Second round of June Social Security payments goes out in three days

While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting his friends to a party designed to honor himself: a multimillion-dollar cage fight on the White House grounds. The UFC Freedom 250 event is being billed (by its promoters, anyway) as “the most historic sporting […]

Former President Barack Obama said it is “doubtful” that President Donald Trump’s emerging agreement with Iran will differ significantly from the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated during his administration. Speaking to ABC News’s Robin Roberts in an interview preview released Sunday, Obama said any agreement reached by the Trump administration would likely resemble the Joint Comprehensive […]

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday said the department is facing a threat level that’s "highest it’s ever been” with the lapse of spy powers authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The powers expired on Friday after lawmakers chose not to extend the warrantless surveillance of individuals living abroad,...

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith laid out his political ambitions in a Sunday interview, saying he would only seek the presidency if he were to ever run for public office. "I'm not interested in being no vice president. I'm not interested in being number two,” he said when asked by CNN's Kasie Hunt on "State...