CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of teenage migrants lined up outside a church in Ceuta in early October, hoping Spain’s visiting minister of youth would bring them some good news: passage to continental Europe or at least a spot in a shelter. For two months, they had slept on cardboard sheets and ripped sofas in […]
The November 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 20 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. If the first day falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the payment is sent on the last business day of the previous month […]
Pollsters and Republican political operatives aren’t fully buying the Democratic polling leads that project the minority party to flip the House and possibly win back the Senate, a task considered herculean at the start of the 2026 election cycle. Heading into the weekend, polls showed Democrats holding an advantage of more than 8 points over […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) is facing an early test of his 2028 presidential ambitions as prominent Texas Democrats accuse him of shortchanging their gubernatorial nominee and failing to engage Latino voters. Beshear is coming under criticism in his capacity as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association for not conducting enough outreach to Latino voters and […]
The first round of October Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The second round will go out on Oct. 21 to those born between […]
President Donald Trump decried the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, saying the decision disgraced Norway as a whole. Speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York, Trump went on a lengthy tangent over the decision to give his coveted prize to someone else. He began by denigrating Pillay’s […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bashed President Donald Trump’s deal with Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to global markets, giving arguably his most direct and biting criticism of Trump so far. Trump announced the deal on Friday in a post on Truth Social after a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, […]
A U.N. whistleblower accused former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, who was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, of ignoring and even being “complicit in the Uyghur genocide.” Almost as soon as Pillay, 85, was chosen for the award, a flurry of criticisms emerged, largely around her focus on […]
President Donald Trump has tapped former Department of Homeland Security public affairs official Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, a choice that caught current and former DHS officials who had worked with Zacharia off guard. Zacharia, 41, worked for several weeks earlier this year as deputy spokeswoman for the 270,000-person federal department before abruptly […]
Republicans are brushing off signs of an unexpectedly competitive Senate race in South Carolina, where President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate is locked in a statistical tie with her Democratic opponent less than a month before Election Day. Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), who was appointed to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham in July, is running […]
