The June 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 15 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, age 65 or older, or have a qualifying disability. For example, individual filers can […]

EXCLUSIVE — Bishop Robert Barron believes that for “free exercise of religion” to thrive, the United States must continuously affirm and bolster its explicitly Christian identity. Barron, the prelate of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, is delivering an address at President Donald Trump’s Rededicate 250 event on Sunday. The event, hosted on the National Mall, is […]

This Oregon gubernatorial candidate may not be anywhere near the lead, but it sure is putting up a graphite. A pencil is asking Oregonians for their votes in the state’s 2026 race for governor. Campaigning as a write-in candidate, the utensil is asking people to write “Pencil” on their ballots as a way to make […]

America’s fentanyl epidemic has become “even more unpredictable and lethal” as illegal drug producers shift to combining the highly addictive substance with synthetic opioids and sedatives, according to the U.S. government at the forefront of the 21st-century war on drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an alert in mid-May of a new trend in how […]