President Joe Biden on Friday announced student debt cancellation of nearly $5 billion for an additional 74,000 borrowers, including more than half who earned forgiveness after 10 years of public service as teachers, nurses, and firefighters. The White House announcement brings the total loan forgiveness approved by the Biden-Harris administration to $136.6 billion for more
Bob Casey, Sherrod Brown signed onto letter from left-wing lawmakers trashing ‘hasty designation of Houthi rebels’ L: Sen. Sherrod Brown (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) R: Sen. Bob Casey (Mark Makela/Getty Images) In 2021, Sens. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) and Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) praised President Joe Biden for his “positive” and “welcome” decision to pull the
Two California school districts are under federal investigation amid accusations against the districts of anti-Semitism. Although it is unclear whether the inquiries are specifically about anti-Semitism, the Department of Education in the past week opened probes into the San Francisco Unified School District and the Oakland Unified School District, both of which have received criticism
The district attorney prosecuting former president Donald Trump in Georgia suggested in an email exchange earlier this month that racism was at play when one of Trump’s attorneys pressed her team for a response to his emails. Trump defense lawyer Steven Sadow requested responses from District Attorney Fani Willis’s team to a series of emails
With the spring semester weeks away, MIT’s Coalition Against Apartheid vows ‘even stronger and even bigger’ action (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Jewish students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are set to return to the classroom next month, where they will be greeted by an anti-Israel student group that is threatening to shut down “business as
Critics say exemption neuters sanctions meant to choke off Iranian proxy’s resources (Getty Images) The Biden administration’s recently announced sanctions on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels will include a carveout that permits the terror group to engage in lucrative energy and fuel-related transactions with Americans, a decision that congressional critics say effectively neuters the sanctions. A license issued
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow announced live on-air on Monday that she would not cut to President Donald Trump’s victory speech in the Iowa caucuses, explaining: “There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things.” It’s a line Maddow has repeatedly used before to justify blackballing Trump, the frontrunner for