ABC News published a report tying defense firms backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to more than $6 billion in government contracts, then quietly deleted it — no correction, no editor's note, no comment.
An ICE officer shot a Dominican national in the Bronx with a 5-year-old in the car, and New York's mayor says two hours of calls with President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin failed to win the man's release.
Trump announced after a phone call with Vladimir Putin that Russia will send escalating volumes of diesel to the American and global market, and Treasury moved the same day to waive some energy sanctions. No contract, buyer or price has been identified.
Hurricane Isaias closed on the northern Gulf Coast with 110 mph winds and a forecast surge of six to nine feet, while Florida staged fuel, generators and meals and seven counties ordered evacuations.
Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed traded blows over Hamas, Iran and each other's out-of-state property in a televised Michigan Senate debate, and President Trump weighed in on Truth Social hours later.
A federal immigration officer shot and wounded a man during a targeted arrest at the Bronx-Manhattan line Thursday afternoon. DHS says the target was a convicted criminal with gang ties; Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired on a car with a 5-year-old inside.
Asked repeatedly whether Iran or Israel is the bigger threat to the United States, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed refused to answer and called the question ridiculous. Mike Rogers made sure voters heard it.
Jared Kushner skipped the letters-to-the-editor route and posted a 14-section rebuttal to The New Yorker on his own website, insisting his investment firm has raised "zero" new money while he works Middle East diplomacy for free.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public, and a Pentagon official says it will be livestreamed. Stars and Stripes reports it would be the first U.S. military execution in 65 years.
Vice President JD Vance and the Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services giants from the PERM green card program, and opened fraud investigations into nine universities over J-1 visas.
The White House says nearly 70 million American children now have government-created investment accounts after automatic enrollment wrapped up Oct. 1. A parent or guardian still has to formally claim the account, and the AP notes only newborns are funded.
Roughly three minutes of Newport News police body-camera video from the January 2023 Richneck Elementary shooting has been unsealed, showing the 6-year-old who shot his teacher cursing at officers moments after the gun was found on the classroom floor.
Eva Marie Saint, who won an Academy Award for her first film role in "On the Waterfront" and starred opposite Cary Grant in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest," has died at her Los Angeles home at age 102.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 25 Panhandle and Big Bend counties while the system was still Tropical Depression Nine. By Wednesday morning it was Tropical Storm Isaias, with forecasters expecting it to strengthen as it nears the Gulf Coast.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the third anniversary of the Hamas attack to accuse Israel's government of an "ongoing genocide," drawing rebukes from the ADL, the New York Board of Rabbis and Israel's consul general in New York.
Supplemental Security Income, SSI, is a separate federal payment for people 65 and older with very little income and savings, and you can get it on top of Social Security. In 2026 the maximum is $994 a month, and Social Security ignores the first $20 of your check, so anyone whose only income is a Social Security benefit under about $1,014 may be owed something, plus a state supplement in many states. The savings limit is strict, $2,000, but your home and one car do not count. And in most states
If your monthly income is under about $1,816 single or $2,455 for a couple, a Medicare Savings Program run by your state may pay your $202.90 Part B premium, worth more than $2,400 a year, and the lowest tier also pays Medicare's deductibles and copays. Joining one also enrolls you in Extra Help, which caps covered prescriptions at $12.65 each. About a dozen states and D.C. no longer count your savings at all, and several set higher income limits than the federal ones. Here are the 2026 numbers,
