The second round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in six 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 […]
MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania — President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night audience left the Mount Airy Casino Resort in high spirits, but some attendees had lingering doubts about the current and future state of the economy. Republicans have spent weeks pressing Trump and White House officials to do more to sell the president’s economic platform heading into a […]
Venezuela opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado didn’t arrive in Oslo, Norway, in time to receive her award on Wednesday, but she was able to escape Venezuela. Machado, who has been in hiding for over a year and has not made a public appearance in 11 months, reportedly safely arrived in […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will end the year with a small but symbolic victory on blue slips as Democrats sign off on a handful of President Donald Trump’s less controversial nominees for U.S. attorney. Senate Democrats in Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine have returned blue slips for three prosecutor nominees currently making their way through […]
EXCLUSIVE — A collation of pro-Palestinian Philadelphia public school teachers is working closely with Students for Justice in Palestine, an activist group that has publicly praised Hamas and faces multiple congressional investigations over its alleged terrorism ties, private messages obtained by the Washington Examiner show. “We are beginning talks about a collaborative teach-in with several […]
The White House wants to metaphorically put President Donald Trump on the ballot for next year’s midterm elections, but with the president’s approval rating creeping lower, that strategy is not without risks. “Typically, in the midterms, it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House; you localize the election. And you keep the federal officials […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has long been a critic of continued U.S. membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He’s categorized it as an archaic institution that serves no current purpose and a waste of taxpayer money. On Wednesday, Massie introduced a bill to end the country’s membership in NATO. “NATO is a Cold War […]
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) during an interview on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night. Wilson said Mace acted like an “entitled, spoiled brat” during an incident at the Charleston International Airport on Oct. 30, in which she reportedly berated law enforcement officials and Transportation Security […]
Fix the Court, a self-proclaimed nonpartisan court reform advocacy group with left-wing ties, filed a judicial misconduct complaint against U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove for attending President Donald Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. As Trump commenced his affordability-focused tour in Pennsylvania, Bove, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, attended the […]
(The Center Square) — New York’s “scaffold law” is driving up insurance costs and draining billions of dollars from the state’s economy, according to a new trade industry report, which is renewing calls for reform. The analysis released Wednesday by the Building Trades Employers’ Association said the law, which dates back to 1885, continues to impose “absolute […]
