Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has withdrawn from the next City of Angels mayoral candidate forum just days after the last debate in which she took heat from opponent Spencer Pratt. The hosts of the forum, the League of Women Voters and the Pat Brown Institute for PublicAffairs, announced her withdrawal from the event, scheduled […]

Virginia Democrats made a hasty appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to overturn the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down the redistricting referendum but were mocked for numerous spelling mistakes that appeared in court documents. “First, if you are going to appeal to SCOTUS maybe don’t misspell Virginia????” former Republican Attorney General […]

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 […]