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Originally published on February 4, 2021 9:52 am Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. Shes a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico. Back then, she wasnt sure if it felt like college — but then again, she had nothing to compare it with. Now, shes about to. Spelman, like many colleges across the U.S., is beefing u...

By (Meredith Miotke for NPR) Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. She’s a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico. Back then, she wasn’t sure if it felt like college — but then again, she had nothing to compare it with. Now, she’s about to. Spelman, like many colleges across the U.S., is beefing up its in-per...

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Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images President Biden and Vice President Harris meet Monday evening in the Oval Office with 10 Republican senators, including Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to discuss COVID-19 relief proposals. Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images Updated at 4:08 p.m. ET The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 along party lines on Tuesday to advance a budget resolution,...

Checks May Go to Many High-Income Households: Stimulus Update Bloomberg 2/2/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg Runners with the Nassau County Department of Health prepare doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, on Jan. 30. (Bloomberg) -- The Senate on Tuesday began a process that would let Democrats pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus without Republican votes. A report showed that many well-off households woul...

Updated at 4:08 p.m. ET The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 along party lines on Tuesday to advance a budget resolution, setting up a lengthy push to approve $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief requested by President Biden. Republicans have already told Biden they wont go that big, but in an effort to seek bipartisanship, Biden had a group of 10 Republicans to the White House Monday. Ten is an important number, because its exactly the number of Republicans that Democrats would need to end a filibuster ...

Former Democratic staffer and cyber policy expert lands in DOD leadership defense (Getty Images) Feb 2, 2021 | FEDSCOOP Mieke Eoyang, a former senior congressional aide, will be a top cyber policy leader at Department of Defense. Eoyang tweeted Monday that she will be the deputy assistant secretary of Defense (DASD) for cyber policy, a high-ranking civilian position in setting security policy for DOD networks; strategizing, impl...

Joel Carillet/iStock Since the first days students returned to campuses in August, they’ve been getting in trouble. The University of Connecticut, days into the semester, sent several students home for partying during a mandatory quarantine. Over the course of the fall term, Ohio State University handed out more than 1,500 suspensions to students for breaking COVID-19 guidelines. It would seem easy to say that students don’t care about COVID-19 when they’re holding pool parties and rush e...

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Print this article President Bidens new executive order directing the Justice Department to phase out the use of private prisons targets only a small number of incarcerated people in the United States, sidestepping a campaign promise around the use of privately run facilities for detained migrants. The Justice Department will no longer renew contracts with "privately operated criminal detention centers," according to the order, reversing a Trump administration directive that countered action p...