Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday that she is not running for reelection in 2026, giving the green light to district councilmembers waiting in the wings to launch their own mayoral runs. The two most prominent district leaders reportedly mulling a run are D.C. Councilmember At-Large Kenyan McDuffie, an independent, and Councilmember Janeese […]
The Brazilian mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt‘s 11-year-old nephew has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overstaying her visa by decades. Bruna Caroline Ferreria was formerly engaged to Michael Leavitt, the press secretary’s brother. The pair has joint custody over their son, CNN reported. Ferreria has lived in the U.S. […]
One of the last policy splits between President Donald Trump and outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) before her abrupt resignation from Congress came over the expiring Obamacare tax credits. Greene wanted to extend them, as did many Democratic lawmakers, as a condition for ending the government shutdown. Now, the Trump administration is eyeing a […]
The third round of November Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued today. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Nov. 26. The first round of payments already went out on Nov. 12 for retirees born on […]
A paperwork error from six years ago is threatening to overshadow rulings in the high-profile case of Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, turning what began as a story about a botched deportation under President Donald Trump into a running test of how well federal courts understand the basic mechanics of immigration law. At a hearing […]
History could repeat itself next year as Republicans debate reform to Obamacare, an issue that hampered the GOP at the ballot box during the 2018 midterm elections. President Donald Trump‘s proposal to address concerns regarding the cost of healthcare insurance before tax credits for Obamacare premiums under the Affordable Care Act, which were expanded during […]
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for women with special needs, following claims of sexual abuse allegedly committed by some of the biological men housed there. Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, a Reagan appointee, ruled last week that any transgender biological man at Federal Medical Center-Carswell, a women’s prison in […]
December Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will be issued to recipients in five days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, as is the case with December’s payment. If a payment falls on either a weekend or a holiday, however, SSI payments are issued on the last […]
The national average price for regular gas dropped on Wednesday to $3.042 per gallon. The decrease comes after several days of small increases that briefly saw the current national average slightly exceed gas prices from a year ago, according to AAA. Moreover, the drop in gas prices comes on what is traditionally known as the […]
President Donald Trump‘s surprisingly genial meeting with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took some bite out of the GOP‘s efforts to paint the incoming leader as the latest Democratic boogeyman ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. For months, Trump denigrated Mamdani as a “communist lunatic,” while the GOP sought to make Mamdani, a socialist, the […]
