The official 2027 COLA will be announced on Oct. 14, but some senior citizens' groups are already forecasting the benefits bump retirees can expect.
NYTimes – Business If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.
NYTimes – Business If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.
NPR – US New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate an alleged gang-rape at a Cornell University fraternity house. Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney's handling of the case. The appointment follows renewed scrutiny of a 2024 university investigation and the release of documents in which the accuser said she felt "like bait."
NPR – US The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.
NYTimes – US Tennessee's attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection was botched, and she survived, her attorneys said. The incident revived debate over botched lethal injections in the U.S. and echoed a May attempt on Tony Carruthers, when the state said it could not find a suitable vein. Pike's attorneys called the execution "torturous" and said they had warned it could be botched.
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