The October Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994 for an individual filer, will be sent to recipients in 12 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month, or on the last business day of the prior month if the first day falls on a federal holiday or a […]
Republicans preparing to trade the halls of Congress for the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections lament they have few achievements to tout as higher gas prices from the Iran war and voters’ affordability concerns drag them down. The House left town a day early this week and won’t return until after the Nov. […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) is taking an active role in Democrats’ quest to flip a Trump-won House district in Kentucky, lending his name and fundraising operation to a former adviser running to replace outgoing Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY). Beshear, a popular second-term governor and the rare Democrat to hold statewide office in Kentucky, plans to […]
President Donald Trump is getting fresh clues that his support from Hispanic voters may be slipping after two House Republicans broke with him on immigration enforcement. Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Monica De La Cruz (R-TX), two Hispanic members of the House GOP conference, released advertisements over the past week distancing themselves from Immigration […]
Senate candidate Bert Mizusawa is pitching himself to Virginia voters as a battle-tested alternative to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). The Republican is arguing that his four decades in uniform and on the front lines of national security better fit the state’s deep military roots. Mizusawa won the Republican nomination in August and will face Warner […]
By any measure, President Donald Trump’s first stint in office was a good time to become famous for opposing him. Alexander Vindman testified before Congress in 2019, leading to Trump’s first impeachment, and became a household name overnight. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) won a House seat in 2022, coming off his turn as the lead […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — President Donald Trump is less popular by the day, and Republicans are facing increasingly fierce political headwinds ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. But Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is warning Democrats against overconfidence, pointing to a stark GOP cash edge and possible election chicanery by the Trump administration and its […]
For decades, many Vietnam veterans carried the memories of war, and the pain that followed them home, largely in silence. Now, a new documentary produced and narrated by actor and veteran advocate Gary Sinise is bringing a group of those veterans back to Vietnam for the first time, as the country marks the 50th anniversary […]
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is working overtime to win over black voters, a crucial demographic if he is to score an upset win over Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state President Donald Trump won by 14 points in 2024. Talarico’s outreach comes on the heels of a bitter primary against Rep. Jasmine […]
TOKYO — In this land of wonders, a bastion of liberal democracy in a continent dominated by imperial powers, contradictions abound. The Japanese sit silently in metro cars and stroll noiselessly to work on bustling streets, but cheer raucously at baseball games. Bullet trains whisk by at 200 miles per hour, and impossibly sophisticated toilets […]