President Donald Trump announced Saturday on Truth Social that he endorsed Leigh Wamsganss, COO of Patriot Mobile, for a hotly contested Texas state senate seat. The state is holding special elections for the seat that Wamsganss is running for and Texas’s 18th Congressional district, where two Democrats are competing to succeed late Rep. Sylvester Turner […]
Houston voters participate in a runoff election Saturday to determine who will succeed the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, after nearly a year of a vacant seat, only to turn around and have a primary election just weeks later. Texans will vote in a runoff election between Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards to determine who […]
March 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 27 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, but March’s payment will go out on Feb. 27. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, SSI payments are issued […]
The first round of February Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in 11 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Feb. 11. The second round will go out on Feb. 18 to those born between the […]
The House is up to bat after the Senate passed a funding deal that sharply split Democrats and has immigration hawks threatening to vote “no,” a headache for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that could prolong a government shutdown that began at midnight on Saturday. The upper chamber passed a sweeping spending bill on Friday night […]
Somebody call for a plumber, the White House is springing leaks. The second Trump administration has been buttoned up when compared to its chaotic 2016 vintage. During President Donald Trump‘s first administration, power plays between White House aides routinely spilled out into the press, with reporters sometimes being used to advance personal, political, and policy […]
Democrats’ brief victory on government funding could be short-lived as Republicans bring their own demands, including a crackdown on “sanctuary” cities and states, to a fight over Immigration and Customs Enforcement conduct. A White House-brokered deal to reopen the government, poised to clear Congress early next week, gave Democrats what they wanted to negotiate over […]
The latest trove of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice on Friday shed new light on his vast social network, with several high-profile figures mentioned in repeated correspondence with the convicted sex offender. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch were […]
President Donald Trump has nominated senior economist Brett Matsumoto from the White House Council of Economic Advisers to head the beleaguered Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired the agency’s previous commissioner last year. “For many years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under WEAK and STUPID people, has been FAILING American Businesses, Policymakers, and Families […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James fired a consumer fraud lawyer last week after she sounded the alarm both publicly and within the state prosecutor’s office about pediatric “gender care” practitioners defrauding vulnerable, young clients. Glenna Goldis, an attorney who has dedicated her 15-year career to practicing public interest law, was terminated last Thursday from […]
