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This announcement will directly affect the monthly payouts of over 65 million beneficiaries.For most aged Americans, Social Security is imperative to their financial well-being. An April survey conducted by national pollster Gallup found that 84% of non-retirees believe Social Security will represent a “major” or “minor” source of income during their golden years. Meanwhile, 89% of existing retired workers are currently leaning on their Social Security income, to some degree, to make ends meet.Given how important monthly Social Security checks are for seniors, there simply isn’t a more anticipated annual announcement than the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).What is the cost-of-living adjustment...

According to Alyssa Rosenberg, the aim of school athletics is not to teach children the art of achieving excellence but rather to build character, and what better way to build character in a teenage girl than having her experience the frustration of losing that championship title to a biological male? Her argument largely hinges on the unicorn of “sports-crazed parents” who will theoretically use transgender athletes in women’s sports as an excuse in the event their daughter loses. Rosenberg feels that high school athletic programs will enact full-blown inquisitions in which girls are forced to prove their biological gender. Citing...

Tucker takes the gloves off and highlights the disturbing world data emerging. Especially the dramatic rise in death rates amongst the young and fit. Unexplained mortality noticeable in many countries; Australia, New Zealand, Uk and Canada…Tucker Carlson Segment

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden's son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings. The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine. Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship. Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong "sucks". "When we take down something that we're not supposed to, that's the worst," Zuckerberg said in a rare extended media interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. The New York Post story was released...

Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) opposes vouchers that let children in failing public school districts attend private and charter schools. But the progressive champion, who lives in one of Pennsylvania’s worst performing school districts, sends his kids to an elite prep school. Fetterman’s kids attend the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, where parents pay up to $34,250 for a "dynamic" learning environment and an "innovative" approach to teaching. They would otherwise go to schools in Woodland Hills School District, where graduation rates are far below the state average. The local elementary school that serves Fetterman’s town of Braddock is...

VIDEOCharlie Crist is the comedy gift that keeps on giving. Here we see Crist continuing to fawn slavishly over his Beloved Biden while sanctimoniously praising himself as among the holiest of holies.

Where’s Katie?Trump-Endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake posted a video on Saturday calling her radical Leftist Democrat opponent a “coward” for ducking out of the gubernatorial debate.“It looks like my radical opponent, Katie Hobbs, is going to take a page out of Joe Biden’s playbook and campaign from her basement,” said Kari Lake in her message, slamming Hobbs and challenging her to a softball debate.We reported months before the Republican Primary Election that Lake issued a similar message to her RINO Primary opponents who were also too scared to debate Lake, saying, “grow a spine and debate me.”Nobody wants to...

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly and publicly called for the release of an FBI affidavit that formed the basis of the bureau's search of his Mar-a-Lago club and private residence. On Thursday, a federal judge granted Trump's request, ordering the release of a redacted version of the affidavit. But legal and national-security experts say the former president should be careful what he wishes for and that the document's release could land him in more hot water. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled that the Justice Department must file a redacted version of the affidavit to the public docket by noon...

Seventy-nine percent of Americans say former President Donald Trump would have won reelection in 2020 if Hunter’s laptop was known to voters, according to Wednesday’s Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics polling. Seventy-four percent of Americans believe the FBI mislead the public when it claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was “disinformation. On Thursday, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the FBI warned Facebook of an imminent “dump” of “Russian propaganda” shortly before the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” story broke, causing the story to be shared less on the platform to a “meaningful” degree. Polling shows Zuckerberg’s meaningful degree of...

Stocks fell sharply Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he will continue to raise rates to fight inflation in his Jackson Hole speech. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 407 points, or 1.22%. The S&P 500 fell 1.5% and the Nasdaq Composite slid 1.84%. Those moves come after a hawkish speech out of the Fed chair as Wall Street sought information on the pace of future interest rate hikes. "Restoring price stability will likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time. The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy," Powell said. "It was fine. It...

Vulnerable House Democrats are silent on whether they plan to accept support from Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney's new anti-Trump PAC that will support midterm candidates that are running against Trump-endorsed Republicans this fall. Following her primary defeat, Cheney converted her campaign committee into a new PAC that will target MAGA candidates and "election deniers" while working to elect their opponents up and down the ballot. The new PAC is labeled "The Great Task," in reference to her concession speech where she quoted President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Fox News Digital reached out to several of the most vulnerable House...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likely gained an even easier glide path to reelection when Democrats nominated former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, the consummate chameleon who has managed to lose elections in the state as a GOP candidate, as an independent candidate, and as a Democrat candidate, though he does hold a U.S. House seat. Barring some unforeseeable political earthquake, the question for November is about how much DeSantis will win by and what that means for 2024.

During a recent appearance on One America News, Lake brought up the multimillion-dollar racial discrimination verdict against Hobbs while discussing the fact that Hobbs has refused to debate her. Lake said: .Katie Hobbs is MIA. It’s just crazy. You should have to debate your opponent right? But she refuses to debate me. I guess I can’t blame her. She doesn’t have anything to run on. She knows that I’m going to hold her accountable for her horrific record,”“This woman is a monster. She has been twice convicted of being a racist. Two separate juries convicted Hobbs of racial discrimination costing...

Sputterings of dissatisfaction among Democratic ranks over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe out at least $10,000 in student loans has erupted into a full-blown civil war within the party, with some claiming the move is 'out of touch' with what Americans want. The shocking price tag of the forgiveness plan is now estimated to cost taxpayers up to $600 billion – even for those who did not take out federal student loans or have already paid it off. Thousands of families who saved up to pay for college educations are furious that their responsible financial planning will leave them...

E. Bryant Crutchfield, a paper-company executive who in the early 1980s brought three-ringed order to the chaos of millions of grade-school backpacks with a plastic-and-cardboard triptych he called the Trapper Keeper, died on Sunday at a hospice center in Marietta, Ga. He was 85. His son, Kenneth, said the cause was bone cancer. Few objects evoke Gen X or millennial childhood as powerfully as the Trapper Keeper, essentially a large binder for your folders. Mead, Mr. Crutchfield’s employer, introduced it nationally in 1981, and by the end of the decade the company estimated that half of all middle and high...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that his military's SU-24 warplanes had been modified to carry nuclear weapons and that Minsk would react immediately if the West caused it any problems. -snip- "They (the West) must understand that if they opt for escalation no helicopters or planes will save them," Lukashenko was quoted as saying. "Everything was ready," he said, referring to the work to modify Belarusian warplanes to carry nuclear weapons. "It's not a good idea to escalate things with Belarus because that would be an escalation with the Union State (of Russia and Belarus) which has nuclear...

Last week Tucker Carlson showcased the fact that the GOP is doing its best to lose November’s election. He showed a clip of the Mitch McConnell admitting that the GOP would likely not take the Senate. McConnell and the rest of leadership don’t want to win. Carlson rightly suggested if the GOP really wanted to win, they’d run on crime and immigration. While the economy is reportedly voter’s number one issue, in reality it’s what goes on in their neighborhoods and on their streets that matter. If Americans don’t feel safe walking down their streets or in their homes or...

Few currently disagree with the notion that Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald should be suspended for his behavior at Thursday’s joint practice with the Bengals. Players who swing helmets should always face significant punishment, regardless of whether the incident results in a serious injury. Otherwise, guys will keep swinging helmets until someone suffers a serious injury — and then the NFL will act surprised that someone was seriously injured after getting hit by a helmet.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

White House aides repeatedly refuse to address the cost of President Joe Biden’s decision on Wednesday to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt. “I can’t give you that off the top of my head,” White House director of domestic policy Susan Rice said Wednesday during the daily briefing when asked whether the administration had estimated the cost of the president’s decision. She repeated the cost of the program would not be fully known until the federal government knew how many people would take advantage of it. The president spent several months stalling a decision on canceling student debt, telling...