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Goonch's JournalThe Big Lonely
Documenting the seventh year of one mans extraordinary isolation in the wilderness, The Big Lonely captures the essence of the human spirits loneliness, survival, and resilience in a uniquely filmed manner.
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Social Security monthly benefits will increase 2.8% in 2026
Social Security recipients will receive a 2.8% boost in their monthly benefits in 2026, the Social Security Administration announced Friday. However, many seniors say the annual adjustments haven’t been enough to cover their ever-rising expenses.
The increase for 2026 is larger than the 2.5% cost-of-living-adjustment that beneficiaries received for this year, but far smaller than the ones for the few years before that, when inflation was running rampant.
Monthly payments for retired workers will rise by about $56 to an estimated average of $2,071 starting in January, the agency said. Nearly 71 million senior citizens, people with disabilities and others receive Social Security benefits.
(A total of 75 million Americans receive either Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits from the agency. Some receive both.)
The annual adjustment, known as a COLA, is based on an inflation metric from the third quarter of the year. Inflation has moderated after being at around a four-decade high in 2022, which resulted in an 8.7% adjustment for 2023.
A related metric, the Consumer Price Index, rose 3% in September compared with a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday.
The COLA increase was scheduled to be announced last week but was delayed by the federal government shutdown.
A good chunk of beneficiaries’ COLA for 2026 will likely be erased by an increase in Medicare Part B premiums, which is expected to be released next month. The monthly premium for 2026 is forecast to jump to more than $206, up from $185 this year, according to Medicare’s most recent trustees report. That would be about twice the increase for 2025.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/social-security-cola-increase-2026
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President Donald Trump is in 'exceptional health,' his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump is in “exceptional health,” his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, called a “scheduled follow-up evaluation” that was a “part of his ongoing health maintenance plan.” While there, Trump also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a COVID-19 booster vaccine.
“President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance,” Barbabella wrote in a one-page memo released Friday night by the White House. The doctor noted in the memo that the evaluation helped prepare for Trump’s upcoming overseas trips and included advanced imaging, lab testing and preventive health assessments.
The president is traveling to the Middle East this weekend and is scheduled to fly to Asia at the end of this month.
Barbabella also said he evaluated Trump’s cardiac age, which was about 14 years younger than his chronological age. Trump is 79 and was the oldest U.S. president at his inauguration...............
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-physical-walter-reed-e4c3cd4ef5aab8e4d86d00b02a1ed710
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Stephen King named most banned author in US schools
"Bestselling author Stephen King was named the most banned writer of the 2024-25 school year in PEN America’s latest report tracking book censorship in the U.S.
Some 87 titles among King’s oeuvre, which includes “The Stand,” “It” and “The Shining,” were banned 206 times during the school year, PEN America said.
Its report found that between July 2024 and this June, there were 6,870 instances of book bans in 87 school districts across 23 states. PEN America counts any instance of a book pulled off a shelf as a ban. ..........."
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5536738-stephen-king-book-bans-schools-pen-america/
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