The first of March’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the biggest earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in just one day. Retirees born on or between the 1st and 10th of the month will get their payments tomorrow, on Wednesday, March 13, according […]
President Joe Biden submitted his budget request for fiscal 2025 on Monday, positioning it as a clear foil to proposals outlined by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies. Biden’s budget totals $7.3 trillion, up 4.7% compared to the current budget, and would boost defense funding and discretionary spending by 1% and 2.4%, respectively. […]
Democrats are giving little weight to the idea that special counsel Robert Hur’s testimony before Congress will dredge up concerns about President Joe Biden‘s mental acuity. Instead, Democrats are largely declaring that Bide’s State of the Union speech last week put age and memory questions to rest. Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents […]
Crime in Washington, D.C., is a crisis. Six months ago, the Washington Examiner looked at some of the problems plaguing the capital. In the months since, things feel worse than ever, but that might be starting to change. In this series, we are looking at how Washington wound up with its record on crime, how […]
Special counsel Robert Hur will face a grilling on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about his report that found President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents from his time as vice president and senator. Hur will appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a public hearing at 10 a.m. Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), […]
April’s monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in just under three weeks. The next installment will go out in 20 days, on Monday, April 1, to people who struggle with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according to […]
Former President Donald Trump is facing a momentous week in several of his ongoing criminal cases, from a judge’s forthcoming decision on whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in his Georgia election subversion case to a hearing on motions to dismiss his classified documents case in Florida. Trump is slated to have […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to reach the thresholds to become their parties’ presumptive presidential nominees after Tuesday night election results roll in. One week after Super Tuesday, voters in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington state will head to the polls on Tuesday, along with Democrats in the Northern Mariana Islands and Democrats […]
President Joe Biden will meet with leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Tuesday, just weeks after the union made its first donation to Republicans in two decades. Biden, who frequently calls himself the most pro-union president in history, hopes the Teamsters will endorse him at or following the meeting. But the votes of rank-and-file […]
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela has been accused of being responsible for a head-on collision that killed a 12-year-old Missouri boy. In December, Endrina Bracho, 33, allegedly sped through a 40 mph lane at 70 mph in the wrong lane, causing her to collide head-on with a vehicle containing Travis Wolfe, 12. Wolfe was taken […]
