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Concerns Against Raising Retirement Age: white-collar lawmakers, blue-collar burdens

Guinea-Bissau military halts final vote tally, prompting UN condemnation

By Alexander Fernandez, Reporter The United States revoked visas and imposed new travel restrictions on individuals in Nicaragua who, according to the State Department, facilitated irregular migration routes that moved travelers toward the U.S. border. In a Nov. 17 announcement, the department said the action targeted owners, executives, and senior officials in transportation companies, travel agencies, and tour operators that marketed or coordinated travel for migrants seeki

How the dark fleet evades global enforcement

Japan’s parliament, known as the National Diet (ND), voted to elect Sanae Takaichi as the country’s new prime minister on Oct. 21, 2025. She becomes Japan’s first female prime minister, succeeding Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned in September 2025 after his party suffered internal divisions and declining public approval. Her election comes in a country where women hold fewer than 10% of seats in the House of Representatives, according to Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and C

Federal healthcare funding begins and ends with the American taxpayer. In 2024, individuals and employers contributed about $1.7 trillion to Medicare and Medicaid — roughly $848 billion for Medicare and $890 billion for Medicaid — according to federal budget data. Together, these programs account for more than one quarter of total federal spending, and nearly one in three Americans receives coverage through them. Each year, Medicare collects slightly more in revenue than it p

By Alexander Fernandez Life News Today WASHINGTON (Oct. 15, 2025) — When Congress passed the Martha Wright-Reed Act in 2023, it promised an end to one of the most persistent financial burdens in America’s justice system: the price of a phone call home. Two years later, that promise remains out of reach. The law gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) full authority to regulate how much prisons and jails could charge for calls. The goal was simply to stop private tele

Alexander Fernandez A legacy neglected The Library of Congress (Library) in Washington, D.C., was established by an act of Congress in 1800 during John Adams’ presidency. It is the largest library in the world by cataloged holdings, with more than 178 million items in its collections as of 2025 and about 12,000 new items added each day, according to the Library’s About page. Its archives span books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, recordings and assorted curiosities su

By Alexander Fernandez Reporter for Life News Today Montgomery County, Md., Oct. 4, 2025 - At the heart of Montgomery County’s creative...

By Alexander Fernandez Reporter with Life News Today In 2011, long before a global pandemic tested national preparedness and cyberattacks targeted the nation’s infrastructure, a handful of junior officers at United States Strategic Command gathered in a windowless room in Omaha, Nebraska, facing a blank contingency planning template. Their assignment was to design a mock operation using the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES), the framework the Pentagon used

When a new restaurant prepares to open, the first diners through the door often arrive before the official launch. These quiet previews,...

When the United States first adopted daylight saving time, the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the summer months...

Trust in American newsrooms has fallen to historic lows. In 2025, only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the mass media a great deal...

Americans are waking up to a harsh reality: their most private communications are not always secure. Many phone calls, emails, and...

Elections

Four countries held elections in March. Pakistan on the 9th, Russia on the 17th, Slovakia on the 23rd, and Ukraine on March 31st....

Four countries held elections in February. El Salvador on the 5th, Azerbaijan on the 7th, Indonesia on the 14th, and Senegal on the 25th....

Trio Trio Residential, LLC (Trio), a company marketing itself as helpful to low-income families, with the dream of homeownership, who...

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, a rocket strike hit a Gaza City hospital killing over 500 people, according to AP. According to the 1970 U.N....

A new form of selling and buying real estate has emerged, called wholesaling . The practice has many homeowners losing thousands of...

Cirque du Soleil returns to Tysons from Sep. 6 until Oct. 22, showcasing their latest performance, Echo. The show’s runtime is 125...

Pig-butchering is a method used by scammers who drain money out of a investor’s cryptocurrency account. The scam uses an official-looking...

Every year my family and I go to the Renaissance Festival in Crownsville Maryland. This year was the first time that every restaurant and...

Uruguayan citizens face a three-year-long drought that threatens clean drinking water and risks health. The record-setting drought is...

Masha Platonova, 15, born in Moscow, Russia, started training as a figure skater at age 3. Her parents moved to Florida in 2021 to...

The National Weather Service reported that dry global temperatures and atmospheric contrast from Hurricane Dora caused wildfires in the...

Dealerships nationwide charge auto consumers excessive, undisclosed buyout fees at the time of payoff. The auto financing company sends a...

Introductory video to Holy See property ownership.

WASHINGTON- A Filipino-American Director will soon release the film, “Take Me To Banaue,” in 2023. Director Danny Aguilar, born and...

Vienna, VA- On the evening of July 24, 2022, a police pursuit of a large black pickup truck resulted in a hit-and-run when the large...

A mass heatwave affecting Europe began near the end of June and continues to break records in many European nations. The heatwave began...

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to step down Thursday, July 14, 2022 after protestors stormed his house July 9,...

The United States healthcare system has had its troubles for many years. Government health insurance programs such as Medicare and...

Lake Worth, FL - A newish marketplace located in Delray, The Delray Beach Market is in a building with a covered parking garage and is...

Cocomelon, a popular children’s cartoon, may act as a stimulant drug for toddlers due to hyperactive overstimulating qualities and...

El Salvador is a historically violent country. Since 1994, the country has been on the top 20 countries with the highest homicide rate...

Immigration affects different nations at different levels according to how the country prepares and deals with its influx. The mass...

Lake Worth, FL- A place so culturally diverse, from Miami’s neon lights and drug culture, the vacation homes of America’s tycoons to the...

URUGUAY-On May 31, 2022, a metallurgical factory laid off 150 workers in Uruguay. Union workers met on Monday with the general secretary...

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA- The Vice-Minister of Special Education, Sandra Cruz Nina, discussed the possibility of starting the winter school break...

WASHINGTON- An alarming percentage of the U.S. population suffers from Vitamin D Deficiency. The symptoms are disregarded and overlooked....

Refrigerators, computers, gaming consoles, and automobiles. What these different items have in common is one small, but crucial part....

Larry Connor, real estate and technology entrepreneur, founder of the Connor Group, is responsible for operating luxury apartments in...

Alton, VA- George Vidovic, one of the SVRA’s Speed Tour competitors at the Virginia International Raceway, graced us with an interview...

The legendary auto manufacturer and 24-Hour Le Manns winner Carroll Shelby once said, “one lap at VIR is like a hundred at Watkins Glen.”...

Ernie Francis Jr. began his racing career in 2017 at Road America, driving the number 13 Xfinity Nascar at age 19. He quickly became a...

Caesar Cone, a 60-year motorsport veteran, retired today on his 81st birthday. Cone began his more than a half-century-long racing career...

WASHINGTON- Due to the pandemic, the U.S. Mint slowed coin production leading to last year’s coin shortage. Early in the pandemic, coins...

Seeing the new 2021 Ford Bronco at the Battlefield, Manassas dealership was a real treat. Although this is not the first time seeing the...

As a car enthusiast, I understood the hype when Ford announced they would re-release the Bronco after 25 years since the last model sold...