The second round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on June 17. The first round went out on June 10 to those born on or before […]

Discharge petitions, once a rare tool to seize control of the House floor, are increasingly plaguing Republican leaders and giving Democrats outsize sway despite being the minority. The legislative procedure, used successfully as recently as this past week, bypasses the committee process and forces legislation directly to a floor vote if a simple majority signs […]

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) did everything right. The four-term lawmaker voted with President Donald Trump. He kept his head down when it counted, bit his tongue when Trump said time had “passed him by,” and quietly accepted the indignity of watching Senate leadership beg a sitting president to endorse an incumbent of their own party. […]

A Biden-appointed judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstall scrapped exhibits about slavery and climate change that had been removed from parks and monuments across the country. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley issued a preliminary injunction upon the request of a group arguing the Interior Department has been carrying out a “sustained campaign to erase […]