Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, 81, was hospitalized after undergoing a minor procedure to remove fluid that was pressing on her lung, her office said on Tuesday.
Law enforcement officers shot at a truck outside of a U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., late Thursday night, as protests over the Trump administration's immigration agenda rage on. The incident followed a days-long demonstration near the base, which is expected to be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). The Coast Guard...
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will rise 2.8 percent in 2026 after the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), the federal government announced Friday. The Social Security Administration announced the 2026 COLA as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the September consumer price index (CPI) report. The CPI report, which tracks inflation, had...
Club for Growth President David McIntosh said the powerful free-market PAC is undecided on whether it will support Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as he faces a Trump-backed challenger — despite its previous strong support for the incumbent. "I don't really understand what Thomas has been doing recently, you know, siding with the Democrats all the...
President Trump defended his decision to call off trade negotiations with Canada on Friday, accusing the U.S.'s northern neighbor of attempting to "illegally influence" a pending Supreme Court case over tariffs. "CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!" Trump posted to Truth Social. "They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs,...
Annual inflation rose to 3 percent in September as a jump in gasoline and energy prices pushed price growth to its highest level since January. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3 percent last month and 3 percent over the 12-month span ending in September, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor...
The Professional Staff Congress — the City University of New York’s professors’ union — was recently exposed for illegally using government email accounts to electioneer for socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D). This is not just a violation of the law but also a symptom of the systemic corruption of our colleges and universities with leftist...
President Trump on Friday will travel to Asia for his first visit to the region since returning to the White House. The visit comes as the government shutdown hits Day 24 with no end in sight. Trump departs for Malaysia later this evening to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) before visiting Japan...
Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley on Thursday called out the NBA in connection to a probe into illegal sports betting that led to the arrests of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups. Barkley clashed with fellow commentator Kenny Smith during an "Inside the NBA" panel on ESPN, after the latter suggested...
The government shutdown will end soon. How do I know? Because whatever political advantage Democrats had a few weeks ago by “standing strong!” and “confronting Trump!” is quickly evaporating.
Every few weeks, another video circulates from the Caribbean: a plume of smoke over turquoise water, a small boat breaking apart under U.S. fire. Washington now bombs narco-vessels — eight of them, as of this writing — claiming decisive victories in a televised war on drugs. Yet every detonation hides a deeper failure. The cocaine...
Alaska Airlines issued a temporary ground stoppage Thursday evening amid an IT outage. The airline announced the stoppage at 7:34 p.m. EDT on the social platform X, instructing travelers to check their flight status before heading to the airport. At 10 p.m., the airline said on X that it is “actively restoring our operations” following...
President Trump said Thursday he was cutting off trade negotiations with Canada, citing an ad campaign that used former President Ronald Reagan’s warnings about the long-term risks of tariffs amid the trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. Trump in a post on Truth Social accused Canada of using the ad to “interfere” with a pending Supreme...
