The first round of October Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The second round will go out on Oct. 21 to those born between […]
President Donald Trump decried the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, saying the decision disgraced Norway as a whole. Speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York, Trump went on a lengthy tangent over the decision to give his coveted prize to someone else. He began by denigrating Pillay’s […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bashed President Donald Trump’s deal with Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to global markets, giving arguably his most direct and biting criticism of Trump so far. Trump announced the deal on Friday in a post on Truth Social after a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, […]
A U.N. whistleblower accused former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, who was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, of ignoring and even being “complicit in the Uyghur genocide.” Almost as soon as Pillay, 85, was chosen for the award, a flurry of criticisms emerged, largely around her focus on […]
President Donald Trump has tapped former Department of Homeland Security public affairs official Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, a choice that caught current and former DHS officials who had worked with Zacharia off guard. Zacharia, 41, worked for several weeks earlier this year as deputy spokeswoman for the 270,000-person federal department before abruptly […]
Republicans are brushing off signs of an unexpectedly competitive Senate race in South Carolina, where President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate is locked in a statistical tie with her Democratic opponent less than a month before Election Day. Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), who was appointed to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham in July, is running […]
President Donald Trump told reporters he was going to “make a determination” when asked whether the execution of the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan should be livestreamed. “I’m going to make a determination about that, but he will be killed,” Trump said on Friday at the White House. “He will be, through firing squad. […]
Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was spotted on the campaign trail for the first time after a nearly two-week absence, an absence that drew heavy speculation. Talarico disappeared late last month in the homestretch of the critical Senate race. His campaign told the media on Friday that it was due to a diagnosis of […]
President Donald Trump is speaking at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. Trump is set to take the stage at 7 p.m. KATHY HOCHUL COUNTS ON MAMDANI TO REV REELECTION TURNOUT DESPITE GOP ATTACKS Blakeman’s bid against Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is considered a long shot, given the […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) warned Florida residents Friday to evacuate areas expected to be affected by incoming Hurricane Isaias, as the Gulf Coast braces for the first big storm of the season. The Category 3 storm is set to hit the north Gulf Coast on Friday evening before reaching Alabama, according to the National Hurricane […]
