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• TaxWatch: 3 ways Olympic athletes’ taxes are different than yours
  There are rules about when the IRS can and can't go for the gold.
• : Lawsuit accuses Activision of ‘frat boy’ workplace rampant with sexual bias
  Videogame giant is accused of paying and promoting female employees less than their male peers, with female employees subject to "constant sexual harassment," including unwanted sexual comments, advances and groping.
• : Uber and Lyft drivers strike for a day, say earnings are declining despite driver shortage
  Ride-hailing drivers across the country executed a strike Wednesday, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass the PRO Act, a bill that would allow them to organize.
• : Feds seize sites posing as Walmart web pages to sell phony COVID-19 cures
  Prosecutors believe the sites were really being used to steal people’s personal information
• : Man arrested in Spain for Twitter hack that targeted Musk, Kardashian, Obama and others
  Prosecutors say Joseph O'Connor was part of a group of hackers that took over more than 130 high-profile Twitter accounts last year
• : The ‘hidden pandemic of orphanhood’: An estimated 1.5 million children have lost a caregiver to COVID-19
  'Overall, there were up to five times more children who lost a father than who lost a mother.'
• : The pandemic-induced recession ended more than a year ago — but the U.S. economy isn’t out of the woods yet
  The recession caused by the pandemic was the shortest in U.S. history.
• : Only one U.S. airline ranked among the 10 best in the world — here’s who came out on top
  Airlines’ track records amid the COVID-19 pandemic factored in the new ranking.
• The Moneyist: I successfully renovated a condo building. My new husband offered to manage my next project — and it all went horribly wrong
  ‘He now wants the $40,000 he invested in my building that he tore apart and left destroyed.’
• Personal Finance Daily: An estimated 1.5 million children have lost a caregiver to COVID, and man arrested in Spain for Twitter hack that targeted Musk, Kardashian, Obama and others
  Wednesday's top personal finance stories