ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone struck emergency workers on rescue missions in southern Ukraine on Sunday, hitting a former school and nearby shelter that had been earlier blasted by multiple Russian guided bombs as residents waited for humanitarian aid, authorities said. No one was injured in Sunday’s strike on the village of Komyshuvakha, […]
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said she would not fully back current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to be the next majority leader when Democrats retake the majority in January. Slotkin told Politico that no single Democrat can claim credit for the party’s overall blue wave in the 2026 midterm elections, adding that she wouldn’t […]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said there are several decisions from which she dissented, including the decision on presidential immunity, that she hopes the Supreme Court overturns in her lifetime. “I dissent a lot,” Sotomayor said during an event at the George Washington Presidential Library. “I’m hoping that the court will take back some of […]
WASHINGTON — Fresh off resounding wins in the midterm elections, congressional Democrats on Saturday placated their base ravenous for investigations of President Donald Trump, pledging to launch sweeping oversight targeting Trump and his allies and threatening to use the courts to enforce their investigative authority. Democratic members of the chief investigative committees appeared at Crooked […]
The December 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 23 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, age 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) was the top pick of attendees at a progressive convention in Washington, D.C., to be Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Of the 990 poll respondents at Crooked Con, hosted by Crooked Media, 38.4% of attendees selected Ossoff as their first choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]
Alice Cooper is a rock ’n’ roll oddity. If you’re at all familiar with his macabre onstage persona, the notion that he’s not normal even by the standards of rock stars seems obvious enough. What’s not so obvious is the way his cultural influence has been felt. What makes him a true oddity is that […]
The Justice Department is weathering the Trump administration’s first wave of post-midterm departures, with three senior officials announcing their exits in the days following Democrats’ sweeping victories on Tuesday. U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones and Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg, the department’s top national security official, resigned on Friday. Their departure followed Civil Rights Division […]
The first round of November Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in two days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The second round will go out on Nov. 18 to those born between […]
Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-SC) has a long track record of supporting gun control and treating firearms deaths, especially among minors, as a public health issue, a break from tradition in a state that has historically strongly backed Second Amendment rights. Andrews, the Senate’s first female physician and first pediatrician, credits her stance on gun control […]
