Virginia Democrats made a hasty appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to overturn the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down the redistricting referendum but were mocked for numerous spelling mistakes that appeared in court documents. “First, if you are going to appeal to SCOTUS maybe don’t misspell Virginia????” former Republican Attorney General […]
Passengers have begun evacuating the MV Hondius cruise ship that was hit by a rare hantavirus outbreak, boarding planes after the ship is docked in Spain’s Canary Islands. The Dutch cruise ship, carrying about 150 people from 23 different nations, landed in the Spanish island of Tenerife on Sunday morning to begin disembarking its passengers […]
The June 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 22 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, aged 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) could be the speaker next year, holding the keys to whether President Donald Trump’s final two years are productive or consumed by impeachment and government shutdown fights. But the duo’s fraught relationship points to the latter. On Thursday, Trump implied Jeffries bore responsibility for the April 25 attempt on […]
A fight for influence between France, Russia, and the United States in the central Sahel has fomented disaster in the region, after an al Qaeda affiliate filled the vacuum opened by the competition. As a former colony of the French Empire, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have traditionally fallen in France’s orbit. Paris intervened in […]
The first round of May Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on May 14. The second round will go out on May 21 to those born between the […]
The Trump administration‘s policy of keeping illegal immigrants in detention during their deportation proceedings has resulted in hundreds of lawsuits and has splintered appeals courts over its legality, leading the issue toward likely Supreme Court review as more appeals courts weigh in with different interpretations of the policy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
President Donald Trump attacked James Comey twice on Saturday night, calling him a 'dirty cop' and 'pathetic' one day after judge set Comey's trial date.
