Every story, newest first.
The State Department has pulled more than 250,000 visas since Trump took office, Fox News reports, most after run-ins with police. Next in line are tourist visas held by people who later filed for asylum.
Nearly a million people in 30 states who bought HealthCare.gov plans without a subsidy are getting $500 each, paid from surplus exchange fees. It is real money, and it is small next to what they pay in premiums.
The final U.S. forces flew out of Irbil on the deadline set in 2024, ending a 12-year mission against ISIS. Trump called it a victory. The Kurdish government says it was left without air defenses.
Trump says South Korea will put $200 billion into American energy projects, led by eight nuclear reactors. The Alaska gas line in the package still depends on conditions Seoul has not waived.
Fox News reports the Justice Department is looking at Texas Majority PAC after an organizer was recorded describing paid voter classes as a roundabout way of paying for votes. The group says he got it wrong and fired him.
The Pentagon's new Project Meridian asks three outsiders to imagine the weapons America's grandchildren will need. Two of them run companies that sell to the Pentagon, and the rules for that have not been spelled out.
Core inflation came in at 3.0% for August, lighter than Wall Street expected. The all-items number families actually live with was 3.4%, and consumers spent far faster than they earned.
A federal judge in Oklahoma blocked the state from rejecting a Jewish charter school for being religious. The ruling does not approve the school, but it sets up a likely Supreme Court sequel.
First-time unemployment claims slipped to 197,000, one of the lowest readings in decades, even as energy costs squeeze employers. The next jobs report will say whether hiring is slowing underneath.
The energy shock since February has not hit every furnace the same way. The Energy Information Administration's September forecast puts heating oil about 35% above last winter, while natural gas and propane prices are flat to slightly lower and electricity keeps creeping up. The National Energy Assistance Directors Association expects the average heating bill to rise 8.7% to $1,030. Here is what that means for your home by fuel, and four ways to cut the bill: heating assistance (LIHEAP), free we
The Senior Citizens League's 2026 survey found 44% of respondents over 62 living on $1,001 to $2,000 a month and another 10% on less than $1,000, and estimates that benefits lost 13.7% of their buying power between 2016 and 2026. Part of the reason is the index: the COLA follows prices paid by urban wage earners, not by people over 62, whose money goes to rent and health care. Here is what the survey found, what the proposed fixes would cost, and four programs, paid for by the same taxes you wor
Your property tax is the one big bill in retirement that rises whether or not your income does, and nearly every state has a program to hold it down for homeowners over 65. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy counts 167 of them. They come in four shapes — an exemption off the assessed value, a credit that comes back as money, a freeze that locks the bill at the year you qualified, and a deferral that postpones it until the house is sold — and almost all of them require you to apply once, which
