The White House is taking a victory lap after the number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico dropped 40% since President Joe Biden's executive order, though the numbers remain high. The Biden administration said daily crossings have fallen below, 2,400, the lowest level since the final days of the Trump administration. Biden's executive order shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the...

President Joe Biden‘s plans to cancel student loan debt have been partially blocked thanks to a pair of court rulings, but the matter remains alive for both sides in the 2024 election. Responding to lawsuits filed by a pair of Republican attorneys general, federal judges in Missouri and Kansas ruled this week that Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education program cannot be fully implemented, temporarily pausing major elements until the case is decided. That means millions...

Arrests for illegal border crossings dropped more than 40% during the three weeks asylum processing has been suspended, the Homeland Security Department has said. Border Patrol's 7-day daily average arrests have fallen below 2,400, the lowest number since 17 January 2021, according to Homeland Security. President Joe Biden suspended asylum processing with an executive order to "gain control of the border" on June 5. Border arrests had decreased 25% as of last week according to Biden,...

A pair of federal judges have hit the brakes on President Biden’s latest student loan repayment plan, signaling that the program is at risk of being overturned and leaving millions of borrowers in a state of panic. Biden launched the Saving on a Valuable Education program, commonly known as Save, last fall as millions of Americans resumed student loan payments after a pandemic-triggered hiatus of more than three years. The new plan offered lower monthly payments and a faster path...

The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has plummeted 40 percent since President Joe Biden clamped down on asylum earlier this month, administration officials said Wednesday. Daily crossings have fallen below 2,400. That’s the lowest level since Jan. 17, 2021, right before the president took office. But encounters still remain too high for the president’s newly implemented restrictions to be lifted: Migrants will continue to be barred from seeking asylum in between...

Cody Gude was counting the seconds until July when his monthly student loan payment was scheduled to drop to $100 from $200. The lower payment meant that he would no longer need to deliver groceries on Instacart in his spare time, on top of his work as a social media consultant. “I could breathe,” the 35-year-old Tampa, Florida, resident said. But then he saw headlines on Monday that major parts of the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan were on pause. Two...

When Joe Biden and Donald Trump met on a debate stage in October 2020, the result was…something. The Washington Post called it "the worst presidential debate in living memory." For media analyst Tom Jones at Poynter, it was a "dumpster fire" full of "constant interruptions. Constant talking over one another. Name-calling. Juvenile bickering." A transcript of the debate reads like gibberish. Some commentators suggested that the planned rematch a few weeks later should...

Here we go again. Four years after then-President Donald Trump clashed with Joe Biden on the debate stage, Americans will get to see them go at it again beginning Thursday night. Before you settle in for the first of two forums between the presumptive Republican and Democratic nominees, here’s a look back at the most memorable moments from their 2020 showdowns. Trump comes in ‘too hot’ Even by Trump’s standard of freewheeling politics, the first debate with Biden on...

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