Millions with student loan debt will soon pay less
Millions of borrowers will see their monthly student loan payments reduced starting in July.
Politics
Biden again calls Trump a ‘convicted felon’ at a fundraiser pushing his 5-day total to around $40M
President Joe Biden again taunted Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” during a high-dollar fundraiser Tuesday, saying his likely opponent in November’s election is waging an “all-out assault” on the U.S. legal system.
Election Commission certifies primaries, runoffs set for June 25
The results of the June 11, statewide primaries have been certified.
New York’s top court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of gag order in hush money case
New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month.
SC lawmakers discuss the state budget
Lawmakers are back at the State House this week but not in the way that many expected.
Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a new plan from Biden
President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers.
Surgeon General calls for warning label on social media apps
The U.S. Surgeon General is demanding Congress put a warning label on social media apps similar to the ones on cigarettes and alcohol.
Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of US citizens
President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration that had been sought by many Democrats.
Trump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but confuses the name of the doctor who tested him
Donald Trump on Saturday night suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence.
Biden’s campaign announces a $50 million advertising blitz highlighting Trump’s conviction
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is spending $50 million through the end of June, a blitz that includes its first television ad trumpeting Donald Trump’s felony conviction and signals that the Democratic incumbent is seeking to make his Republican opponent’s legal woes a bigger issue heading into November.
