Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
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Biden calls for female athletes to get 'paid what they deserve' as Caitlin Clark's WNBA salary sparks debate President Biden weighed in on the fairness of female athletes' salaries as a debate raged online about the money Caitlin Clark will make in the WNBA in 2024. 04/16/2024 - 12:50 pm | View Link
President Biden earned $620,000 in 2023 and paid 23.7% in federal income taxes, returns show While President Joe Biden released his 2023 federal tax returns, presumptive Republican Donald Trump is again declining to release his. 04/15/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
Albany woman forced to return to work after surgery as Paid Leave Oregon benefits stall An Albany woman was forced to go back to work early due to the Oregon Employment Department’s Paid Leave Oregon program, which takes an average of 29 days to process. 04/15/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
Bidens Paid Nearly $150,000 in Federal Income Taxes in 2023 The president, first lady and vice president all released their latest returns on Tax Day; Trump hasn’t released his returns in the past. 04/15/2024 - 9:30 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to advance a bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. Several hardline Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, were opposed to the bill. Republicans may move to oust him as House Speaker for allowing the vote.
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Rare is the member of Congress who represents a district that voted for the other party’s nominee for President. Gerrymandering has rendered those political survivors harder to find than unicorns while reducing the truly competitive House districts to so few they fit on a single whiteboard in strategists’ offices.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Joe Biden.
Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
On Thursday night, two Democratic senators joined with the Senate Health and Human Service Committee’s three Republicans in voting to kill House Bill 1028, two weeks after it passed the House.