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When to Expect Your Social Security Checks 12/18/2025 07:00pm • Claiming your Social Security payments is a retirement milestone. However, not everyone receives their Social Security check on the same date. Benefits are paid out on Wednesdays, and recipients with a birthday early in the month receive Social Security payments before those born later in the month. US Justice Department sues 3 states, District of Columbia for voter data 12/18/2025 06:55pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The U.S. Justice Department sued three states and the District of Columbia on Thursday for not turning over requested voter information to the Trump administration. The latest lawsuits were filed against Wisconsin, Illinois, Georgia and the District of Columbia. The Justice De Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI 12/18/2025 04:29pm • The parent company of President Donald Trump���s Truth Social media platform is merging with a fusion power company, an unusual pairing of the Trump name with a futuristic clean energy venture that aims to power the next wave of artificial intelligence. Trump Media & Technology announced its mer Illinois panel's first meeting over federal misconduct focuses on chemical agents 12/18/2025 04:15pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A commission formed to document alleged harassment and abuse by federal agents during an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area reviewed the wide use of chemical agents in its first public hearing Thursday. The immigration operation, which started in September, has been marked by Student who allegedly stabbed 14-year-old inside Prince George���s County high school charged with attempted murder 12/18/2025 02:29pm • A teenager is facing a charge of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old student inside Parkdale High School on Thursday morning, according to Prince George's County police. A police spokesperson said the 14-year-old is in critical, but stable, condition after being stabbed at t DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled 12/18/2025 12:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The federal agent described her wounds as ���boo-boos.��� Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald Staging the Africa Cup of Nations part of Morocco's bid to become a soccer superpower 12/18/2025 06:23am • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Staging the Africa Cup of Nations from Sunday is another major step in Morocco���s road to becoming a global soccer power and a dry run as a co-host for the 2030 World Cup. Three years after reaching the semifinals of the 2022 World Cup, the North African kingdom will host 24 Why I have a financial planner 12/18/2025 06:00am • It might surprise people that my husband and I pay a financial planner, given that I spend a lot of time on financial, tax, and investment planning at work. However, hiring a planner has delivered a return that can���t be quantified: peace of mind. Here are some key reasons we pay for financial adv Key findings of an AP analysis examining federal prosecutions of protesters 12/18/2025 12:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department has launched a months-long effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting or hindering federal officers while protesting President Donald Trump���s immigration crackdown and military deployments. Attorney General Pam Bondi has vowed such offenders will fa Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack 12/18/2025 12:02am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students Saturday at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before. Authorities have released several videos from the day of the attack, which Neighborhood cameras capture potential shooter's route around Brown University 12/17/2025 11:59pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� The shooting at Brown University on Saturday happened inside an engineering building at the eastern edge of campus, where the Ivy League school blends into a residential neighborhood. Hours before the attack, security camera footage captured a person of interest police say The Latest: Trump addresses the American public in a live speech from the White House 12/17/2025 09:53pm • President Donald Trump delivered a speech live from the White House on Wednesday night where he discussed his achievements and touched on some of his agenda for next year and beyond. The president���s predecessor, whom Trump continues to lambaste regularly, figured prominently at the start of his ad Trump demands Venezuela pay for seized US oil assets after calling for 'blockade' 12/17/2025 09:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that Venezuela return assets that it seized from U.S. oil companies years ago, justifying anew his announcement of a ���blockade��� against oil tankers traveling to or from the South American country that face American sanctions. Trump ci FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau's No 2 official 12/17/2025 09:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law Senator pauses Coast Guard nomination over policy on swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols 12/17/2025 08:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A U.S. senator said Wednesday that she is pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have ���backtracked��� on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D