The third round of February Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on Feb. 25. The first round went out on Feb. 11 to recipients born on or before […]
The March 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in seven days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month, but March’s payment will go out on Feb. 27, since March 1 falls on a Sunday this year. When the first of a month […]
The estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein agreed to a $35 million class action lawsuit settlement against two of his previous advisers, according to a court filing on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In the court brief, Epstein’s advisers Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn were accused of […]
California Democrats will head to their state convention on Friday facing a defining question: Can the party unite in a post-Gov. Gavin Newsom world, or are they barreling toward an ugly, splintered primary that could jeopardize their grip on the governor’s race? Thousands of California Democrats are expected to attend the multiday event in San […]
A proposal pitched as a way to help consumers struggling with interest rates is unsettling the financial sector. As President Donald Trump and other populist lawmakers push for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates, banks argue that such a cap could limit access to credit. Trump initially proposed during his 2024 presidential campaign […]
An open-seat Ohio congressional race is an early electoral gauge of the voting public’s views on the Trump administration‘s deportation tactics. Madison Sheahan announced Jan. 15 that she was stepping down as deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and seeking the Republican nomination to take on longtime Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH). Sheahan, 28, faces […]
Red and blue states are fighting over redistricting, with an eye on this year’s midterm elections. The majority party’s strategy in each state is to maximize its advantage by changing the boundaries of the other party’s congressional districts. The redrawn districts dilute historic voters of the opposition party so much that they almost needn’t bother […]
If you want to be a pessimist, the worst economic news for President Donald Trump during his first full year back in the Oval Office is that the Federal Reserve cannot possibly justify slashing the interest rate charged by banks to borrow from each other overnight. If you want to be an optimist, you just […]
When it comes to “nationalizing” elections, both parties are constitutional purists until they are not. Federalism is treated as sacred, right up until it becomes an obstacle to winning elections. Then the Constitution’s Elections Clause is rediscovered, Congress suddenly has sweeping authority, and Washington, D.C., must step in to save democracy from the states. The […]
I may be one of the few people remaining on the planet to both maintain a landline telephone and to decline to avail myself of the alleged benefits of a smartphone. And there is nothing in the new invigorating, imaginative science-fiction comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die that leads me to reconsider my choices. […]
