
Biden announces more student debt relief as payments resume after the coronavirus pandemic pause
The Democratic president’s latest step will help 125,000 borrowers by erasing $9 billion in debt through existing relief programs

The Democratic president’s latest step will help 125,000 borrowers by erasing $9 billion in debt through existing relief programs

Legislative activity is paralyzed until the election of a new House Speaker but the ability of Republican hardliners to hold Congress hostage threatens a much longer stalemate

Matt Gaetz, from the hard-right wing of the Republican Party, forces their leader in Congress, nine months after his appointment, out of office in a historic move that plunges the United States into legislative paralysis

With diplomatic tensions running high between Beijing and a number of Western governments, China appears to be gradually pulling back its pandas from multiple Western zoos as their agreements expire

The leaders of Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Britain, the European Commission, the European Council and the NATO joined Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the call

A spokesman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected the Trump campaign statement about canceling debates, saying the country ‘needs a president who will fight for them anywhere, in any forum’

President Joe Biden’s son appeared in a Wilmington court after his plea deal collapsed. The latest move puts his case on track toward a possible trial as the 2024 election looms

Congressman Matt Gaetz has presented a motion to oust Kevin McCarthy, whose fate may be in the hands of the Democrats

It’s a historic moment: the first time in more than 100 years that a lawmaker may actually force a vote using the legislative tool that has been threatened against other House speakers

The talks took place after the weekend election victory in EU member Slovakia of former Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose pro-Russian agenda has increased the question marks about the EU’s continued support for Kyiv

Safe Mobility offers legal routes to North America from Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala. However, migrants have nowhere to go to obtain access and complain of being forced to sign confidentiality agreements

Lawmakers from both parties claim that they will seek funds to help Kyiv in the coming days, but the far-right Republican faction is increasing its resistance

Many lawmakers acknowledge that winning approval for Ukraine assistance in Congress is growing more difficult as the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on

‘We cannot under any circumstances allow American for Ukraine to be interrupted,’ the president said after Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a short-term funding package

The rushed package drops aid to Ukraine but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion. The bill funds government until Nov. 17

A government shutdown that could begin Sunday would mean even more chaos in Washington at a time when he’s running for reelection

The White House is preparing to keep only essential public services open and furlough hundreds of thousands of civil servants

The House’s right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient

Stellantis was spared from the third round of strikes, which will spread to 7,000 union workers in Chicago and Lansing

Paul Krugman is surprised that Americans do not share his euphoric view of the country’s economic data, but the reality is that people’s living standards have not improved

In a speech in Arizona, the president warned of the danger to American institutions and the U.S. Constitution posed by the former president and his ‘extremist movement’

It’s a high-stakes opening act for Republicans, coming in the midst of a potential federal government shutdown, as they try to link the business dealings of Hunter Biden to the president. But so far they have no hard evidence of wrongdoing

Congress is at a crossroads days before a disruptive federal shutdown that would halt paychecks for many of the federal government’s roughly 2 million employees, as well as 2 million active-duty military troops and reservists

The great American writer who has been writing satires for 40 years about the racism that he himself has suffered has published ‘The Trees’, an editorial phenomenon about (dead) Black people killing whites

Massive striking by autoworkers has placed economic discontent at the center of the political agenda

Several candidates dared to criticize the absent Trump, but none stood out enough to narrow his lead in the polls

During his speech Wednesday night, the former president and Republican frontrunner attacked electric cars and presented himself as the defender of the ‘working class’