August Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will go out to recipients in under two weeks. SSI payments are typically distributed at the start of every month to beneficiaries with limited income who are either blind, 65 and older, or have a qualifying disability. The amount recipients receive varies based on several factors, […]
Democrats will be put to the test next week when Senate Republicans bring to a vote the first of several bipartisan government funding bills for next fiscal year. But fresh off a Republican-controlled Congress clawing back $9 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts from money that both parties previously approved, Democrats are at a crossroads regarding whether […]
With a late-night vote in Congress to cut PBS and NPR funding, Mitt Romney‘s vision has come to pass. During a 2012 presidential debate, the GOP nominee famously pledged to “stop the subsidy to PBS” even though he liked Sesame Street character Big Bird. Romney also apologized to the moderator, Jim Lehrer, who was a […]
In the days since President Donald Trump issued a 50-day ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, Kremlin officials have shown little interest in coming to the negotiating table. The president’s deal, as clarified by a White House official after his public announcement, gives Russia 50 days, roughly seven weeks, […]
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Friday accused the Justice Department of ordering the FBI to “flag” files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case that mentioned President Donald Trump. In multiple letters to top DOJ and FBI officials, Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, referenced Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s move to review the Epstein files in […]
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday suggested that Democrats attacking President Donald Trump over his handling of investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are hypocrites. Democrats have ramped up pressure against Trump for not releasing Epstein’s “client list” and other information, even as the Department of Justice says no such list exists and […]
The National Institutes of Health is still blaming processing delays for public records requests on the COVID-19 shutdown from five years ago, with response times to simple inquiries reportedly averaging months. To this day, NIH’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) portal says hospitals, research institutions, healthcare companies, and medical professionals whose records are subject to information […]
New York on Friday agreed to pay nearly $500,000 to settle a case in which a woman accused Andrew Cuomo of sexually harassing her during his time as the State’s governor. Brittany Commisso filed a criminal complaint against Cuomo in 2021, accusing him of reaching under her blouse and groping her breast when she was […]
President Donald Trump on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and related parties for publishing a story regarding his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president’s lawsuit targeted Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and the two reporters who wrote the story, Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, along with the […]
The Trump administration asked federal judges on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing public demand for transparency and renewed scrutiny of how the Justice Department handled the high-profile sex-trafficking cases. The requests, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follow […]
