February 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in five days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month. However, February’s payment will go out on Jan. 30. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, SSI payments are issued […]
Vulnerable members of Congress who rely on the gambling industry to fund their campaigns are pushing legislation that the industry wants passed, a Washington Examiner review of campaign finance filings has found. Reps. Susie Lee (D), Steven Horsford (D), Mark Amodei (R), and Diana Titus (D) — all from Nevada — have thrown their support […]
The House Homeland Security Committee has requested testimony from the leaders of key agencies behind the Trump administration‘s sweeping immigration raids just hours after another officer-involved shooting occurred in Minneapolis on Saturday. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) summoned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner […]
Senate Democrats have threatened to block the passage of the appropriations bill funding the government after the deadly shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. In a statement on Saturday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed a blockade against the legislation if the funding bill for the Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump has surged emergency aid and resources to 10 states shortly before a winter storm is set to hit much of the Northeast and parts of the South. “I have just approved Emergency Declarations for Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia. We are working closely with […]
Marine. Yale graduate. Calls the Rust Belt home with his beautiful, growing, mixed-race family. On paper, Vice President JD Vance ticks all the boxes for what the next generation of politics could look like. But 2028 is a long way off. First, Republicans have to face the midterms, where the Trump administration’s record will be […]
Democratic lawmakers are calling for the defunding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its removal from Minnesota, following a second fatal federal agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis. Border Patrol agents fatally shot a man in south Minneapolis Saturday morning during a physical altercation. The agents were attempting to make an arrest where the shooting occurred, two […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday alleged that Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey are “inciting insurrection” with their harsh anti-immigration enforcement rhetoric. Earlier in the day, an armed man was shot dead while engaging in a physical altercation with officers. Other administration officials have also voiced their strong support for federal law […]
President Donald Trump boasted on Saturday that a secret weapon, which he dubbed “The Discombobulator,” was a key part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the strike to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 3. “They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off,” […]
Russia launched 375 drones and 21 missiles on Saturday against Ukraine, causing millions to lose power in the middle of winter, the embattled country said. The attack occurred on the second day of Ukrainian, Russian, and American diplomats meeting in Abu Dhabi for trilateral peace talks. “Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? Diplomacy? For […]
