WASHINGTON, May 6, 2026 — What Medicare Part A Actually Covers — and What It Doesn’t Pay Most Americans reaching Medicare eligibility understand that Part A covers hospital care. Few understand the precise structure of what they will pay when…
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2026 — Twenty-four hours after launching Project Freedom — the U.S. military operation to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz — President Trump announced Tuesday evening that he was pausing the operation to give Iran…
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, May 5, 2026 — The Path to $5 Gasoline — and Who It Would Hurt Tom Kloza, an independent oil analyst and adviser to Gulf Oil with three decades of market experience, told CNN Monday that…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 5, 2026 — The second day of Project Freedom — the U.S. military operation to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz — has produced the most violent 24-hour period of the Iran…
WASHINGTON, May 5, 2026 — What the Earnings Test Actually Does — and Why It Exists The Social Security retirement earnings test is one of the most misunderstood provisions in the entire program. Most Americans know they can claim Social…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 5, 2026 — The first direct military exchange between U.S. and Iranian forces since Trump’s ceasefire declaration occurred Monday in the Strait of Hormuz, as American naval vessels escorting commercial ships under “Project Freedom”…
NEW YORK, May 4, 2026 — Fashion’s biggest night of the year is happening tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and the story is not the outfits. It is the empty seats where some of the most prominent…
OAKLAND, May 4, 2026 — The Case in One Paragraph Elon Musk helped found OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to developing artificial intelligence safely for the benefit of humanity. He donated approximately $38 million. He left the board…
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, May 4, 2026 — Why This Jobs Report Is Different From Every Other This Year The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the April nonfarm payrolls report at 8:30 AM Eastern on Friday. Every month, that release…
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2026 — President Trump announced Sunday that the United States will begin helping stranded commercial vessels navigate through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning — a statement that has sent shipping companies, insurance underwriters, and oil…
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2026 — Why Your Premium Jumped — the Two Forces Hitting at Once The 2026 premium surge is not one problem. It is two separate problems landing simultaneously, compounding each other in ways that are particularly painful…
WASHINGTON / MUSCAT, May 4, 2026 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a direct telephone conversation Sunday — the first direct diplomatic contact between a U.S. Secretary of State and an Iranian Foreign…