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October Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in 19 days

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 […]

Why 9/11 conspiracy theories survived 25 years

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 the US cuts funding to Israel, could Jordan and Egypt be next?

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 […]

Have the Left and Right switched places on globalization and consumerism?

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 […]

PBS’s ‘Marble Hall Murders’ features lovely locales, artful acting, and transfixing twists

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 […]

Newsom concedes California’s housing crisis is fair criticism

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 […]

Second round of September Social Security payments goes out in four days 

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 […]

Latino Republicans warn economic frustrations are eroding GOP’s 2024 gains

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 […]

House to take up bill shielding consumers from energy costs tied to data centers

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 […]

Trump demands Smithsonian honor George Washington with new statue and exhibition

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 […]
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