The Supplemental Security Income check for January 2025 will be sent out to eligible recipients in eight days, with the payments worth up to $943 for individual filers. The Social Security Administration will issue SSI payments to eligible citizens on Dec. 31, in accordance with requirements that the benefits be given to recipients by the first day of the month. The mandate for recipients to […]
President Joe Biden‘s State Department has sent millions of dollars in federal funds across the globe in an effort to aid LGBT migrants and refugees residing in foreign countries, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of federal spending records. The bulk of the payments, roughly $6 million, went toward enhancing “access to rights” for “LGBTQI+ […]
Today is Dec. 23, affectionately known as “Festivus,” a secular celebration that started in the 1960s, but made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. It was created as a societal counter to the commercialism associated with the Christmas season. However, it’s also become synonymous with wasteful government spending, particularly the millions of dollars […]
Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D-CA) time in Congress might be coming to an end, but a group of Oakland’s top elected officials are hoping she will pivot and run for mayor. The self-described group of “business, labor, community, government, and faith leaders who rarely agree on things” released an open letter to Lee on Thursday claiming “extraordinary […]
The fall of former President Bashar Assad‘s regime in Syria creates a new wrinkle in a long-standing U.S. security concern: the thousands of detained Islamic State fighters held in prisons controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces. Several current and former defense officials warned prior to the fall of Assad that the prisons, along with the […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Bo Hines, a former college football player who twice ran for a North Carolina House seat, will be the executive director of his newly created Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, or “crypto council.” Trump announced the selection in a statement posted on Truth Social. “Bo Hines […]
President-elect Donald Trump has continued to solidify his administration with just under a month to go until Inauguration Day, announcing various picks for top positions in the Defense Department. While his pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has been trying to court senators who will need to back his bid after allegations of sexual […]
Former Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz hinted Sunday that he may enter the race for Sen. Marco Rubio‘s (R-FL) seat in the upper chamber of Congress, which will likely be vacated after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Rubio for secretary of state. Speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmFest in Phoenix, Arizona, Gaetz said he has received […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has had several blunt assessments of what went wrong with last month’s decisive Democratic losses, and said Sunday he believes labeling President-elect Donald Trump a “fascist” was one of them. Vice President Kamala Harris and many of her campaign allies decried Trump as a “fascist” in the closing weeks of the […]
Homestead from Angel Studios has made an estimated $6 million in its opening weekend, which places it in the box office top five. Along with the film, two streaming episodes that continue the storyline were released on Angel.com and the Angel Studios’s app. The first streaming season will span eight episodes for Angel Guild members. […]
