So long as the U.S. has an imperial presidency, lots of people will want to be close to the emperor. After seeing the way Trump treated many of the people he hired during his first term as president, it’s not unreasonable to wonder who in his right mind would want to serve in a potential second Trump administration. Trump prizes loyalty, but the first Republican senator to endorse him in 2016, Jeff Sessions, soon fell out with Trump after a tumultuous tenure as attorney general. Rex...

A new Biden administration rule will make recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals eligible to obtain health insurance plans established by the Affordable Care Act. But former President Donald Trump has mischaracterized the regulation, claiming that it is “giving Obamacare and all free government health care to illegal aliens.” DACA is a program created by the Obama administration to defer deporting certain individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as...

Europe has struggled over the Middle East for a very long time. The decision by Ireland, Spain and Norway to recognize a Palestinian state tells us more about the domestic politics of those countries than anything else. Obviously, the decision of three European nations to take this step is newsworthy and will have repercussions diplomatically, perhaps putting pressure on their allies to take a firmer stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. However, it is also...

President Joe Biden has announced another $7.7 billion in student loans will not need to be repaid, with those who stand to benefit having an average of $35,000 in debt written off. “Today, my administration is canceling student debt for 160,000 more people, bringing the total number of Americans who have benefitted from our debt relief actions to 4.75 million,” Biden said in a prepared statement. The president said the new round is for loanees enrolled in...

The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs. The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will erase $7.7 billion in federal student loans. With the latest action, the administration said it has canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs. “From day one of my administration, I promised to fight to...

They went the whole nine yards with this one. White House officials went into cleanup mode after President Biden delivered a gaffe-riddled speech to the NAACP in Detroit Sunday — making a whopping nine corrections to the formal transcript. The changes fixed both trips of Biden’s tongue — such as calling Capitol rioters “irrectionists” — and flagrant retellings of history, like claiming he was still vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in economic rewards from a global program meant to help the developing world grapple with the effects of climate change, a Reuters review of U.N. and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development data shows. The financial gains happen as part of developed nations’ pledge to send $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them reduce emissions and cope with extreme weather. By...

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he is canceling some $7.7 billion in student debt for another 160,000 borrowers. The latest relief will go to borrowers in three categories: almost 67,000 borrowers who are eligible for debt cancellation through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, approximately 54,000 who are enrolled in a new income-driven repayment plan, and 39,200 enrolled in earlier income-driven plans. The administration has been announcing new...

An explosives dog in Prince George’s County who almost didn’t survive an Anne Arundel County animal shelter earlier this year is ready to protect and serve. Two-year-old German shepherd Boomer is one of Prince George’s County’s newest first responders. “He was a pound rescue set to be euthanized — probably within hours,” Prince George’s County police Cpl. Andrew Cummings said…. Source: Dog spared being put down by animal shelter joins ranks of first responders in Prince George’s Excellent.

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