BY ALEX GANGITANO AND LEXI LONAS |
The issue of student loans stands to loom over President Biden's 2024 bid as he tackles one of his key first-term campaign promises being tied up at the Supreme Court. Biden managed to deliver on the promise of developing a program to forgive a chunk of student debt to the cheers of many Democrats and progressives who pushed him on the issue during his first two years in the White House. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND BRETT SAMUELS |
President Biden is taking his time shifting into campaign mode. In the nearly two weeks since he announced his reelection bid, Biden met with donors in Washington, D.C., and his 2024 campaign has rolled out a pair of ads in major swing states. But Biden has kept a low profile rather than capitalizing on the campaign launch. |
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President Biden defended Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday, claiming she "hasn't gotten the credit she deserves" as the two gear up for the 2024 election. "Look, I just think that Vice President Harris hasn't gotten the credit she deserves," Biden said in a sit-down interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. "She was an attorney general in the state of California. She has been a United States senator." |
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At least nine people have died, including the gunman, and several others were injured in a shooting at a mall outside of Dallas, Texas, according to local police. |
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As Congress battles over how to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt ahead of a looming deadline, Americans are getting a primer on the country's borrowing limit. This week, the Treasury Department warned it could run out of "extraordinary measures" to stave off a federal default as soon as June 1. If the U.S. runs out of cash to pay its bills, experts fear the global economy and financial system could face a catastrophe. |
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Former Vice President Mike Pence vowed to stand behind Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Saturday, as the justice faces criticism centered on reports about his close relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. "Ever since his nomination to the Supreme Court in 1991 Justice Thomas has been maliciously attacked by the Left, including by then Sen. Joe Biden," Pence tweeted. "The attacks on his character are continuing today, and it's appalling to see." |
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A group of a dozen Democratic senators are urging President Biden to allow states to sponsor noncitizens for work authorization in certain industries to expand the workforce. The senators, led by Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), said in a letter to Biden on Friday that the United States is facing major workforce shortages in multiple industries, and economists believe that two years of lost immigration amid the COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for almost half of the workers who are missing from the labor force. |
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President Biden is expected to soon announce that he has chosen Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to become the country's senior-most military officer later this year. If formally nominated and approved by the Senate, Brown, 60, would become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing Army Gen. Mark Milley, whose term ends at the end of September. |
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The announced withdrawal of Wagner Group fighters from the town of Bakhmut is another setback for Russia at a crucial moment in its war in Ukraine, exposing an enormous rift between the figures leading the effort just as Kyiv prepares to launch a counteroffensive. Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said Friday on Telegram that his mercenary company would leave the city in the Eastern Donetsk region May 10 after he accused Russia's Defense Ministry of depriving his fighters of ammunition and generally failing in the war effort. |
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OPINION | The president was in deep trouble, and everyone seemed to understand it except for himself and a few zealous aides.
As the summer of 1974 wore on, it became obvious to all that the Watergate break-in and the subsequent widespread cover-up that followed had politically and legally ensnared President Richard Nixon in a trap from which there was no viable escape. |
BY EVA GREENTHAL AND DR. PETER LURIE |
OPINION | Last week, members of Congress reintroduced the Food Labeling Modernization Act, a groundbreaking bill that would revolutionize the way we think about food labels. After being introduced in every Congress since 2013, this year's reintroduction, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Ben Cardin (Md.), Ed Markey (Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) and Reps. Frank Pauline (D-N.J.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), comes with a renewed sense of purpose. Nutrition policy is gaining increased attention from policymakers, and the bill comes at a time primed for transformative change. |
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BY DAN BALZ, SCOTT CLEMENT AND EMILY GUSKIN |
Former president Donald Trump leads a still-forming field of candidates for the GOP nomination, receiving about twice as much support as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. |
The Florida governor looked to excite voters in Wisconsin, finding supporters — but also doubters — in the competitive Midwest. |
First lady Jill Biden, who represented the United States at Saturday's coronation of Britain's King Charles III, said there was "such beauty in the pageantry of the ceremony" and it was "just amazing to see." |
Warren Buffett on Saturday criticized the handling of recent tumult in the banking sector and said a debt ceiling showdown could bring "turmoil" to the financial system, even as he offered a vote of confidence in the United States and his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. |
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