Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the Order of Freedom to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday for giving Ukraine access to his company’s Starlink satellite internet service during the embattled country’s ongoing war with Russia. The Order of Freedom, considered one of Ukraine’s highest state and civilian honors, was issued in a presidential decree published […]
A federal judge in Texas has struck down a 2023 state law restricting public drag performances, ruling that the measure violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutionally vague. U.S. District Judge David Hittner, a nominee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Senate Bill 12, which sought to prohibit “sexually oriented performances,” is an unconstitutional restriction […]
Three Secret Service officials were placed on leave in a misconduct investigation, the details of which aren’t public. The suspension included Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi. The trio, all of whom are in the Secret Service’s communications office, have lost their security clearances and access to their work devices, as is protocol in misconduct […]
The September 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in six 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’s endorsement power earned two more victories on Tuesday night, as Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) and Oklahoma Republican Mike Mazzei each won their competitive and much-anticipated primary races. The 2026 Republican primary season has been laced with tests of Trump’s endorsement power as the president has chosen to weigh in on GOP […]
Alaskan voters will again be faced in November with two Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan after both men advanced from the state’s all-party primary Tuesday to the general election. Results on Wednesday showed Dan J. Sullivan Jr., a retired schoolteacher, was projected to finish among the top four vote-getters who advance from the 16-candidate field. […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fire triggered by an exploding air conditioner killed 14 newborns in a hospital nursery in Pakistan’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. One baby of the 15 who were in the nursery at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was rescued, the hospital said. Television footage showed rescue workers using ladders to reach the […]
Cancer has emerged as an unavoidable issue on the campaign trail in Iowa, where candidates vying for two of the state’s most powerful offices are offering competing prescriptions for confronting the disease sweeping the state. Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses in the country and is one of just three states seeing […]
A judge who presided over the Feeding Our Future case out of Minnesota found that the child nutrition program’s relaxed enrollment provisions, originally introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and touted to her Somali constituents, made its reimbursement system “vulnerable to fraud.” Aimee Bock, the convicted Feeding Our Future ringleader, filed an addendum on Friday […]
The third round of August Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued Wednesday. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this on Aug. 26. The first round went out on Aug. 12 to those born on or before the 10th of […]
