The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for next year will be the largest since 2023. Retirees will see the extra money in their benefit checks starting in January.A Social Security Administration office in Jamaica, Queens.
Plus, the antique apples making a comeback.Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.Firefighters at the site of a strike at an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.
For years, Ukraine’s armed forces have relied on satellite communication services developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Recent restrictions have hampered its war effort.A Starlink dish camouflaged near the Eastern frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in the summer of 2023.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had received “no early warning from our partners” about Russian attacks. President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”Britain’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, left, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Pryluky, Ukraine, last week.
The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.Senator Susan Collins of Maine has cultivated a reputation as an independent-minded Republican who delivers for her state. As she
Xavier Becerra is a heavy favorite to become California’s first Latino governor in the modern era, though he does not talk much about the milestone.Xavier Becerra attends a “NO on Prop 39’ event, in opposition to a voter identification ballot initiative, at in Los Angeles earlier in October.
For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome ahead of his surgery on Tuesday. The cancer diagnosis changes the outlook for a pope whose relative youth su
Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer on Tuesday. The Vatican said that his postoperative tests showed normal results.Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome on Tuesday.
In an interview with The New York Times, Michael Kotlikoff addressed his administration’s handling of sexual assault accusations brought by a former student.Michael Kotlikoff moved from his interim role to a permanent position as president of Cornell in October 2025.
Michael Kotlikoff addressed concerns over the university’s handling of a former student’s claims that she was gang-raped at a fraternity party.Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell University’s president, was often remorseful and contrite during a 90-minute interview.
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Gu
President Trump tapped his political appointees to determine whether he could oust Lisa Cook, a Fed governor he had already tried to oust.A committee formed by President Trump will decide the fate of a Federal Reserve official he has already tried to fire.
The strike was the Iran-backed militia’s most lethal against Saudi Arabia, by far, during their long conflict.Mourners carrying the body of Mahmoud Barqawi, 33, at his funeral in Amman, Jordan, on Monday. He was killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Satu
Billionaires feel like they “have become piñatas for politicians.” Instead of taking a hit, they’re swinging back.
Living longer and healthier is important. But don’t believe everything you hear.
For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of th
Lansing’s police chief says the string of attacks along a greenway raises the possibility that a serial killer has been at work. A man is under arrest in one of the deaths.Police investigators hunted for evidence near the scene of a fatal stabbing in August.
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
We look at the state of the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.In Moscow last month.
On Tuesday, she announced the news of her U.S. citizenship on social media with a video and a photo of herself at the ceremony.Joni Mitchell in Hamilton, Ontario, early this year, where she won a lifetime achievement award at the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys.
