The maximum monthly Social Security benefit retirees can collect this year is $5,181. Social Security takes your 35 highest-paid years of income into account when calculating your retirement benefit. If you’re only a moderate earner, you may not qualify for Social Security’s maximum benefit in retirement.
White House officials responded in court documents to a lawsuit filed Monday by CNN, MS NOW and Politico. White House: Access ‘Is a Privilege — Not a Right’ Department of Justice is pushing for a broad expansion of the president's ability to determine which reporters and outlets can access the White House.
EU lifts sanctions on Russian oligarchs Usmanov, Fridman. Move condemned by Ukraine as "shameful" Kremlin says EU should lift sanctions on "all Russian businessmen" USmanov and Frid man were added to sanctions list after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 over allegations that their businesses provided significant revenues to the Kremlin.
Trump-Xi meeting comes amid tensions on Iran, Taiwan and trade. Xi warned Trump that if the issue of Taiwan is handled "improperly," the two nations could "come into conflict," China's official state broadcaster Xinhua reported. Xi is likely to push Trump to press pause on a proposed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said flights from Tehran to Baghdad and Muscat, Oman, were canceled from Wednesday. Azerbaijan has also suspended Iranian flights, citing the new U.S. sanctions. Iraq ordered the suspension of Iranian flights to Baghdad International Airport from Wednesday, according to Reuters. Georgia has banned flights operated by Iranian airlines.
Trump Administration Cites National Security — and Bad ‘Vibes’ — to Justify Press Ban. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were banned from the White House. President Donald Trump's Justice Department allegedly cited a Politico story about bad "vibes" at the Republican Midterm Convention.
Rural Americans skew Republican and historically have been an instrumental group of voters for Trump. Only 45% of rural Republican voters say Trump has made their local economies better off. Many rural voters don’t think the major parties or the president respect people like them. The findings suggest that many rural voters haven't turned on Trump but that they also largely don't think he has delivered the economic renaissance he promised.
Gulf leaders meet Trump with two fears: more war and less US protection. Gulf states have broadly signaled their preference for de-escalation and diplomacy with Iran. For Gulf governments, even discussing a US military drawdown while attacks spread across the region risks handing Iran a victory and leaving them more exposed.
The intervention shows how Iran has built the Houthis into a major regional partner. The Houthis had not conducted a major campaign along the coast since 2017. The gains have cemented the hold of Iran and its regional allies over two key waterways. The straits of Bab al-Mandab and Hormuz are major shipping arteries for global flows.
Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks. Two leading progressive US lawmakers, senator Bernie Sanders and representative Greg Casar, were due to unveil legislation later today. It would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI.
Grassley: Nixon "did it for the consumers of America, when he put embargoes on soybeans" Rogers: War in Iran needs to end to bring costs down. Diesel averaged a record $6.53 a gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA, up from $3.69 a year earlier.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said flights from Tehran to Baghdad and Muscat, Oman, were canceled from Wednesday. Azerbaijan has also suspended Iranian flights, citing the new U.S. sanctions. Iraq ordered the suspension of Iranian flights to Baghdad International Airport from Wednesday, according to the Reuters news agency.
Data centers have become a political flashpoint because their impacts are intensely local. "If data centers prove decisive in several races, elected officials in both parties will take notice," says PR firm JSA. Trump says the only reason to oppose data centers is if communities want to be "backwards and poor"
British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting. The province is seeking damages to cover costs it has incurred and will incur in recovering from the attack. OpenAI's own safety team flagged the shooter's account and recommended contacting police, only to be overruled by company leadership.
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to personally greet Xi Jinping when the Chinese leader alights his plane at Joint Base Andrews. Trump's planned greeting would amount to a significant gesture of respect for Beijing. This week's meeting could well set the tone for November’s meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Shenzhen, China.
President Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met on Tuesday, shortly after threatening in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal isn't reached soon. The Iranian delegation is expected in New York City on Wednesday, though it's not yet clear whether Mr. Trump will attend.
‘Gas station drug’ found at locations where two Ole Miss students were discovered dead. Packaged kratom was found during the separate death investigations. Authorities have not confirmed whether it or any other substance was a contributing factor in the deaths.Kratom has gained popularity as an unapproved treatment for pain.
Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades. It is expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a major hurricane. Another Pacific system, Odalys, strengthened Wednesday from a tropical storm to a hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami has called Polo an “extremely dangerous” storm.
"What I did or didn't do only God and I know," says Mohamed Ibrahim Saadiq Abdulla. "There cannot be one religion coming like this and leading up to killing and destroying other people," he says. Another nine men were freed after being acquitted of similar charges in the same trial.
The pair met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. They discussed trade, energy and immigration among other topics. The meeting was the first time the pair had met in person since the 2008 US election. The president said he and the PM had "established a good connection"
Fain’s appeal to IG Metall is a measure of the crisis confronting the union bureaucracy. The UAW and IG Metall formed an alliance in 2015 with the explicit aim of expanding ‘co-determination’ between management and employees. It advanced a fighting program that called for the defense of every job, the breaking of the control of the union apparatus.
The FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor. After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died. The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has urged the United States to ease sanctions on North Korea. Lee urged a resumption of U.S.-North Korea talks and said "the most critical task" was to formally end the Korean War and establish a lasting peace regime. South Korean officials have said that they are moving away from a "denuclearization first" policy.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said flights from Tehran to Baghdad and Muscat, Oman, were canceled from Wednesday. Azerbaijan has also suspended Iranian flights, citing the new U.S. sanctions. Iraq ordered the suspension of Iranian flights to Baghdad International Airport from Wednesday, according to Reuters. Georgia has banned flights operated by Iranian airlines.