The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the SSA Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

Tech billionaire Elon Musk will interview former President Trump on Monday night on Musk's social platform X, marking the former president's latest effort to take the spotlight in a tight race against Vice President Harris. The "live conversation" will be "unscripted with no limits on subject matter," Musk wrote Sunday, adding it "should be highly...

An international sporting court rejected an appeal by Team USA on Monday against an Olympics decision to strip American gymnast Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal, claiming it has no way to reverse the move. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped Chiles on Saturday of the bronze medal for the women's artistic floor exercise final,...

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Fox News reporter Peter Doocy clashed with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday over Vice President Harris’s beliefs about President Biden’s border policy. Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about Harris’s commitment to hiring more border agents, concluding that the vice president must disagree with Biden’s approach to the southern border. “How long have you guys...

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Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story America’s childless trend More and more Americans are not having children, with this trend showing no signs of stopping. And while many say it’s a deliberate choice, experts say outside circumstances are a bigger reason. © AP Since...

The FBI confirmed Monday it was launching an investigation after the Trump campaign said it was hacked and some of its internal documents were leaked. “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter,” the agency said in an email, declining to respond to other questions from The Hill. A Friday report from Microsoft pinned...

A senior investigator has resigned from the Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee probe into the Biden administration’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, accusing the panel of holding back its full power in examining the failures of the U.S. pullout. Jerry Dunleavy, a former journalist and author of a book detailing first-person...

Vice President Kamala Harris once pledged to close all immigration detention centers "on day one" during his first presidential campaign, as her record on the southern border continues to generate heavy criticism.