MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali pirates have seized an Iranian fishing vessel carrying 23 people, the Maritime Security Center Indian Ocean said, warning that the ship was approaching a commercial shipping lane and could become a floating base for further attacks. The Azini was hijacked Thursday between the coastal towns of Bandar Bayla and Hafun […]
The December 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 30 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. If the first day falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the payment is sent on the last business day of the previous month […]
President Donald Trump pledged at the beginning of September to spend the final month before the midterm elections traveling the country to rescue vulnerable Republican candidates, promising to visit 35 races in roughly 30 days. The president has made good on that promise in part by concentrating his appearances in a handful of states, with […]
The future of Republican policy related to abortion and the Make America Healthy Again agenda in the next Congress largely hinges on whether Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) can manage to win reelection in Kansas. Marshall, who is running for reelection against Democrat megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton, has been a leading voice on healthcare policy as […]
Ohio’s gubernatorial race has descended into an extraordinary exchange of personal attacks, with Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton digging into each other’s pasts in a bitter contest that has left voters without a debate ahead of Election Day. The mudslinging reached a new level in October, when Ramaswamy’s campaign released an advertisement featuring […]
It only weighs about a pound when you first pick it up, and yet Chuck Klosterman’s book Rock* was hard to lift when I went back to it. It grew heavier and heavier. It became a brick, then an anvil. Klosterman is one of my favorite nonfiction writers — our leading Gen X pop-culture critic. […]
Democrats are poised to combat President Donald Trump’s tariffs if they win congressional majorities in the midterm elections. While they are unlikely able to get Trump to sign bills undoing his own agenda, they could force Republicans to take difficult votes on the tariffs, from which they have been shielded thus far by GOP leadership. […]
President Donald Trump said on Saturday night the United States is not “in that much of a hurry” to sign a negotiated deal with Iran as the president weighs launching a fresh wave of strikes against the terrorist-sponsoring nation following the midterm elections. When asked if there’s a “timeframe for the Qatari-mediated negotiations” while fielding […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a teenager who was shot and killed in the Bronx on Thursday. 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, who moved from Ghana to live with his father roughly a year ago, was shot in the abdomen […]
DETROIT — Instead of capitalizing on Republican vulnerabilities to retake the Senate on Tuesday, some of the Democratic Party’s most prominent figures and their allies are consumed by a fight of their own making. In Michigan, where Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed is locked in a closely watched contest against Republican Mike Rogers, a […]
