Snippet of Article: "...Federal retirement applications have spiked recently, with the number of applications reaching OPM in May hitting levels typically seen only around the turn of the year.
The number received in May was above 15,000, about double the number of the two prior months, likely reflecting acceptances of early retirement offers ..."
Snippet of Article: "The latest data for the 2026 COLA has been released. Here are the projections for 2026 COLAs for Social Security and the federal retirement annuity. ...The Senior Citizens League’s latest projection for the 2026 COLA is ..."
Source: www.fedsmith.comSnippet of Article: "Wednesday’s annual consumer price index figure was below the 2.5 per cent predicted by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, but above the 2.3 per cent recorded in April. ...The core measure, which strips out changes in food and energy prices, remained flat at 2.8 per cent, against expectations of a slight rise. ..."
Source: www.ft.comSnippet of Article: "...Elpidio Reyna is on the run after the FBI identified him and raided his home. The FBI is still offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to his capture. ..."
Source: www.thegatewaypundit.comSnippet of Article: "...“My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.” ...Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania ripped into his own party on Monday over anti-immigration enforcement riots in the Los Angeles area. “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration — but this is not that. This is anarchy and true chaos,” "
Source: www.dailywire.comSnippet of Article: "...An ugly night of vandalism, burglaries and clashes in downtown Los Angeles left city officials struggling to get the upper hand after three days of scattered unrest over immigration raids. Some businesses were vandalized and burglarized overnight downtown, concluding hours of unrest that saw Waymo cars burned, police cruisers crushed with rocks and electric scooters and various forms of vandalism downtown and in the civic center. ..."
Source: www.latimes.comSnippet of Article: "...California Gov. Gavin Newsom should have called out the National Guard himself to deal with the riots now ongoing around the Los Angeles area. But he didn't. And it's getting crazy, with federal law enforcement assaulted, even cars set on fire as people wave foreign flags. ...CBP vehicles that was attacked; a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent was injured in the melee. ..."
Source: redstate.comSnippet of Article: "...President Donald Trump has said he is sending the National Guard to Los Angeles to crush the ongoing anti-ICE protests, saying he will use the federal government to crush the “RIOTERS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”
“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!” Trump wrote. ..."
Snippet of Article: "... Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that abandoning uranium enrichment was "100%" against the country's interests, rejecting a central U.S. demand in talks to resolve a decades-long dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. ..."
Source: www.reuters.comSnippet of Article: "For the 52.6 million Americans currently receiving a retired-worker benefit, nothing is more important than knowing how much they'll receive monthly. ...While on the campaign trail last year, then-candidate Donald Trump announced in all-capital letters on his social media platform Truth Social, "Seniors should not pay tax on Social Security." Now-President Trump doubled down on this claim in a fairly recent town hall event, proclaiming:
In the coming weeks and months, we will pass the largest tax cuts in American history -- and that will include no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime. It's called The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.
But there's just one problem with Trump's One, Big, Beautiful Bill -- it completely breaks his Social Security promise. ..."
Snippet of Article: "A federal raid at a local restaurant in Minneapolis turned into a street fight between police and local leftists. ...It all began at Las Cuatro Milpas, where a search warrant was executed for numerous crimes, including drug running and human trafficking ...No arrests were made,” Mayor Jacob Frey posted on Facebook."
Source: townhall.comSnippet of Article: "...Chuck Grassley’s release last week of an FBI memorandum discussing the Bureau’s ability to render computerized records invisible to other agents raises huge constitutional and corruption concerns. On Monday, The Federalist analyzed the revelations from that recently declassified document, explaining that material coded “Prohibited Access” in the FBI’s Sentinel case management system will not appear in search results, meaning that users of Sentinel would not know that information relevant to their search even exists.
If Sentinel users do not know that relevant evidence exists, the DOJ cannot possibly provide exculpatory or impeachment evidence to criminal defendants or fulfill their discovery obligations in civil cases. ..."
Snippet of Article: "The family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman – the man accused of throwing incendiary devices on pro-Israeli marchers in Boulder, Colorado – has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a pending deportation. ...U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Tuesday that Soliman’s wife and five children were taken into custody. “We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack..."
Source: www.breitbart.comSnippet of Article: "...Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” – passed by House Republicans last month – has been marketed as a ‘tax cut for the middle class.’ In fact, it represents another round of handouts for the wealthy.
As the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has laid out in their recent analysis, this legislation is a brazen giveaway to the ultra-rich and multinational corporations, paid for by working people. ...Far from delivering relief to struggling households, the bill would widen the already obscene disparities in wealth and income in the US. In 2026, the top 1% of earners will receive $124 billion in tax cuts; more than the combined total going to the bottom 60% of taxpayers. On average, that’s a $70,000 windfall per millionaire. While working-class families struggle to pay rent, billionaires will now be able to pass on up to $30 million to their heirs tax-free, thanks to changes in the estate tax."
Snippet of Article: "...The city of Huntsville may start using artificial intelligence-operated cameras on garbage trucks to look for property code violations. ..."
Source: www.al.comSnippet of Article: "during the Russia collusion hoax, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team used that functionality to keep potentially relevant documents hidden from other FBI agents investigating whether a Fusion GPS contractor lied to Congress. ...The existence of the “Prohibited Access” classification came as a surprise to several former career prosecutors and FBI agents. Jay Town, a former career prosecutor and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under Trump 1.0, told The Federalist he was not aware of the “Prohibited Access” classification and shared that many of his colleagues likewise had never heard of it. “This is a staggering revelation for nearly all of us,” Town said. ..."
Source: thefederalist.comSnippet of Article: "... the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. I’m told Mohamed Sabry Soliman... firebombing people and yelling “Free Palestine” is a terrorist."
Source: redstate.comSnippet of Article: "...additional punitive measures against Harvard University that could happen as early as next month.
The administration would not comment on what it is considering, but some options include having the Department of Justice expand its investigation into the university's admissions policies or cutting money to medical institutions affiliated with Harvard, Politico reported Thursday..."
Snippet of Article: "...there are “Chinese students who are watching other students and reporting back.” And “we have students from other countries who are chanting incitement to murder like the murders we saw in Washington last week.” Metzl said, “Abby, we are in a Cold War. China is our adversary. They’re behaving like they’re our adversary. ...“[W]e are, in many ways, under attack by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea. And they’re using social media and other avenues. And they’re sending people here to try to take advantage of our openness. ..."
Source: www.breitbart.comSnippet of Article: "President Donald Trump met Thursday with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the White House and urged the central bank to lower interest rates ...Powell, the central bank said, told the president that the Fed would “set monetary policy, as required by law..."
Source: www.breitbart.comSnippet of Article: "...The Harvard Law Review is awarding a $65,000 fellowship meant to serve "the public interest" to Ibrahim Bharmal, the Harvard Law School student who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate, according to a new report. Bharmal is one of this year's recipients of the Harvard Law Review Fellowship...For Bharmal, that work will come at the Council on American-Islamic Relations's Los Angeles office, according to Stoll."
Source: freebeacon.com
Snippet of Article: "U.S. trade court blocked most of President Donald Trump's tariffs in a sweeping ruling on Wednesday...Court of International Trade said the U.S. Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries that is not overridden by the president's emergency powers to safeguard the U.S. economy. ..."
Source: www.newsmax.comSnippet of Article: "President Donald Trump said Harvard University is refusing to tell the United States government who its international students are. ...“Part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31 percent of foreigners coming to Harvard … but they refuse to tell us who the people are,” Trump told reporters on May 25. “We want a list of those foreign students and we’ll find out whether or not they’re OK. Many will be OK, I assume. And I assume with Harvard many will be bad.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says Harvard did not provide the information it requested about the university’s international students. ..."
Source: www.aljazeera.comUSPS employees can help promote semipostal stamps | Special T-shirts are available for purchase through Aug. 15 Snippet of Article: ...