ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON, April 25, 2026 — Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner departed Saturday morning for Islamabad, Pakistan, where the White House says they will hold direct talks with Iranian negotiators — even as Iran’s Foreign Ministry posted publicly that…
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2026 — Why Are Medicare Advantage Plans Cutting Benefits Right Now? Medicare Advantage — the private-insurance alternative to original Medicare that now covers more than 34 million Americans, or 54% of all Medicare-eligible adults — spent the…
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — Is Social Security Actually Going Bankrupt? The short answer is no — but the longer answer is more uncomfortable than the reassurance suggests. Social Security will not go bankrupt. Payroll taxes continue flowing into the…
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2026 — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog announced Thursday it is launching a formal audit of whether the department fully complied with the law requiring the release of millions of pages of investigative records tied to sex…
PITTSBURGH, April 24, 2026 — The Top Pick Nobody Argued With Fernando Mendoza walked to the podium in Pittsburgh on Thursday night as the consensus No. 1 player in this draft class and the clearest quarterback prospect to enter the…
NEW YORK, April 24, 2026 — A Market That Hit a Record High and Still Finished in the Red Thursday’s session was a study in contradiction. The S&P 500 notched a new all-time intraday high in morning trading, then reversed…
WASHINGTON / TEHRAN, April 24, 2026 — Iran has begun collecting tolls from commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, officials in Tehran confirmed Thursday, in a move that analysts say could generate up to $20 million a day in…
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — What Does Medicare Currently Cover — and What Gap Does This Bill Target? Medicare covers hospital stays, surgery, physician visits, outpatient procedures, lab work, and durable medical equipment. What it has never covered is food.…
MENLO PARK, April 24, 2026 — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, confirmed Thursday it will lay off approximately 8,000 employees — 10 percent of its global workforce — beginning May 20, while simultaneously closing 6,000 open…
LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2026 — What Google Announced at Cloud Next 2026 Google’s annual cloud conference, held this week in Las Vegas, was not a product reveal. It was a declaration of intent. Two days of announcements stacked from…
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — How the Strait of Hormuz Became Every American’s Problem Americans do not live near the Persian Gulf. But their wallets do. The closure — and now the controlled, contested partial reopening — of the Strait…
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — A second round of direct U.S.-Iran negotiations — which could determine whether the fragile Middle East ceasefire holds or collapses — remains in a state of suspension Thursday, with Vice President JD Vance’s…