The second round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on Dec. 17. The first round of payments went out on Dec. 10 to recipients born on […]
House Democrats are eyeing a bipartisan discharge petition led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) over a similar proposal from Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits, though leadership has yet to throw its support behind either measure. There are two discharge petitions that look to extend the ACA subsidies, which expire at the end of the […]
January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 19 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, though January’s payment will go out on Dec. 31. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, the latter being the […]
The national average price for a gallon of gas dropped again on Friday to $2.932 per gallon. It marks the latest decrease in the national average for gas prices, which has been dropping as quickly as winter temperatures in the northeastern United States recently. Yesterday, the average price for regular gas was $2.94 per gallon, […]
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s administration is working overtime to prevent a full-blown military escalation between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, and to cool rising tensions between the Jewish state and Syria. Bringing regional peace and new economic opportunities to the volatile region is one of the president’s very top priorities. Washington’s […]
The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 bills in one recent day and held 13 committee meetings and hearings the day after. All told, the House has passed 41 bills since the end of the government shutdown on Nov. […]
President Donald Trump‘s administration has been marked by a renewed relationship with key Silicon Valley players this time around. Elon Musk was a skeptic of Trump during his first White House term. But in 2024, with Trump seeking a comeback after losing in 2020, Musk spent considerable time, effort, and money campaigning for the former […]
Many have left behind the obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion that infected entertainment (and society) back in 2020. But CBS‘s Survivor has not, and its DEI casting is killing what used to be one of the best shows on TV. In 2020, CBS imposed racial quotas on the casting process for its reality shows, […]
President Donald Trump‘s administration is asking Americans and international allies of the United States to make sacrifices. Trump, trying to fulfill his longtime promise of fighting the Chinese Communist Party‘s existential threat, has imposed the highest tariff rates in a century on U.S. consumers and pressured allies to wrap up wars against Russia and Iranian […]
Despite the prosecution’s eventual loss in its felony sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, there was not an honest broker in America who walked away from Diddy’s acquittal on the more serious charges with the belief that the man was innocent. The world watched the former rap mogul kick, beat, and bruise […]
