There is a little less than three weeks until millions of beneficiaries receive March’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers. The payment goes out in 19 days, on March 1, and will mark the second paycheck for 2024 since no payments went out in January due to a scheduling quirk […]
Federal investigators have recovered $28 million worth of fake NFL merchandise ahead of the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers this weekend. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, or IPR Center, announced ahead of the big game in Las Vegas that federal law enforcement agents have […]
The Wisconsin Elections Commission provided new guidance Thursday that will allow state election officials to accept absentee ballot envelopes that are missing parts of witness address information. In a 5-1 vote, with Republican Commissioner Bob Spindell voting against it, the commission decided that clerks could accept absentee ballots with partial witness information so long as […]
Public health experts are raising concern about the growing number of measles outbreaks across the United States, saying that unvaccinated children are most at risk of contracting severe disease. “Those of us in healthcare are definitely leaning into this and paying attention,” Patricia Stinchfield, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told the Washington […]
President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday, Feb. 16, to mark the anniversary of the train derailment, according to a White House readout. The White House had previewed a visit to East Palestine in late January, but it was unknown when it would occur. “On Friday, February 16, just over one […]
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) rebuked both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden while speaking in Lexington, Virginia, on Saturday. “This election should be about results, not personalities,” Kemp said during Washington and Lee University’s Mock Convention, created in 1908 to model the “Nominating Convention of the party out-of-power in the White House” — […]
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) claimed he wanted “to really defend” President Joe Biden after special counsel Robert Hur‘s scathing report cast serious doubt on the president’s mental faculties. Phillips made a round of television interviews after Biden’s competence was called into question by Hur, who referred to the president as “an elderly man” with “poor memory.” […]
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley defended her husband after her 2024 opponent Donald Trump attacked him in a speech. Trump was in South Carolina Saturday addressing a rally in Conway to get out the vote ahead of the state’s Republican primary on Feb. 24. Haley is also in South Carolina on […]
Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) defeated New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy in the state’s first Democratic convention of the 2024 Senate primary race. Kim’s blowout victory in the Monmouth County Democratic convention, with 56.8% to Murphy’s 38.8%, was the first test among the Democratic candidates for the seat of indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who […]
Former President Donald Trump questioned whether President Joe Biden is mentally fit to run for office on Saturday after a special counsel report this week refused to charge him with a crime. Special counsel Robert Hur released a report on Thursday that claimed pressing charges against the president for possessing classified documents at the Penn […]
