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Unions demand Biden cancel student debt for public service workers POLITICO 1 day ago © Mark Wilson/Getty Images Joe Biden speaks at a National Education Association event. Labor unions are making a new push to get the Education Department to use executive action to forgive the student loans of Americans working in public service jobs — the latest pressure from the left for the Biden administration to act more aggressively on student debt relief. A wide range of unions representing teachers, fire fighters, health care workers and government employees on Thursday called on Education Sec...

Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a first step toward reversing a contentious Trump administration policy, President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to review federal rules guiding colleges in their handling of campus sexual assaults. In an executive order, Biden directed the U.S. Department of Education to examine rules that the Trump administration issued around Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in education. Biden directed the agency to “consider suspending, revising or rescinding” any policies that fail to protect students. The directive was exp...

6 shares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads the vote to approve a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON (AP) — A US Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation. The House gave final congressional approval to the sweeping package by a near party line 220-211 vot...

The Biden Administration’s Attack on Justice March 8 is International Women’s Day (a “holiday” originally brought to you by socialists in the early twentieth century) and it often prompts politicians to say and do silly, symbolic things. Alas, President Joe Biden is no different. Unfortunately, his supposed efforts to help women will end up harming everyone who cares about due process and the presumption of innocence. Biden has already received criticisms for the high number of Executive Orders (EO) he has issued since assuming the presidency but seems not to have heeded any of them. ...

Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: Eddie Edwards was confirmed as assistant commissioner for the NH Department of Safety. File Photo/Andrew Sylvia CONCORD, NH – Former congressional candidate Eddie Edwards of Dover was unanimously confirmed as assistant commissioner of the Department of Safety and Gov. Chris Sununu formally nominated his chief legal counsel, John Formella of Portsmouth, to be the next attorney general at the Executive Council meeting Wednesday. The Council also voted 4-1 to confirm McKenzie Snow of Washington, D.C., who formerly worked in the Presiden...