The first round of April’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at 70, will go out to retirees in four days. Social Security payments typically begin on the second Wednesday of every month, and the following waves go out in the subsequent weeks. The distribution of payments depends on which day of the month a retiree […]
Washington, D.C., specializes in legacies. The monuments honoring past presidents, the heroes forever etched on street signs, and the last names that seem never to leave placards outside congressional offices as family members seek to honor their relatives’ memory and carry on their work with a new spin. Over the last few years, there have […]
Several departments within the federal government had personnel cuts leaked or reported while the U.S. fixates on and adjust’s to the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs. Positions at the IRS, State Department, and Energy Department have been marked for cuts or planned cuts during the tariff firestorm, which has plunged the stock market into the red. […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has yet to call a special election to fill recently deceased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner’s seat in Texas’s 18th Congressional District. He blamed Harris County’s abilities in conducting elections for his delay in announcing an election for the seat, which has been vacant for nearly a month since Turner died on […]
Senate Democrats are expected to challenge President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs on Friday night as Republicans attempt to advance a blueprint that unlocks his legislative agenda. In a marathon voting session that clears the way for the president’s tax, border, and energy priorities, Democrats signaled they would pillory Republicans over the market-rattling tariffs the […]
James Carville said law firms deciding to collaborate with President Donald Trump amid his executive orders punishing their previous legal work against him were no different than Nazi “collaborators” working with Hitler during World War II. In various executive orders, Trump threatened to revoke federal contracts and employees’ security clearances for law firms that helped […]
The Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, granting an emergency stay that halts a lower court order requiring the Education Department to immediately reinstate over $65 million in teacher training grants canceled over concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The 5-4 ruling marks the administration’s first win at the high court since President Donald Trump […]
The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout flipped the Chinese government’s position on the issue, the Washington Examiner has learned. Sources familiar with the negotiations say the White House, with lead negotiator Vice President JD Vance, had finalized a deal on Wednesday […]
A judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must return a Salvadoran national, whom it mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, back to the United States no later than Monday night. Judge Paula Xinis, a federal judge in Maryland, said in an order that Trump officials violated immigration law by deporting Kilmar […]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered 60,000 voters who submitted ballots without key identification information to prove their eligibility or have their votes tossed in the still-undecided 2024 state Supreme Court race. The 2-1 Friday decision was the first legal victory for conservative Jefferson Griffin in his bid to unseat incumbent liberal justice […]
