January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 26 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 […]

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has had to contend with the rebellion of a handful of House Republican women in recent weeks, with several disagreements spilling into public view. Four Republican women have expressed a wide range of frustrations with the speaker over the last several weeks, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]

A massive internet outage disabled major websites for the second time in about a month. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare experienced an unexpected disruption on Friday morning, causing many of the world’s top internet sites to go down. Canva, Coinbase, LinkedIn, Shopify, Substack, and Zoom were among the sites reportedly affected. Users trying to access […]

House appropriators want to move forward with a smaller set of spending bills before the end of the year, fearing the larger package preferred by the Senate will create a last-minute fight for Congress in January. Appropriators in the lower chamber are eyeing a three-bill “minibus” that they could put on the floor in December, […]