December Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will be issued to recipients in five days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, as is the case with December’s payment. If a payment falls on either a weekend or a holiday, however, SSI payments are issued on the last […]

The national average price for regular gas dropped on Wednesday to $3.042 per gallon. The decrease comes after several days of small increases that briefly saw the current national average slightly exceed gas prices from a year ago, according to AAA. Moreover, the drop in gas prices comes on what is traditionally known as the […]

President Donald Trump‘s surprisingly genial meeting with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took some bite out of the GOP‘s efforts to paint the incoming leader as the latest Democratic boogeyman ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. For months, Trump denigrated Mamdani as a “communist lunatic,” while the GOP sought to make Mamdani, a socialist, the […]

President Donald Trump, long the party’s most influential kingmaker, is keeping unusually quiet in some of 2026’s biggest Republican primaries, creating power vacuums across the map as candidates, donors, and governors wait for endorsements that still haven’t come. Republicans control both chambers, but their margins are thin enough that Democrats would only need to flip […]