The next wave of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to a second group of retirees in three days. Retired seniors born on or between the 11th and 20th of their birth month will receive the second payment this Wednesday, according […]
Millions of beneficiaries will receive March’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, in less than two weeks. The payment will go out 12 days from now, on Friday, March 1, and is just the second paycheck for 2024 because no payments went out in January due to a scheduling quirk […]
Inflation isn’t moving down as quickly as the Federal Reserve hoped, forcing investors to dig in for a longer wait for the central bank to begin cutting interest rates. Two inflation reports this week undercut the notion that the Fed will begin its pivot to rate cuts sooner rather than later. The data show that […]
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) blasted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House Republican Conference, whom she said “have been unable to govern” since they took control of the lower chamber of Congress last year. The Washington congresswoman appeared Saturday on MSNBC’s The Weekend to comment on the lack of action on pressing matters such as […]
The United States and Estonia will transfer nearly $500,000 in forfeited Russian funds to Ukraine, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Estonian Secretary General Tõnis Saar made the announcement Saturday at the Munich Security Conference. The U.S. forfeited the money “following the breakup of […]
Former President Donald Trump excoriated New York Judge Arthur Engoron as a “lunatic” and “crooked judge” during a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, ahead of the state’s primary election on Feb. 27. The comments came one day after Engoron ordered Trump and his associates to pay roughly $364 million in penalties after a monthslong civil […]
Four-fifths of Americans say the federal government is doing a bad job handling the influx of immigrants at the southern border, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Friday. While dissatisfaction was more prevalent among Republican respondents at 89%, nearly three-quarters of those who identified as Democrats also said the government is doing either […]
The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday that they arrested roughly 100 people during their raid of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. It is at least the second time the IDF raided a hospital, following its raid of Al Shifa Hospital in November 2023. In that case, tunnels were discovered under the hospital, which is […]
Former Rep. George Santos filed a lawsuit Saturday against talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for using his Cameo videos on the late-night program. Santos has solicited Cameo videos from paying subscribers, including Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), for example, who hired the former congressman to make a video offering counsel to Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). However, […]
Alina Habba, the lawyer representing former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud case in New York, criticized the verdict Judge Arthur Engoron handed down Friday, claiming he will not “get away with it.” Trump and his associates were found liable for committing decades of business fraud and ordered to pay about $364 million in […]
