Select residents of Maine are poised to get payments of up to $500 that will be rolled out on the week of Dec. 12 to help alleviate pressures from ballooning heating costs.
In less than a week, millions of Social Security beneficiaries will receive direct payments worth an average of $1,681 for those whose birthday falls between the 1st and 10th of each month.
The Biden administration agreed to a high-profile prisoner exchange with the Kremlin to secure the release of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner on Thursday, but it was unable to do the same for Paul Whelan, another American it considers wrongfully detained.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre experienced a speech mishap during a recent press briefing, accidentally responding to a question with the wrong answer from her notes.
People who receive Supplemental Security Income benefits are only three weeks away from the second of two payments to be distributed in December because of a scheduling quirk, with the checks being worth a combined total of $1,755.
WNBA star Brittney Griner is now free, but her liberation came at the cost of unleashing a notorious Russian arms dealer named Viktor Bout, who had been penned up in a federal penitentiary in Illinois.
California residents still waiting to receive up to $1,050 to help offset the costs of rising inflation rates can expect the next wave of payments to arrive by the end of December.
The Washington Examiner's Kaylee McGhee White says Republicans will likely have a “tough” time passing legislation in the next two years after the Georgia Senate runoff on Tuesday handed Democrats a true majority in the Senate.
Operators of the Keystone oil pipeline linking the United States to Canada issued an emergency shutdown of the line on Thursday after it began leaking crude oil into a creek in Kansas.
