President Joe Biden‘s staff had to alter the official transcript of his State of the Union speech following a high-profile gaffe, repeating a pattern that’s occurring with some frequency in 2024. In one of the speech’s defining and most bizarre moments, Biden held up a button given to him by firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA). […]
Hunter Biden’s computer data, long a source of national scrutiny, is now a central feature in his various legal battles, but the first son is handling the data in different ways depending on the case, according to his court filings. Biden is aiming to prove data belongs to him in a lawsuit against former Trump […]
The first of March’s three Social Security payments, which is worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in less than a week. Retirees born on or between the 1st and 10th of the month will get their payments in four days, […]
April’s monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in a little over three weeks. The next installment will go out in 23 days, on Monday, April 1, to people who struggle with a serious debilitating disability and have a limited income, according to […]
Actor Matthew McConaughey has reflected on the last 10 years of living in Texas, praising the Lone Star State’s “hospitality” since leaving California. The Interstellar actor revealed that he and his wife, Camila Alves, decided to move to Texas after a family emergency required them to visit his mother, Kay. “Time slowed down,” McConaughey said […]
Prominent Democratic economics advisers are arguing that the Biden administration and Congress must revamp rules regarding drug price negotiation to lower the price of new wonder drugs for obesity, such as Ozempic, or run the risk of bankrupting the federal government. “The magnitude of potential benefit and potential cost … posed by these drugs suggests […]
An extensive Himalayan art collection that belonged to the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, is set to be auctioned off on March 20 in New York. “Accumulated over a 30-year period, the 42 works on offer worth more than $3 million from the prominent couple’s collection are representative of the […]
In his third State of the Union address, President Joe Biden on Thursday evening railed against so-called dark money. Biden, before a joint session of Congress, urged lawmakers to pass legislation that Democrats say would make it easier to vote in elections. Almost 60 years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the […]
Former President Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, an unconventional move since Orban did not meet with President Joe Biden during the trip. Trump’s presidential campaign claimed the pair met to discuss a “wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States, including the paramount […]
Three people were killed and one other person was injured in a National Guard helicopter crash in Texas on Friday, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s joint task force. The crash occurred near the small border town of La Grulla, Texas, in East Starr County, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez with the Texas […]