The last of March’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, went out to the final group of retirees on Wednesday. The payment went out to beneficiaries who were born on or after the 21st of the month, according to the Social Security Administration’s calendar, […]
States concerned about the unresolved border crisis have taken matters into their own hands and are following Texas’s strategy to deter illegal immigrants from their jurisdictions by allowing local police to arrest and deport them. A handful of states have begun to move or attempted unsuccessfully to move their own versions of Texas law, S.B. […]
NBC News parted ways with former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday, sparking a parade of celebration and criticism. “NBC takes one of its new conservative hires and tries to ruin her with an internal pile-on from sanctimonious anchors trying to act like they are deeply offended by her, all while hoping no […]
Six people are presumed dead after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed. At approximately 1:30 a.m., a 948-foot Singapore-flagged container ship called the Dali crashed into one of the bridge’s support columns, causing it to collapse. Six people are missing, though U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath announced in a Tuesday news conference […]
Republican Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake forfeited her ability to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit, instead asking the court to decide damages. Lake, who lost her 2022 bid for governor to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), justified her decision by saying she was a victim of lawfare, or the use of the legal system to […]
Former President Donald Trump railed against officials working behind the scenes on the criminal cases against him this week, claiming they were deputies of President Joe Biden who were attempting to interfere with the presidential election. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has repeatedly looked to these officials, who have lesser-known names but heavy involvement […]
A Democratic veteran political action committee targeted seven vulnerable Republican lawmakers in a series of TV ads on Tuesday, pressuring the lawmakers to vote in favor of sending more aid to Ukraine. The liberal veteran-focused VoteVets.org Action Fund will roll out the two-week $530,000 ad buy, which is targeting Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Marc Molinaro […]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the race to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should not be a major focus in the months leading up to the 2024 election, and instead Republicans should be concentrating on taking control of the upper chamber. McConnell announced that he would step away from leadership in late February, […]
Retired Justice Stephen Breyer believes the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago marked a “deeply regressive feature” of the approach to law taken by the high court’s Republican-appointed majority, according to his new book. Breyer, 85, was an appointee of former President Bill Clinton who retired in 2022, just days after […]
President Joe Biden mocked former President Donald Trump‘s appearance to donors as he and his campaign escalate their attacks on their 2024 general election opponent. Biden made the comments during a fundraiser in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a part of his stump speech where he makes fun of his own age but compares his ideas […]
