whether the government should set up a permanent program to help people file their taxes without needing to pay somebody else to figure out what they owe.

Officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the energy grid operator for most of the state, said that the state’s power system was simply no match for the deep freeze. It is possible to “winterize” natural gas power plants, natural gas production, wind turbines, and other energy infrastructure, experts said, through practices like insulating pipelines. These upgrades help prevent major interruptions in other states with regularly cold weather. A decade later, Texas power generators have still not made all the investments necessary to prevent plants from tripping offline during extreme cold, experts said. More thorough preparation for cold weather could have prevented the outages, the report said.

Giving by such trade groups and corporate PACs has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the deadly insurrection by Trump supporters, who stormed the Capitol to stop the vote. Giving by corporate PACs and trade groups to individual candidates is limited to $5,000 per candidate each year, thus making up a small portion of each person's overall cash haul. Boeing said Wednesday that it is “not making political contributions at this time” and will “carefully evaluate” who receives future donations. Meanwhile, 46 of the PACs gave to at least half of the Republican objectors, the report found. Tanglis and other campaign finance experts say the big question about donations is whether companies and trade groups will stick by their pledges.

SAN ANTONIO – Ahead of what’s expected to be a wave of legal challenges, Public Citizen, a national consumer advocacy group, was the first to file a lawsuit to invalidate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. By trying to overturn the national emergency declaration, Weissman said, the lawsuit differs from other legal action in the past over eminent domain. He said land could be condemned and seized under a national emergency, which is why three landowners in the Rio Grande Valley are among the plaintiffs. “It’s a double whammy.”He said when the Rio Grande floods, creatures are swept away or drown. In addition to the impact on wildlife, Chapman said he estimates the Rio Grande Valley could lose a half-billion dollars yearly in nature tourism.

Organizers of the "Protect Texas from Radioactive Waste Tour" plan to travel to five Texas cities over the next week in protest of a proposed plan to store used nuclear materials in West Texas.