San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to his transition team on Monday. Lurie beat incumbent Mayor London Breed this past election with the help of donations from other tech leaders in artificial intelligence. While his transition team was largely made up of political figures, as a political novice, he included two […]
As some Senate Republicans privately and publicly express doubt that former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has enough support to be confirmed as attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are beginning to float workarounds if the former Florida congressman doesn’t have the votes. Trump can only afford three defections within the Senate Republican conference […]
Democratic operatives in at least four Pennsylvania counties are acting in open defiance of a state Supreme Court ruling by agreeing to count mail-in ballots that are either missing the date on the outer envelope or have the wrong one. It’s a bold last-ditch effort to overturn the results in the U.S. Senate race between […]
The second round of November’s Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, will go out to the second group of retirees in one days. Here is everything you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments. BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RULEMAKING BLITZES AIM TO TRUMP-PROOF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT When does the check arrive? […]
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas dropped on Tuesday to $3.063, according to AAA. This is the lowest national average price for regular gas since June 2021, when the average cost was $3.064 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Since then, high gas prices, at over $3 per […]
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has big plans for his new role in the Trump administration, which could include “deleting” multiple federal agencies. But not everyone is convinced that’s advisable or even possible. “We expect mass reductions, we expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” Ramaswamy said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “We […]
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out a large-scale pardon operation when he takes office, which could gift clean slates to hundreds of defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. While Trump has been largely mum on the specifics of the plan, his transition team, lawyers involved with the Jan. 6 […]
The House Ethics Committee is navigating a crisis of credibility as it weighs whether to release the findings of its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the attorney general nominee accused of sexual misconduct. The panel, which has been quietly investigating Gaetz for more than three years, is under mounting pressure to make its report […]
The Supplemental Security Income payment for the month of December, worth up to $943, goes out to millions of beneficiaries in 10 days. Beneficiaries will receive two checks this month because the next payments are scheduled to be distributed on Friday, Nov. 29, because Dec. 1 is a Sunday, and payments are not distributed on holidays or weekends. HERE’S WHICH […]
President-elect Donald Trump is a lot of things. He is a billionaire, a real estate developer, a game show host, and a soon-to-be two-time president of the United States. Yet, after observing the jovial celebrations by professional athletes over the last week, Trump can add one more title to his list of accomplishments: dance trendsetter. […]
