The Trump administration rescinded temporary protected status, or deportation protection, for Ethiopian illegal immigrants residing in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. The move is the latest in a series of recent Trump administration decisions to revoke TPS for immigrants from multiple countries, following Burma’s revocation in November. Roughly 4,500 Ethiopians will no longer […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget has amplified President Donald Trump‘s actions regarding artificial intelligence by directing AI vendors to measure and disclose political bias in their models when seeking contracts with the federal government. OMB Director Russell Vought, in the memorandum to federal departments and agencies that he issued Thursday, described his […]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia vowed to “fight” against the Trump administration on Friday, one day after a federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release him from custody. The once-detained Salvadoran national appeared outside an ICE field office in Baltimore, Maryland, where he urged supporters to stand strong and keep fighting alongside him. Shortly after, […]
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured a temporary restraining order on Thursday in his legal battle with the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government over his memoir that focused on his administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo filed a lawsuit with the Albany County Supreme Court this week, seeking to prohibit […]
The second round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on Dec. 17. The first round of payments went out on Dec. 10 to recipients born on […]
House Democrats are eyeing a bipartisan discharge petition led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) over a similar proposal from Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits, though leadership has yet to throw its support behind either measure. There are two discharge petitions that look to extend the ACA subsidies, which expire at the end of the […]
January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 19 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, though January’s payment will go out on Dec. 31. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, the latter being the […]
The national average price for a gallon of gas dropped again on Friday to $2.932 per gallon. It marks the latest decrease in the national average for gas prices, which has been dropping as quickly as winter temperatures in the northeastern United States recently. Yesterday, the average price for regular gas was $2.94 per gallon, […]
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s administration is working overtime to prevent a full-blown military escalation between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, and to cool rising tensions between the Jewish state and Syria. Bringing regional peace and new economic opportunities to the volatile region is one of the president’s very top priorities. Washington’s […]
The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 bills in one recent day and held 13 committee meetings and hearings the day after. All told, the House has passed 41 bills since the end of the government shutdown on Nov. […]
