The first round of July Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in seven days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, July 8. The second round will go out on July 15 to those born between […]

Despite demonstrating its dominance as the military power in the Middle East and weakening its adversaries, Israel finds itself more globally isolated about 1,000 days after Hamas’s attack, compared to where it was on Oct. 6, 2023. Israel’s reaction to Hamas’s attack, in which roughly 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 others were taken hostage […]

The next culture war battle over transgender athletes will be fought at the ballot box this fall after the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states could restrict access to sports by biological sex. Voters in as many as five states are slated to weigh ballot measures in November that, if passed, would block biological males […]

Republican Party campaign committees are gearing up to pump tens of millions of dollars into campaigns across the country as they try to protect narrow House and Senate majorities. Thanks to the Supreme Court, they can now coordinate with candidates on all of it. The Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision nixing limits on coordinated spending between […]