House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., cited a provision of the law known as 26 U.S. Code § 6103 in the letter he sent to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. The law allows the chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to seek returns by sending a written request, and that those returns "shall" be handed over. This legal authority is almost a century old, said University of Virginia law professor George Yin. "Congress decided that tax information should remain confidential except in two situations," Yin has written.
Any given human could function at a high level well into his or her dotage. But these are outliers. The overwhelming majority decline. This happens to different people at different ages, but scientists have established that decline accelerates with advancing age: In a study by the University of Virginia, adults between the ages of 61 and 96 showed a decrease in cognitive speed twice as great as adults under age 60, and a drop-off in memory four times as great.
A federal judge has ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, a UVA student who died shortly after being released from that country.
(Video) The UVA community celebrated nurses of color during a special recognition ceremony.
(Video) People all over Charlottesville can start creating new tools to help make the city smarter.
UVA alumni kicked off Monday's national championship game day by joining UVA President Jim Ryan for an early morning run around Minneapolis.
Monday’s men’s college championship between Virginia and Texas Tech was widely predicted to be a duck: a snoozy, asleep-on-the couch-by-10 p.m. bore, thanks to two torpid, defense-first, low-scoring outfits certain to batter each other into somnolent submission. But the Hoos vs. the Red Raiders would defy its critics and potshots and ramp up into a bona fide gem – one of the better title games in history, really – a wake-the-kids-up overtime thriller that was close until its final moments.
April is even madder than March. A week after winning on one of the most memorable plays in NCAA tournament history, UVA advanced to the national title game — on a sequence that won’t be forgotten in these parts anytime soon. Kyle Guy was fouled with 0.6 seconds remaining, then calmly made all three free throws to deliver the win.
Hundreds of the University of Virginia students stormed The Corner after a nail-biting win against Auburn.
The University of Virginia is advancing to the NCAA championship game for the first time in its history. This is what it was like on campus.
He didn’t know it yet, but in about eight months Coach Tony Bennett would stand in front of his Virginia team before the Elite Eight and call back to this moment, employing it as an example of faith. But now, Bennett, in his floral orange swim trunks and blue helmet, was floating in the New River in West Virginia, surrounded by his players and assistants on a sweltering August day. The team had gone whitewater rafting, but the boats had been playfully tipped over, pouring the men into the murky waters. He took a moment to himself: “Alright, Lord. What’s this year going to bring?”
Kihei Clark might smile when he's with his teammates behind closed doors. He might laugh when he watches a funny video. He might chuckle at one of Tony Bennett's corny jokes, within the confines of the Virginia men's basketball closed practices. But the face he shows the public, and opponents, is all business. Perhaps that's because at 5-foot-9, 155 pounds, the freshman guard is not supposed to be starting for most college basketball teams, let alone one that is in the championship game of the NCAA tournament on Monday night.
If you follow UVA hoops, you understand that the goal is to prevent the opponent from finding and taking an easy shot. It stops the opposing team from scoring in transition and forces them to work harder. On offense, the objective is to find the best shot
Jack Salt has created history, becoming the first Kiwi to reach U.S. college basketball's national championship final. On Sunday (NZ time), Salt's Cavaliers beat Auburn 63-62 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis to reach the national championship game.
Virginia Cavalier fans on Sunday prepared for Monday’s men’s basketball national championship game by stocking up on team gear, studying early for biology class and picking up trash and lost belongings from the night before.
George K. Yin, a tax law professor at the University of Virginia, disagreed. He said Mr. Neal’s argument was cleverly framed, particularly in light of a relevant past use of Section 6103 by Congress in examining whether President Richard M. Nixon had properly paid his taxes. “There is an inherent conflict of interest when the agency is responsible for auditing its boss,” he said.
“The IRS has to audit the president, and that puts them in an almost automatic conflict of interest when you have to audit your boss,” said George Yin, a UVA law professor and former staffer on the Joint Committee on Taxation who wrote a widely circulated paper on the statute that empowers Neal to issue the request. “But I think that from the standpoint of the committee, that seems like a very clear and legitimate reason to make this type of request.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he believes the conservative network is largely a propaganda arm of President Donald Trump’s administration. “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV,” Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who has studied conservative media, told Mayer.
Swirls of aqua and peach command a starry night sky in the Xigazê region of Tibet in April 2014. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of China in Beijing and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville are observing colorful ripples of airglow. To get the photo, Jeff Dai — then an engineer on a photography holiday and now a full-time photographer — ran a long exposure of 47 seconds.