Biden’s reckless, broken promise on college debt
The federal student loan forgiveness program had virtually no chance of surviving judicial review by the current Supreme Court.
The federal student loan forgiveness program had virtually no chance of surviving judicial review by the current Supreme Court.
President Biden on Friday disputed the suggestion that he gave student loan borrowers "false hope" after his plan to offer relief of up to $20,000 in debt was struck down by the Supreme Court. "I didn’t give any false hope," Biden said in response to a question from a reporter. "The question was whether or...
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie suggested on Friday that he’s “living rent free in Donald’s head,” after former President Trump shared a photo of the former New Jersey governor sleeping. Trump posted an image of Christie sleeping on Truth Social with the caption, “Resting after a good 25 minutes of work!” Christie hit back at...
The Supreme Court’s Friday rulings, which included blows to President Biden’s student debt relief plan and LGBTQ rights, lit a firestorm on Capitol Hill, with Democrats decrying the decisions as “cruelty” and a step backwards and Republicans celebrating the rulings as lawful wins. The verdicts, which came on the final decision day of the Supreme Court’s...
Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS will not strike Friday and are going back to the negotiating table after the delivery company gave the union a new counteroffer amid heated contract negotiations. UPS offered the Teamsters "a revised counterproposal with significant movement on wages and other economic language" Friday afternoon, the union...
President Biden on Friday announced new actions to offer student loan borrowers some forgiveness, reintroducing his forgiveness plan grounded in the Higher Education Act (HEA). Using the HEA to provide student debt relief has been pushed by student loan advocates and top Democrats for years. Under the HEA, advocates argue it allows the education secretary to...
The vision of this country as a land of opportunity is longstanding and powerful. We ask our children, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and tell them, “the sky is the limit.” We encourage them to be doctors, teachers, artists, engineers, lawyers, and scientists — and beyond. We encourage them to...
The air quality across the Midwest and Northeast is looking up for the July Fourth holiday weekend, after smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the region earlier this week. The smoke began to lift on Friday, with the air quality index falling into the unhealthy for sensitive groups and moderate ranges in much of the Mid-Atlantic...
Much of North Carolina's 12-week abortion ban will take effect on Saturday, after a federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked just one provision of the law. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles blocked a provision requiring doctors to document in a medical record the existence of a pregnancy in the uterus when prescribing or administering abortion...
The National Park Service’s push to evict a 94-year-old artist from a beach shack on Cape Cod has drawn concerns from his congressional representatives, who have asked the NPS to consider finding a way he can remain there. Salvatore Del Deo has lived part-time since 1946 in “Frenchie’s Shack,” a Provincetown shack named for his...
Fox News has settled out of court with a former top producer who sued the network earlier this year, alleging a toxic and hostile workplace at the conservative media giant. In a motion to dismiss filed Friday in the U.S. Southern District of New York, former Fox producer Abby Grossberg's attorney said his client had...
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took a jab at his primary opponent, President Biden, over the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to shoot down Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. “The unfortunate SCOTUS ruling striking down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program was the predictable result of Biden's failure to bring Congress together on this...
This decision has immediate implications not only for universities and students but for the workforce and the country as a whole.
Millions of travelers are set to take flight this weekend ahead of Independence Day after a week of turbulent conditions that led to thousands of delays and cancellations. Experts expect the bulk of air travel to take place this weekend into next Tuesday with the busiest day on Friday, when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...
The Supreme Court handed conservatives a key victory this week when the high court struck down President Biden's plan that would have wiped out billions of dollars in debt for student borrowers. Under the president's student debt forgiveness plan, Pell Grant recipients would have seen up to $20,000 in loans cancelled while borrowers with non-Pell...
In her biting dissent Friday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that the Supreme Court’s decision to protect a Christian wedding website designer’s right to refuse services to LGBTQ+ couples could open the door for discrimination against other protected minority groups. “A website designer could equally refuse to create a wedding website for an interracial couple, for...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was instrumental in shaping the conservative-leaning composition of the Supreme Court, on Friday hailed the court’s decision rejecting President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan as a major victory. “The American people know that the Biden Administration’s student loan socialism plan would be a raw deal for hardworking taxpayers....
CNN analyst Van Jones had pointed criticism for the Supreme Court on Friday over what he described as the high court's evermore out-of-touch decisions. Jones said this week's decisions which struck down affirmative action, opened the door for discrimination based on sexual orientation discrimination and shot down President Biden’s loan forgiveness plan create a crisis...
Republicans are calling out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former House speaker, after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts quoted her in his majority ruling striking down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. The court ruled 6-3 that the program, which would have forgiven thousands of dollars in student loan debt for many borrowers, that...
If the airlines are the face of air travel, then the FAA is its blood and bones.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on Friday it has revised its guidance for the Medicare drug price negotiation program set up within the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), seemingly in response to the several lawsuits challenging the program's constitutionality. Negotiations under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program are set to take place...
With its affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court has shown a disappointing lack of vision for our country’s future.
The top Brazilian elections court has voted to ban former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from office for eight years after finding that he abused his power while president. Four of the seven members of the court voted that Bolsonaro, who served as the president of Brazil for four years before losing reelection in 2022, abused...
Although I am incredibly grateful to have gained an education from distinguished institutions, the reality is that I probably would have fared well even in the absence of these opportunities.
Indiana's top court on Friday said the state's near-total abortion ban is constitutional, and lifted a preliminary injunction that had been blocking the law from taking effect. Writing for three of the five Supreme Court justices, Justice Derek Molter said the Constitution "protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her...