The Biden administration is erasing $6.1 billion in federal student debt for 317,000 former attendees of The Art Institutes, a defunct for-profit chain of art colleges, officials announced Wednes...
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More California Democrats are pushing for a ceasefire and potentially withholding military aid to Israel in its war against Hamas after the killings of seven food aid workers in Gaza. … Click t...
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Even if Donald Trump loses to Joe Biden again this fall, Mitch McConnell still sees the odds of a Republican Senate majority in his party’s favor. During an interview with … Click to Continue...
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Lowering greenhouse gas emissions includes cleaning up California cow burps. The White House just allocated millions for it. Two Biden administration grants are sending $21.4 million to Californi...
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DC Space Race - Hide From App Shortly after New Year’s Day in 2019, China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon, where no mission had … Click to Continue »
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made his tough stance on China a signature issue in his presidential campaign. DeSantis has gone on the offensive against Chinese influence in recent months, … Cli...
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President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic met with President Joe Biden in the White House Thursday to discuss Haiti’s security situation and the economic relationship between Washington...
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Israel’s consul general in Miami on Thursday clarified Gov. Ron DeSantis’ role in facilitating a claimed transfer of weapons and ammunition to Israel, telling McClatchy that he asked the Flor...
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miami-desantis-timeline — app only message After years of building his political brand through policies that delighted conservatives and infuriated liberals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will put ...
This story has been updated as more information came to light. President Joe Biden is in Lake Tahoe ahead of his trip to review wildfire devastation on Maui. The Democrat … Click to Continue »...
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A federal judge in California tossed the Biden administration’s new immigration policy Tuesday, writing that the rules for asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border were unlawful. The decision w...
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The Biden administration will forgive $39 billion in federal student loans, the U.S. Education Secretary said Friday, for more than 804,000 borrowers. The announcement comes two weeks after the S...
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s net worth skyrocketed as he racked up side jobs throughout his time in office, including at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, an international litigation firm that...
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The United States Supreme Court is expected, as soon as this week, to release its decision on whether President Joe Biden can forgive student loans with a plan that offers … Click to Continue �...
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Republican lawmakers thought they had momentum this week in their hunt for a scandal on President Joe Biden. Then Donald Trump got indicted. Now they’re claiming a conspiracy is underway … Cl...
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Here’s the good news as the debt limit battle rages on: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries due payments this week will receive them as scheduled. SSI beneficiaries, ...
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You can try to ignore it, but debt will never just go away. That’s as true of your personal financial obligations as it is of our national ledger. President Joe … Click to Continue »
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Julie Su’s bid to become Secretary of Labor remains stalled in the Senate, by all accounts because she does not have the necessary votes to earn confirmation. But in one … Click to Continue �...
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Millions of seniors across the country “would see their Social Security benefits halted” if the government defaults, California Sen. Alex Padilla warned at a press conference last week. He’...
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The Biden administration harshly criticized the decision by a Florida judge on Thursday night to put a temporary restraining order on its emergency parole program, blocking the government’s abi...
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Tens of thousands of migrants are seeking to enter the United States through its southern border as Title 42, a pandemic era federal immigration measure, ends at midnight Eastern Time … Click t...
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When the pandemic-era immigration rule known as Title 42 comes to an end Thursday night, a new regulation will make it harder for migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico … Click to Continue »
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Biden administration officials have told the mother of Austin Tice, a journalist missing in Syria for over a decade, that securing his return is “going to be a process” that … Click to Cont...
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A powerful horse tranquilizer is at the center of a new federal effort to combat the nation’s rising fentanyl crisis. The White House recently declared xylazine combined with fentanyl an … Cl...
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President Joe Biden says he will seek a second term in the White House, announcing his reelection campaign in a video on Tuesday and promising to “finish the job.” Biden’s … Click to Cont...
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A fully-functional Senate Judiciary Committee could speed up the process to fill federal judge vacancies in California. But right now, that committee is not fully functional, and it’s unclear w...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act when he expressed support for Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla’s election at an event last year, a government watchdog said...
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President Joe Biden proposed spending more than $24 billion both to fund natural disaster response efforts and to bolster environmental conservation as part of his 2024 budget. That is among … ...
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Julie Su, the former California labor official who presided over the troubled state unemployment agency during the Covid pandemic, was nominated Tuesday as U.S. labor secretary by President Joe B...
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“Absolutely.” Vice President Kamala Harris then said it again: “Absolutely.” Harris’ conviction was in response this question asked during an exclusive interview with The Sacramento Bee...