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Social Security recipients get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, average of $56 per month 10/24/2025 01:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Social Security Administration's annual cost-of-living adjustment will go up by 2.8% in 2026, translating to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month, agency officials said Friday. The benefits increase for nearly 71 million Social Security recipients wi How Hispanics' views of Trump have changed since January, according to a new AP-NORC poll 10/24/2025 01:24pm • President Donald Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a new AP-NORC poll shows, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election. The October survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Men sentenced over London arson attack masterminded by Russia as part of a wider sabotage campaign 10/24/2025 01:15pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A British judge on Friday sentenced five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence as part of a wider campaign of sabotage and disruption. Their sentences ranged from seven to 17 years in prison. Another man was sen US inflation stays elevated but prices rose less than feared last month 10/24/2025 01:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. inflation remained elevated last month as gas prices jumped while the cost of rents cooled, painting a mixed picture of the expenses consumers are facing in a murky economy where growth appears steady but hiring slow. Consumer prices increased 3% in September from a year ear Social Security recipients will get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, reflecting an average increase of $56 per month 10/24/2025 08:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Social Security recipients will get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, reflecting an average increase of $56 per month. Tanzania's first female president has defied early hopes that she would ease repression 10/24/2025 06:31am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Less than six months after Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania���s first woman president in 2021, the country���s most famous cartoonist depicted her in a military general���s uniform under the title ���Dictatoress.��� In the cartoon by Tanzanian-born Gado, drawn One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world 10/23/2025 10:10pm • As they walked up to the thick metal pillars of the border wall dividing Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini siblings carried nothing from their lives in Afghanistan than a hazy fantasy of what awaited them on the other side. Amir, 21, and his sisters, Suraiya, 26, and Bano, 27, arrived in northern How inflatable costumes ballooned at anti-Trump rallies due to a Portland protester's frog outfit 10/23/2025 09:28pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume while protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building in Portland, Oregon, when a federal officer unleashed a torrent of chemical spray directly into the costume's air vent. Video of the incident on Oct The Latest: Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao 10/23/2025 08:56pm • President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world���s largest cryptocurrency exchange and pled guilty in 2023 to enabling money laundering. Zhao served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child s What Will the Social Security COLA Raise Be for 2026? 10/23/2025 08:00pm • Social Security beneficiaries will see their payments increase 2.8% in January 2026, thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. The announcement came on Friday and was delayed due to the ongoing government shutdown. Known as the COLA, this increase is intended to ensure Social Securit The Latest: NBA coaches and player charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes 10/23/2025 07:11pm • Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said on Thursday. Roz Trump gives disaster declarations to Alaska and others but denies Illinois, Vermont and Maryland 10/23/2025 06:37pm • President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers. The decisions fell mostly along party lines, Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor 10/23/2025 05:19pm • ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Thursday that he���s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime after speaking to the mayor and several prominent business leaders who said they're working hard to clean up the city. Trump had been threatening China and the United States, Fall 2025: A timeline of remarks, threats, critiques ��� and dialogue 10/23/2025 04:27pm • Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. In response to recent U.S. restrictions, China plans to expand permitting requirements on rare earth products. Trump has threatened a 100% Backing Israel was considered mandatory for New York politicians. Then came Zohran Mamdani 10/23/2025 02:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth a political calculus long accepted as fact in New York: ���Being a Democrat,��� he said, ���it���s synonymous that you support Israel.��� Mamdani, who would