New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and X CEO Elon Musk are trading barbs on social media after Musk took aim at Mamdani’s pick to lead the New York City Fire Department. Mamdani tapped Lillian Bonsignore, a retired EMS chief and former EMT, to be his FDNY commissioner on Dec. 23. The move brought backlash […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence has suddenly found himself at the center of one of the biggest intraconservative fights of President Donald Trump’s second term. Pence was once the bridge between Trump’s populism and an older strain of American conservatism dating back to Ronald Reagan’s administration when the two became the Republican presidential ticket in […]

January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in three 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 first round of January Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in 17 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Jan. 14.  The second round of payments will be sent out on Jan. 21 to recipients […]