(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Fresh projections from the Congressional Budget Office show the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund would be exhausted by 2033 if benefits are paid as scheduled.
In January, Social Security beneficiaries got an 8.7% increase in monthly checks, the largest cost-of-living adjustment since 1981. The increase...
(Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said this week that he would not rule out challenging President Joe Biden for the White House in 2024.
Asked during an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd about his political future, Manchin said he’s not sure what he wants to do either way. He...
(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents stationed out of Jacksonville, Florida, and Corpus Christi, Texas, confiscated a record 20 tons of narcotics and other drugs in two months.
CBP said AMO agents from the Florida and Texas bases seized nearly 37,887 pounds...
(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) A U.S. government report released Monday estimates that there could have been more than $60 billion in unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic.
The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office says that figure is an estimate spread over the entire unemployment system and should be...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent interview with PBS's Firing Line, professional race-hustler Al Sharpton defended the Tawana Brawley hoax, which he used to launch his fraudulent career.
The case dates back to 1987, when Sharpton, a little-known community activist in New York, claimed that Brawley, a then-15-year-old black...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former FBI official Charles McGonigal, who was involved in the U.S. government’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia, has been charged with secretly working for a Russian oligarch.
McGonigal, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Farewell, Hell's Angel's. Hello, Heck's Snowflakes.
The CEO of Harley--Davidson said the company plans to go full electric in the foreseable future, according to a recent interview with British design magazine Dezeen.
"At some point in time, Harley Davidson will be all-electric," said Jochen Zeit, the German-born...
(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state Democrats for downplaying crime as the reason their party lost so many congressional seats in the state during the midterm elections.
During an interview with the New York Times, Pelosi admitted that crime was...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) TikTok is now banned on the University of Texas at Austin's WiFi network as Republican Gov. Greg Abbot's ban on the app goes into effect.
The executive order, issued in December 2022, cited cybersecurity risks posed by the Chinese-owned app for the ban, reported Big League Politics.
Adviser...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michigan Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer disclosed Monday that he knows the state’s Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, from when the two were both state legislators, but he said the prior relationship won’t affect his ability to preside over the trial of five men accused of playing a...
(Headline USA) The son of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., was arrested over the weekend for assaulting a police officer during a violent riot in Boston, Massachusetts.
On Saturday night, Jared “Riley” Dowell, 23, was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction, or injury of personal...
(Headline USA) A Yuma official said this week that the Arizona city is on the brink of collapse due to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told Fox News on Monday that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the city has overloaded its system and...