The April 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in four days. SSI payments are typically issued to beneficiaries on the first day of each month. Beneficiaries are people with limited income who are either blind, aged 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries […]
Controversial school policies hiding students’ gender transitions from parents remains a ripe issue the Supreme Court should take up, activists argue, despite the justices already handing parents a win in an emergency docket case on the matter earlier this month. The Supreme Court’s emergency docket ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta gave temporary relief to parents […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration has shut down three social media accounts that recently retired Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino renamed to his personal title and had refused to return despite them being federal property, the Washington Examiner has learned. Facebook, Instagram, and X accounts that had a combined audience of 850,000 people, belonging to the Border […]
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was praised for landing a series of blue-chip battleground Senate recruits for the midterm elections, but those same candidates are avoiding whether they’d support the Senate minority leader staying at the helm of the Democratic caucus. In the four states Democrats see as key to retaking the majority — Alaska, Maine, […]
Millions of dollars in cash, including large sums believed to be funding foreign terrorists, continue to fly out of the Minneapolis airport annually, according to lawmakers investigating the money funneling schemes. Republican Minnesota state Rep. Kristin Robbins, chairwoman of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, told the Washington Examiner that these cash-smuggling […]
Three House Democrats broke with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Friday, handing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a key win on a short-term plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security amid a weeks-long shutdown fight over immigration enforcement. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) voted with 209 House […]
At least ten U.S. service members were injured in an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia on Friday, according to reports. Two of the troops were seriously injured as well, the Associated Press reported on Friday night. Multiple U.S. and Arab officials said that a building on the base was struck […]
The House voted to pass a short-term funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security late Friday night, rebelling against a plan from Senate Republicans that omitted funding for immigration enforcement agencies. House Republican leaders pushed a bill, through a rare procedural vote that bypassed an hour of debate and a second vote, that would […]
A federal judge heard arguments Friday in a closely watched dispute between Georgia’s Fulton County and the Trump administration over whether the FBI must return thousands of 2020 election ballots seized during a January search warrant execution, as both sides sharply clashed over the scope of an ongoing federal investigation. The hearing before U.S. District […]
Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on the nature of extraterrestrial life in a wide-ranging podcast interview, suggesting that so-called “aliens” may instead be demons. Appearing on The Benny Show, hosted by right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson, Vance talked about extraterrestrials and offered an unexpected take. “I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, […]
