Passengers have begun evacuating the MV Hondius cruise ship that was hit by a rare hantavirus outbreak, boarding planes after the ship is docked in Spain’s Canary Islands. The Dutch cruise ship, carrying about 150 people from 23 different nations, landed in the Spanish island of Tenerife on Sunday morning to begin disembarking its passengers […]

The June 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 22 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, aged 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) could be the speaker next year, holding the keys to whether President Donald Trump’s final two years are productive or consumed by impeachment and government shutdown fights.  But the duo’s fraught relationship points to the latter. On Thursday, Trump implied Jeffries bore responsibility for the April 25 attempt on […]

A fight for influence between France, Russia, and the United States in the central Sahel has fomented disaster in the region, after an al Qaeda affiliate filled the vacuum opened by the competition. As a former colony of the French Empire, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have traditionally fallen in France’s orbit. Paris intervened in […]