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Biden Picks Zients as His Next White House Chief of Staff
President Joe Biden has announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of staff, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Biden Admin Proposes Allowing People to Choose Hispanic or Latino as a Race
The Biden administration is proposing to allow people to choose Hispanic or Latino as both their race and ethnicity on federal surveys.
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GOP States Sue Biden Administration Over New Border Policy
Twenty states with GOP attorneys general are suing the Biden administration over a major change in immigration policy.
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More Student Loan Borrowers May Have $0 Payments Under Biden's New Plan. What You Need to Know
In the new student loan repayment plan rolled out by the Biden administration, certain borrowers could see their monthly payments drop significantly.
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More Classified Documents Found at Biden's Home by Lawyers
The White House says lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known. White House lawyer Richard Sauber says in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page...
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DOJ Reviewing Potentially Classified Documents at Biden Center
The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute.
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Biden to Get a Firsthand Look at US-Mexico Border Situation
President Joe Biden is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border later Sunday for a firsthand look at border security.
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Biden Signs Law to Help Preserve Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camps
A new law signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday will help memorialize the history of the U.S. government’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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US to Reopen Solomon Islands Embassy to Counter China's Influence in the Pacific
The Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans to open a U.S. embassy in the Solomon Islands in a bid to counter China’s increasing assertiveness in the Pacific.
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Arizona to Take Down Shipping Container Wall From Mexico Border
Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the federal government over trespassing on federal lands.
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Biden Releases Most JFK Assassination Records — But Withholds Thousands
President Joe Biden’s administration released more than 13,000 records of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination Thursday, but it fell short of fully complying with the spirit of a 30-year-old law demanding transparency by now.
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Biden Administration Proposes Ban on Misleading Medicare Ads
The Biden administration has proposed a ban on misleading ads for Medicare Advantage plans that have targeted older Americans and, in some cases, convinced them to sign up for plans that don’t cover their doctors or prescriptions.
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Biden Forms Interagency Group to Draft Antisemitism Strategy
Amid a surge in hateful rhetoric and violence, President Joe Biden has formed a new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism.
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Senate Moves to Avert Rail Strike Amid Dire Warnings
The Senate moved quickly Thursday to avert a rail strike that the Biden administration and business leaders warned would have had devastating consequences for the nation’s economy.
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Biden Extending Pause on Student Loan Payments
According to a White House official, the pause will extend to either 60 days after June 30 or 60 days after the Supreme Court determines the legality of the forgiveness plan, whichever comes sooner, NBC News reported.
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Biden Administration Extending Pause in Student Loan Payments
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration will extend a pause on federal student loan payments while the White House fights a legal battle to save his plan to cancel portions of the debt. “It isn’t fair to ask tens of millions of borrowers eligible for relief to resume their student debt payments while the courts consider the lawsuit,”...
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House GOP Pushes Hunter Biden Probe Despite Thin Majority
Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.
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White House Facing Pressure to Extend Student Loan Payment Pause
Advocates say Biden should continue the pandemic-era payment pause until legal issues are resolved.
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US Will Begin Deporting Cubans by Plane in ‘Coming Weeks,' US Officials Say
The flights would be the first since the Trump administration. Cuba has now agreed to accept deportees.
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Judge Orders Halt of Trump-Era Policy That Allowed Expulsion of Asylum Seekers
A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of border enforcement since the beginning of COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Tuesday in Washington that “Title 42” authority must end immediately for families and single adults. He said the regulation, aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 under public...