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Meet the pro-Hamas activist courted by the Biden administration

He’s called Palestinian terrorists “freedom fighters,” bragged about telling the White House he won’t “apologize for Hamas firing rockets at Israel,” and defended the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in the Jewish state. Meet Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, an anti-Israel website in Dearborn, a city in Michigan with the largest Muslim […]

Social Security update: First round of February payments worth $4,873 goes out in three days

The first round of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in three days. Retired seniors born on or between the first and 10th of a month should receive their payment on Wednesday, according to the […]

Social Security update: March direct payment worth $943 goes out in 19 days

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 […]

Feds seize $28 million in fake NFL gear ahead of Super Bowl

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 […]

Wisconsin will accept absentee ballot envelopes with partial witness addresses ahead of 2024 election

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 […]

Measles outbreaks: What to know about growing concern

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 […]

White House reveals Biden will visit East Palestine on Friday

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 […]

Brian Kemp chides Trump and Biden ahead of 2024 election: ‘Not a race to the bottom’

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” — […]

Phillips going to bat for Biden doesn’t win him any goodwill from Democrats

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.” […]

Haley sticks up for husband after Trump attacks him for absence on campaign trail 

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 […]
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