President Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the government’s highest civilian honor — to conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, over a month after he was fatally shot on a Utah college campus. During a ceremony in the White House’s Rose Garden on what would have been
The Social Security Administration’s annual announcement setting next year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be delayed because of the government shutdown, the agency said. Each year, the Social Security Administration adjusts benefits for its 75 million recipients based on recent inflation data, which ensures that seniors, disabled Americans and other beneficiaries don’t lose purchasing power as
Multiple airports across the country are denying a request from the Department of Homeland Security to play a video that blames Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. The shutdown began on Oct. 1 with Democrats and Republicans in a stalemate over how to reopen the government. Democrats have demanded an extension of expiring health insurance
Washington — More than a decade after the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, and just two years after it declined to unravel another piece of the law, the Supreme Court will convene on Wednesday to hear a legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional map that could reverberate throughout the nation.
Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. struck another small boat that he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off the coast of Venezuela. The president said in a post on Truth Social that six people aboard the vessel were killed in the strike and no U.S. forces were harmed. It’s the
Naomi Pyle isn’t sure if her husband’s next paycheck from the U.S. Navy will arrive on Wednesday. The couple, who are raising two children in San Diego, California, were already struggling to make ends meet before the government shutdown on October 1, Pyle, 30, told CBS News, adding that the family won’t be able to
37m ago Johnson says “I don’t have anything to negotiate” as he refuses to bring House back House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaks during a House Republican news conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14, 2025. Bill Clark House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican,