Tag: act
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The Social Security Fairness Act is now in the hands of the Senate. Here’s what could happen next.
Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand Social Security benefits are intensifying, as the House-passed Social Security Fairness Act enjoys rare bipartisan support but has only a short window of time — six weeks — to be passed. “We’re guardedly optimistic,” Shannon Benton executive director of The Senior Citizens League,…
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Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to be sentenced for violating Espionage Act
Former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who admitted he illegally posted sensitive military information to online chat rooms in what prosecutors called one of the “most prolific” and “rare” government leak operations, is set to be sentenced in a Boston courtroom on Tuesday. Teixeira, a 22-year-old Massachusetts native, pleaded guilty in March to six…
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield. Zelenskyy raised the prospect of a preemptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained and said Kyiv knows their location. But he said Ukraine can’t do it…