WASHINGTON, April 28, 2026 — The COLA Math That Nobody Explains to Retirees Every October, the Social Security Administration announces the following year’s cost-of-living adjustment with a headline percentage. Every November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces the…
HOUSTON / WASHINGTON, April 28, 2026 — A federal judge in Texas ordered the release of Hayam El Gamal and her five children from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention last Thursday, finding the government had failed to meet its legal…
NEW YORK, April 27, 2026 — Why This Week Is the Most Important of 2026 In a normal earnings week, five major companies reporting in three days would be significant. This is not a normal earnings week. Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta,…
WASHINGTON / MOSCOW, April 27, 2026 — Iran has submitted a new peace proposal through Pakistani mediators that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with the United States — but explicitly sets aside all discussion of…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 27, 2026 — There is no diplomatic relationship in the world that carries more historical weight, more institutional memory, and more current-day complexity than the one between the United States and the United Kingdom. The arrival of King…
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 — What Medicaid Work Requirements Actually Require The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025, introduced work requirements for adults in the ACA Medicaid expansion group — specifically, adults without dependent…
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 — Investigators combing through the communications of Cole Tomas Allen — the 31-year-old Caltech engineer who charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night — found a message in which he clearly…
ZURICH / WASHINGTON, April 26, 2026 — What Ace Actually Is Ace is not a humanoid robot. It does not have legs or a face. It does not walk to the table and shake hands with its opponents. It is…
WASHINGTON / TORRANCE, April 26, 2026 — The Night It Happened At 8:36 PM on Saturday, April 25, the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was underway in the main ballroom of the Washington Hilton. President Trump — attending the…
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2026 — What the Atlanta Fed Is Seeing — and Why It Matters The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta operates a real-time GDP tracking model called GDPNow. It does not speculate or editorialize. It takes the available…
WASHINGTON / ISLAMABAD, April 26, 2026 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew out of Islamabad Saturday morning after spending less than 24 hours in Pakistan meeting exclusively with Pakistani officials — never sitting across a table from any American.…
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2026 — What Pushed Rates Below 6% — and Whether It Lasts Mortgage rates do not move in lockstep with the Federal Reserve’s benchmark rate. They track the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — and…