A presidential election rematch in 2024 between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has helped pave the way for renewed interest in third-party candidates. The most dominant interloper is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently polling at a healthy 11.7% and is being taken seriously, particularly by the DNC. This cycle has also seen No […]
The first of April’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, went out to the first group of retirees on Wednesday. The payment went out on April 10 to beneficiaries who were born on or before the 10th of the month, according to the Social […]
There first of two May Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $943 for individual filers, goes out to millions of beneficiaries in exactly three weeks. The first installment will go out on Wednesday, May 1, to people with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according to the Social Security Administration. […]
Leaders from Japan and the Philippines will be meeting with President Joe Biden this week, but it’s another country that will be on everyone’s mind. The president is hosting a state visit with Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, complete with a state dinner and various diplomatic events. Yet the more serious discussions […]
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) made several gaffes and blunders while speaking to students at a Texas high school ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse. During an educational program at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston on Monday in which she was a guest speaker, Jackson Lee claimed that the moon was “made up mostly […]
As President Joe Biden‘s popularity has dipped among young voters, he’s outpacing past Democratic presidential candidates with the opposite demographic, senior citizens, who routinely vote to the right of the general electorate. A string of polls show the president leading former President Donald Trump among the over 65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won’t […]
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) blamed Republicans for the state’s abortion ban, tracing it back to 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning abortions in nearly all cases, only making exceptions when the mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions. Despite denouncements from many of the […]
The White House pushed back on calls for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas conflict by calling for the terrorist group to release hostages it has held for six months. “You have a party, Hamas, who is holding innocent people that it took hostage a long time ago,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said. “There could […]
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in favor of special counsel Jack Smith’s request to hide the names of witnesses involved in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. The decision marks the end of a monthslong saga after Smith argued that the release of the names could expose them to danger. The identities […]
A Missouri man was executed for the murder of his cousin and her husband in 2006. Brian Dorsey, 52, was executed via lethal injection on Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. “To all of the family and loved ones I share with Sarah and to all of the surviving family and loved ones […]
