President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) as secretary of Homeland Security.  Noem has been governor of South Dakota since 2019, the first woman to serve as governor in the state’s history. She won reelection in 2022 and began her second term in January 2023. She was elected to South Dakota’s […]

President-elect Donald Trump will waste no time working to undo the efforts of his predecessor, President Joe Biden, when he retakes office next January. Much of what Trump is expected to do will simply be undoing what Biden did to him upon winning the White House four years ago. Biden was very aggressive in January […]

The Democrats’ overperformance in the midterm elections two years ago looks like a pyrrhic victory after President-elect Donald Trump’s win last week, likely giving Republicans unified control of the federal government.  In some ways, the midterm elections might have been the worst of all possible worlds for Democrats: They came away believing they needed no major […]

The first round of November’s Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, will go out to the first group of retirees tomorrow. Here is all you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments, which go out in three rounds. What is it? In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the […]