WASHINGTON, June 6, 2026 — The Social Security Administration pays retirement benefits to more than 68 million Americans. A significant portion of those Americans — spouses, divorced spouses, widows, and widowers — are receiving benefits not on their own earnings…
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2026 — Two events of consequence arrived almost simultaneously on Thursday evening: the United States Senate passed a $170 billion immigration and Homeland Security enforcement package on a party-line vote, and the Pentagon announced that American forces…
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2026 — More than 200 million Americans have a FICO score. Most of them know their score is important. Almost none of them know the specific weights assigned to the five factors that determine it, the precise…
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The fund that split the Republican Senate caucus, delayed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, sparked a bipartisan revolt, and produced a federal lawsuit from two Capitol police officers who said it would…
KUWAIT CITY, June 4, 2026 — Iranian drones and missiles struck the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, killing one person, wounding 63 others including travelers and airport workers, and setting sections of the terminal ablaze — the…
DES MOINES, June 4, 2026 — Six states held primary elections Tuesday, and the race that emerged from Iowa is the one that could define Senate control in November. Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson defeated former state Senator Jim Carlin for…
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2026 — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday evening reclassifying approximately 8,000 of the most senior career civil servants in the federal government into a new employment category called Schedule Policy/Career — making them fireable…
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — Iran suspended all communications with the United States through mediators on Monday, halting the ceasefire negotiations that had been the only path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending a war now in its…
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — The mortgage denial that blindsides most applicants is not the credit score problem they worried about or the down payment shortfall they expected. It is the debt-to-income ratio — a calculation so straightforward that most…
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The American labor market has been the stubborn holdout in an economy that has deteriorated across nearly every other measure. Consumer sentiment is at an all-time record low. Real wages fell year-over-year in…
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — Three months after American and Israeli forces struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, ninety-four days after the Strait of Hormuz closed to commercial shipping, and fifty-five days after Pakistan arranged a conditional two-week ceasefire that has been…
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Two of the most consequential economic policy changes in a generation are happening at the same time, to the same Americans, in the same households. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act restructured the…