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U.S. President Joe Biden pays a visit to Culver City for his campaign at Julian Dixon in Los Angeles, California, United States on Feb. 21, 2024. (Grace Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden touted a new pathway for debt relief that kicked into gear Wednesday for 153,000 student loan borrowers, calling it […]
LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it’s affecting the city’s most vulnerable residents — children, according to a newly released report. More than half of New York City residents, including a quarter of all children, live in poverty or are low-income, according […]
James C Hooper/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Investigators believe they have solved a decades-old cold case, identifying the woman who allegedly killed her newborn baby and left her in an Arizona airport bathroom in 2005. The baby’s mother, 51-year-old Annie Anderson, is in custody in Washington state on a warrant related to the investigation. She is […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in an interview Wednesday that she agrees with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered people in the state. “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News. “When you talk about an embryo, you are talking about, to me, that’s […]
Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University officials are denouncing a cartoon deemed antisemitic after it was posted and then deleted on social media by a student group collective. The infographic from the student groups Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization was intended to explain similarities between […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A 19-year-old has been charged with first-degree theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle in connection with the break-in of a Secret Service limo in November outside President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden’s home in Washington, court records show. Robert Kemp, a 19-year-old Washington resident, was charged in early February […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office visited Annunciation House on Feb. 7, demanding it provide extensive documentation that included the identities of all migrants the organization […]
Douglas Graham/Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — Republican businessman Eric Hovde officially entered the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin this week, touting his entrepreneurial success as he tries to topple two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin and help his party retake one half of Congress. “Our country is facing enormous challenges: our economy, our health care, crime and […]
U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment. Prosecutors in Manhattan say that beginning in early 2020, Takeshi Ebisawa […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — James Biden, the president’s younger brother, told lawmakers at a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the president “has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest” in his family’s business ventures — a key point Republicans are disputing in their ongoing impeachment […]
