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,
Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the US Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images The Social Security Administration said Tuesday that it will release its cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for next year’s payments and confirmed the ongoing government shutdown won’t impact payments being sent
Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address in Augusta, Maine, on Jan. 30, 2024. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Oct. 14 officially launched a U.S. Senate bid against Republican Susan Collins in next November’s elections. Mills’s campaign had briefly posted, then deleted, a fundraising video and an
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during an event for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Oct. 13, 2025. Olga Fedorova/AP Photo New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Oct. 13, marking her first public appearance after being indicted
Cory Bowman, Cincinnati mayoral candidate, at his coffee shop in Cincinnati on April 25, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times CINCINNATI, Ohio—Cincinnati is a deep blue city where a Republican has not sat in the mayor’s seat since the late 1970s, and the city council is solely composed of Democrats. Cory Bowman, who is Vice President
The first woman to be elected governor of Maine is set to try and accomplish what no candidate in her state has managed in more than 30 years: to defeat Republican Susan Collins. But to even have the chance to do so, Democrat Janet Mills will first have to make it through what is already