The second round of July Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, goes out to recipients tomorrow. When does the check arrive? Social Security payments usually begin on the second Wednesday of every month, and the following waves go out in the subsequent weeks. The distribution […]
August Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will go out to recipients in 17 days. SSI payments are typically distributed at the start of every month to beneficiaries with limited income who are either blind, 65 and older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount recipients receive varies based on several factors, including […]
One year ago, then-former President Donald Trump was shot during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The tragic event, which resulted in the death of a rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, transformed the 2024 presidential race. In Butler, there is still little in the way of answers. This Washington Examiner series will look at where things stand one […]
President Donald Trump has racked up several key victories at the Supreme Court, but the Trump administration’s lengthy legal docket has not cleared up. The Trump administration continues to face a barrage of lawsuits and court orders that have hampered much of the president’s agenda, even as it has had major wins at the Supreme […]
The Department of Defense has linked large sums of cash between corporations and China’s People’s Liberation Army to influence U.S. policy this year, lobbying records show. DJI, a drone manufacturer, and Tencent, a technology conglomerate, appear on the Pentagon’s 1260h entity list. The list of “Chinese military companies” documents corporations that the DOD has determined […]
Senators are hearing from the White House and President Donald Trump himself as the Senate prepares to vote on the first DOGE-inspired legislation of his second term. Russ Vought, the White House budget chief, will visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss his request to cancel $9.4 billion in spending, known as a rescission bill. […]
Sen. Rand Paul wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday requesting that the Department of Justice investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci for potential criminal prosecution regarding Fauci’s congressional testimony in May 2021 about gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci is the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and […]
The Michigan Supreme Court provided the Republican National Committee with a victory in a battle over election integrity on Monday. the court ruled that Michigan’s state GOP had standing to file a lawsuit against a board of election commissioners for not hiring enough Republican poll workers in the 2022 elections. The state Supreme Court ruling […]
Sectarian fighting between the Druze and Bedouins in southern Syria has killed over 50 people, with Israel intervening with airstrikes to prevent government soldiers from gathering in the south. Syria once again risks descending back into sectarian strife, this time in the majority Druze south. According to the Russian open-source intelligence channel Rybar, the conflict […]
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said there were no immediate plans to vote on Russian sanctions, indicating the matter would be postponed until after the August recess. “Not right now,” he told Politico when asked if there were immediate plans. However, he also tacitly approved President Donald Trump circumventing a sanctions bill and acting unilaterally […]
