The October 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 19 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, age 65 or older, or have a qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]
The tragic events of 9/11 were caused when 19 Islamic terrorists boarded four commercial aircraft and flew them toward targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. Two planes hit the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, causing the towers and three surrounding buildings to collapse, one plane struck the Pentagon, and the fourth was driven […]
If Congress decides to reduce or completely phase out United States military assistance to Israel, as many on Capitol Hill are demanding, Egypt and Jordan could be next. The vast majority of the $90 billion in U.S. military and economic/development aid that the U.S. has given Egypt since 1946 emerged from the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace […]
In 1997, German electronic music artist Christoph De Babalon released an angry, clanking album dubbed If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It. It sometimes seems as if that moniker is the best, most concise way of describing the current era’s partisan politics. It’s a situation embodied by protectionist President Donald Trump. And Vice President […]
The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon. Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) acknowledges that one of the most persistent criticisms of his state — its housing and homelessness crisis — has merit. Newsom, in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Examiner, called housing California’s “original sin,” arguing that decades of restrictive development policies drove up costs, pushed working families […]
The second round of September Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment Wednesday, Sept. 16. The first round went out on Sept. 9 to those born between the 1st […]
DALLAS — Republicans are facing warning signs that the historic gains they made with Hispanic voters in 2024 could be slipping away, less than two months before the midterm elections. Hispanic voters swung toward President Donald Trump at a historic record for a GOP candidate during the 2024 presidential election. Trump won 43% of Hispanic […]
The House will vote on a bipartisan bill on Tuesday designed to get tech companies to pay for the infrastructure and energy required to construct data centers. The vote comes as data centers have become one of the most heated issues in the 2026 midterm elections. Republicans and Democrats alike have faced anger from voters […]
President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Smithsonian Institution to honor George Washington at its National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Trump asked the history museum to erect a new 30-foot “Washington Colossus” to replace the “Infinity,” which is an abstract rotating stainless steel sculpture that stands at the venue’s main entrance. The […]
