The first round of August Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in 17 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Aug. 12. The second round will go out on Aug. 19 to those born between […]
The Swiss financial firm UBS faces persistent Senate questioning and the chance of new lawsuits over Nazi-era bank accounts. Senators and activists have sought accountability since the 1990s from Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank UBS acquired in 2023, on how it facilitated Nazi clients’ thefts from Jews and post-World War II escape plans. A 1999 […]
The Trump administration blames Russia for the deteriorating security situation in Mali, as the president is reportedly considering military strikes against an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group known as Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin. The Alliance of Sahel States consists of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, all West African countries where military leaders have seized […]
A federal judge handed a loss to Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and an immigration policy win to President Donald Trump on Friday after ruling that Illinois state laws providing in-state tuition and other public benefits to illegal immigrants are “unconstitutional and invalid” under the Supremacy Clause. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Illinois […]
At least one person is dead and 16 others have been injured after a van drove into a crowd of people at an LGBT-themed event in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, at around 10 p.m. local time. Police canceled the event just hours after it began “after a van slammed into people gathered” for “celebrations and […]
President Donald Trump was handed a setback in his quest to alter mail-in voting policy in federal elections on Saturday by a federal appeals court. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston declined to lift an injunction blocking key provisions of a March executive order that sought to alter rules around mail-in ballots […]
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of student-led protests over allegations of failing to prevent leaks of medical school entrance exams. The Cockroach Janta Party, a youth movement that challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of youth unemployment and educational opportunities, called for an end to the weekslong effort to oust […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) prolonged absence from Washington, D.C., has Republicans concerned about legislation they’re struggling to push through Congress given the confines of their narrow majority. The party holds only a 53-to-47 majority in the Senate, making every vote critical. McConnell’s absence, since a fall and subsequent hospitalization on June 14, has stalled high-stakes […]
Pop superstar Katy Perry called out the Trump administration on Saturday for using her song on the White House TikTok account. “I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, […]
Texas officials on Friday said that testing confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not carrying drugs in his vehicle, striking down the FBI’s initial assessment that there could have been drugs in the construction laborer’s work van when he was killed by immigration agents. Araujo was shot dead in Houston earlier this month after being targeted […]
