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WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection need to improve oversight and guidance for federal immigration officers’ use of body-worn cameras, according to a Wednesday report from independent federal investigators. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security…
This story was corrected on Oct. 14 at 1:34 p.m. to state that the median two-bedroom rent in 2024 was higher than what the median teacher salary could comfortably afford. The rent itself was not higher than the median monthly salary. To choose the teaching profession in New Hampshire is to navigate a series of
I have a bridge that I’d like to sell you — maybe you’ve heard that one before. Actually, you’ve bought this bridge once before, long ago. I want you to buy it again. There’s a catch: this bridge has moved — not physically — but it’s in a different country. In 1936, Peterborough flooded. The
Gather, a Portsmouth-based food pantry and community food center, is bringing its fresh food bus, nicknamed “Gus the Bus,” to Lamprey Health Care’s community health center in Newmarket. The bus will be at the facility’s parking lot — 207 South Main St. in Newmarket — every other Thursday from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30…
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states…
When the federal government revealed how much money it was giving New Hampshire as part of its Rural Health Transformation Program, Granite State leaders bragged that the state secured more funding than any other New England state (though Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont received more per rural…
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S…