The average Social Security check crossed $2,000 for the first time at the end of 2025. The same month that happened, Congress was handed a bill asking it to add $200 more on top. That pairing tells ...

Over 300 county residents signed their names to a petition that seeks to let voters decide whether to ban “dark money” from Montana politics. Across Montana, a group of all-volunteer signature ...

Helped by pausing payments to worker retirement funds, the U.S. Postal Service is no longer on track to run out of money and stop deliveries next year, Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed to ...

Retirement planners sometimes speak of a "magic number": a rough estimate of how much money an American might need to retire in comfort. Not surprisingly, the number keeps rising. Americans now need ...

In 2025, a rumor circulated online that California Gov. Gavin Newsom laundered millions of dollars through his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, by creating a state Office of the First Partner and ...