Six years ago, while still legally a child, Olivia Rodrigo left her career as a Disney Channel actress with the intent of becoming a pop star. This is a tale as old as time, or at least as venerable as Annette Funicello’s singing career, and the blueprint for success is well understood: sign with a […]

Nikki Floris, a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who helped oversee election security in 2020, wrote that she was “basically running a shadow government across the FBI” as the bureau recalled a report alleging China was manufacturing fraudulent driver’s licenses for a mail-in ballot scheme. President Donald Trump invoked the same “shadow government” language during […]

The third round of July Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on July 22. The first round went out on July 8 to those born on or before […]

Andy Burnham, newly appointed as the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, will be waltzing into 10 Downing Street on Monday after an unopposed campaign to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The former Manchester mayor has presented himself as Labour’s savior after many grim months of public polling showed his predecessor was […]