Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year's projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, which is unchanged from last year's estimate.
President Trump has made a habit of showing up to marquee sporting events in his second term -- and a pattern has emerged that fans and critics have taken to calling the "Trump curse": The teams he roots for keep losing.
Vice President J.D. Vance said he is referring Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department for a criminal fraud investigation involving federal dollars sent to social service programs.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama's nitrogen gas execution method likely inflicts a cruel and constitutionally impermissible degree of suffering on condemned inmates -- but stopped short of blocking a scheduled execution set for Thursday.
Spencer Pratt’s campaign in Los Angeles was run about as well as a non-Democratic campaign could be run in a major American city. The fact that he lost is proof that you simply cannot save voters who don’t want to be saved. Pratt’s campaign has come to an end, as a late surge in ballots for City […]
On June 2, the New York State Legislature passed bill A8382A/S9316 and sent it to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY). The legislation systematically removes the words “mother” and “father” from New York’s Family Court Act, domestic relations law, child support statutes, and education law. It replaces them with the clinical terms “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” […]
June 1 marked the start of new eligibility requirements for Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The working families tax cuts strengthened the long-term viability of SNAP by requiring able-bodied adults to meet modest work requirements to retain their benefits — with clear exemptions for vulnerable populations. These commonsense reforms protect taxpayer dollars […]
During its first year in office, the Trump administration made dramatic strides to address the supply side of illegal immigration by securing our borders, detaining those who were apprehended, and halting the abuse of our asylum system. To build on that success, we must also prioritize dramatically reducing the number of people living in the […]
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) on Tuesday said Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner should win his primary on Tuesday and then get off the ballot so that Democrats can replace him with a sronger candidate in the fall. Platner is expected to win Tuesday's Democratic primary for Senate. He would then face Sen. Susan Collins...
Alaska’s top election official is investigating a GOP Senate candidate who shares the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), citing “credible allegations” that he entered the race to confuse voters. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R), who oversees elections in Alaska, said Monday that her office is investigating Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. — who...
