The Social Security Administration calculates your retirement benefits by reviewing your lifetime earnings and indexing your highest 35 years of earnings to wage growth to produce an Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME).
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Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
21 July 2026
The 2015 staff report recommended indexing the thresholds to inflation on a go-forward basis.
Trailed uselessly by Charlie, who is next seen ordering the police chief about.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2026
Leo also scrapped Francis’ plan to move parts of the Vatican’s secret archives and library off-site, ordering a new building inside the city-state to safeguard its trove of manuscripts.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Sep. 2026
Maithreyi Gopalan is a professor and researcher at the University of Oregon and has been analyzing the latest files over the last two days.
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Jonaki Mehta,
NPR,
4 Sep. 2026
That’s what Florida International University researchers learned while testing popular smartwatches from Apple, Fitbit, Samsung and Garmin as part of a new study analyzing how effective the wearable tech is for tracking calories.
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Michelle Marchante
September 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2026
The case turned into a years-long legal saga, with multiple people convicted of their roles in arranging the hit, including Wendi’s brother, Charlie Adelson, and her mother, Donna.
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Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2026
Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.
If a judge is instead presented with whether the constitution allows — or bans — transgender rights or transgender participation in sports, powerful rulings could emerge either codifying or denying them.
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Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2026
Kenneth Stern, who drafted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, has opposed codifying the definition in hate speech laws.
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Jack Harvel
August 26,
Kansas City Star,
26 Aug. 2026
For The Times) One of the morning panelists, UC Davis associate professor Alessandro Ossola, recounted the process of cataloging more than 200 types of trees on public lands in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.
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Pedro Moura,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Sep. 2026
While cataloguing nearly two decades of molds, samples and commissions for an archival project, Borgo began looking at those familiar forms differently.
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