Biden announces more than $7B in student debt relief for 277,000 borrowers
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that his administration is canceling $7.4 billion in student loans for 277,000 borrowers.
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Biden heads to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to talk about taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is headed to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania on Tuesday to talk about who he believes should be paying more in taxes (billionaires) and who should be paying less (everyday Americans).
Biden administration announces another round of loan cancellation under new repayment plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness.
Environmentalists protest as Biden administration approves huge oil export terminal off Texas coast
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States.
Pro-Israel Republicans See What They Want To See In Trump's Skepticism Of Gaza War
WASHINGTON ― Republican senators promise they haven’t heard about former President Donald Trump’s cosmetic concerns about Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Speaker Mike Johnson to meet with Donald Trump amid threats to his job
WASHINGTON — With his job in jeopardy, House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to head to Florida on Friday to meet with the one man who could save his precarious speakership: the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump.
Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts
The big-money rightwing donor Leonard Leo said he would not comply with a subpoena issued by the US Senate judiciary committee, as it investigates undisclosed gifts to conservative supreme court justices that have stoked an ethics crisis at a court already held in historically low public esteem.
US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race
As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy.