Author: Eden Villalovas

New Mexico residents who receive food stamps from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be sent their benefits for January in just one day. SNAP benefits for low-income New Mexican families and individuals will be sent by Saturday. Payments begin to be issued on the 1st of the month and then end on the 20th. The day the…

An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport Thursday evening after experiencing an engine malfunction shortly after its departure.  Unverified videos that circulated on the social media platform X showed flames and sparks shooting out of the aircraft’s left wing in midair. The aircraft landed safely at Miami…

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) kicked Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) out of a House committee hearing about relations between the United States and Cuba, accusing the California Democrat of spreading “communist propaganda.” On Thursday, Lee attended a hearing of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which she is not a member…

Former baseball star Steve Garvey is gaining traction in California’s Senate race, surpassing a prominent House Democrat in recent polling.  A new Emerson College Polling-Inside California Politics poll released Thursday found that 18% of voters support Garvey, while 13% support Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA). Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is the clear front-runner for the California…

Ken Langone, a co-founder of Home Depot, said further donations to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hinge on the results of the primary election in New Hampshire next week. The billionaire told the Financial Times on Thursday that he’s waiting for the results of the first-in-the-nation primary before giving a “major…

Georgia will finish sending out benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to qualified low-income residents for January in five days. SNAP is distributed from Jan. 5 to Jan. 23 in Georgia. SNAP payments will be issued to recipients’ accounts on days depending on the last two digits of a beneficiary’s client ID. For example, IDs ending in 90-99 will receive their…

New Mexico residents who get monthly benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see their January payouts in the next two days if they have yet to receive them. All SNAP benefits for New Mexicans will be sent by Saturday. Payments are issued on the first of the month and end on the 20th. The days…

Florida Democrats quietly flipped a state House seat blue in a special election on Tuesday as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was campaigning after a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. Orlando Democrat Tom Keen narrowly defeated his Republican opponent Erika Booth to fill a vacant House seat. Keen, a manager at Collins Aerospace and a…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich encouraged House Republicans to “stand firm” in negotiations with GOP senators by refusing to give aid to Ukraine until additional security measures are established for the southern border. “I hope the House Republicans stand firm and tell the Senate Republicans, ‘We want a real border bill or nothing, and we’re…

Amid a wave of backlash against Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) for removing language about diversity, equity, and inclusion from his campaign website, the Minnesota representative is turning the dispute on President Joe Biden. The longshot Democratic candidate challenging Biden blasted the president’s campaign site for lacking a section related to “civil rights, voting rights, racial…