Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security at around 10 a.m. on Thursday morning. Her testimony comes as part of an annual committee hearing on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” as it is titled. She will appear alongside director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent and operations […]
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) on Wednesday launched a petition through his Patriotic PAC group to pressure the Trump administration into firing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny from Congress over his department’s authorization of strikes against alleged drug boats off the coast of Venezuela. Ryan has suggested Hegseth may have committed war […]
President Donald Trump personally attacked the Indiana Republican leader in the state Senate on Wednesday, the day before the legislative body is supposed to vote on a contentious redistricting bill. In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump took issue with Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray’s defiant opposition to the Republican Party’s mid-decade redistricting […]
January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 20 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, though January’s payment will go out on Dec. 31. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, the latter being the […]
A Thursday vote on expiring Obamacare subsidies is presenting Senate Republicans with their latest unity test as Democrats seek to make the 2026 elections a referendum on affordability. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is offering Republicans a GOP alternative to the three-year extension Democrats will bring to the floor, and most of his members appear […]
The second round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in six days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on Dec. 17. The first round of payments went out on Dec. 10 to recipients born on […]
MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania — President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night audience left the Mount Airy Casino Resort in high spirits, but some attendees had lingering doubts about the current and future state of the economy. Republicans have spent weeks pressing Trump and White House officials to do more to sell the president’s economic platform heading into a […]
Venezuela opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado didn’t arrive in Oslo, Norway, in time to receive her award on Wednesday, but she was able to escape Venezuela. Machado, who has been in hiding for over a year and has not made a public appearance in 11 months, reportedly safely arrived in […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will end the year with a small but symbolic victory on blue slips as Democrats sign off on a handful of President Donald Trump’s less controversial nominees for U.S. attorney. Senate Democrats in Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine have returned blue slips for three prosecutor nominees currently making their way through […]
EXCLUSIVE — A collation of pro-Palestinian Philadelphia public school teachers is working closely with Students for Justice in Palestine, an activist group that has publicly praised Hamas and faces multiple congressional investigations over its alleged terrorism ties, private messages obtained by the Washington Examiner show. “We are beginning talks about a collaborative teach-in with several […]
