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'You are now $10,000 poorer than you were yesterday': Fury meets SCOTUS' student loan ruling

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Education Department from canceling up to $ 20,000 per person of student debt in a major defeat for President Joe Biden's agenda as he runs for reelection.

The program has been blocked since October when the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary hold in October.

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Conservative publication shreds GOP tax plan that 'absurdly punishes marriage'

House Republicans are advancing a bill that would create new tax penalties for marriage, warned Bradford Wilcox in an op-ed for the conservative Washington Examiner on Friday.

This comes, Wilcox warned, as Pew Research Center data reveals 1 in 4 Americans under 40 have never been married as of two years ago, a record high.

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Giuliani 'has every incentive to spill his guts' in Jan. 6 case against Trump: ex-federal prosecutor

Rudy Giuliani could prove to be a powerful witness against Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 case, and a former federal prosecutor said he had strongly compelling reasons to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith.

The former president has already been indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and he could face similar charges in New Jersey, but The Bulwark columnist Dennis Aftergut said Trump suddenly faces a gathering threat of indictment for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss after Giuliani reportedly made a "proffer" for testimony in that investigation.

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In San Francisco, African Americans' calls for reparations surge

Lynette Mackey stands in front of her family's former Victorian home in San Francisco's Fillmore district, a onetime vibrant neighborhood that drew touring jazz greats.

But these days, Black Americans like Mackey feel displaced from Fillmore, once dubbed the "Harlem of the West," by urban renewal and public policies.

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US targets China over semiconductors

(Reuters) -U.S.-China tensions over semiconductors began with theTrump administration's trade war and have ratcheted up under President Joe Biden's leadership as Washington looks to undercut Beijing's efforts to build its high-tech industry. The U.S. and the Netherlands are set to deliver a one-two punch to China's chipmakers by further curbing sales of chipmaking equipment, including some from Dutch firm ASML, the global leader in the critical process of lithography, Reuters reported on Thursday. Here is a timeline of U.S. actions against China's chip industry: October 2018: Former U.S. Pres...

Rick Wilson slams No Labels for calling Donald Trump a ‘problem solver’

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson on Thursday slammed No Labels over the ostensibly centrist group’s recent characterization of Donald Trump as a “problem solver.”

The Lincoln Project co-founder during an episode of “ The Breakdown” urged voters not to take at face value No Labels’ claim that it’s working to push back against hyperpartisanship by running centrist candidates.

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How Biden secretly prepared for Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling

President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court's ruling doing away with race-based affirmative action programs at universities, saying that "this is not a normal court" and accusing the right-wing majority of working to strip Americans of their rights.

But according to CNN, he had been expecting this outcome for months, and was preparing — drafting new guidelines for college admissions that intended to preserve equal opportunity for underprivileged groups without direct consideration of race.

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Maddow hails Biden's ability to stay out of the gutter despite GOP authoritarian fear

MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Joy Ann Reid appeared on "Deadline White House" Thursday following an interview with President Joe Biden.

In the analysis after the interview, host Nicolle Wallace marveled at Biden's willingness to keep calm and carry on when it comes to democracy and the American people. It is the kind of faith that the hosts all argued they're not sure they share.

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Biden says 6 Republicans came to him saying they're with him on issues — but scared of GOP primaries

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline White House" Thursday, President Joe Biden was finishing up after chatting about the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Wallace, who served in the George W. Bush administration, left to work on McCain's campaign in 2008.

The two reminisced about their memories of him and that he was a Republican from a different time. The two shook hands to signal the end of the interview, but it prompted Biden to start talking about the new world of the GOP, which Wallace left several years ago.

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Jamie Raskin shares testimony that apparently destroys James Comer's Joe Biden bribery conspiracy

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) issued a letter Thursday to House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) debunking the claim the Republican has spent the past six months making that President Joe Biden is linked to a Ukraine bribery scheme involving his son.

Raskin, who serves as the ranking member on the Oversight Committee, confirmed previous Raw Story reporting that Rudy Giuliani was likely the source of a tip given to the FBI that became a central focus of Comer's probe which attempted to link the Bidens to bribery payments made by Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian founder of oil and gas company Burisma holdings.

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Former GOP congressman shames colleagues for taking credit for funding they opposed

After President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law in 2021, the White House says it has distributed around of $42 billion across America to expand internet access to rural and isolated communities and fund roads and bridges, public transit, water infrastructure, power grids, and airports.

Republicans who voted in favor of the bill at the time were attacked by members of their own party. As Newsweek points out, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even called them "traitors."

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Trump-indicting Florida grand jury may not be done – and it's still issuing subpoenas: NYT

The Florida grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump hasn't finished its work, thus raising the possibility that even more criminal charges could be coming.

The New York Times reports that the grand jury that indicted Trump earlier this month has continued issuing subpoenas to witnesses even after the indictment was unsealed.

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'Republican buffoonery': Democrats betting GOP's impeachment 'charade' will backfire

Republicans are gearing up for possible impeachment inquiries of top administration officials and possibly even President Joe Biden himself, but a report Thursday claims Democrats are confident those efforts will backfire.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has warmed to the idea of impeachment for Attorney General Merrick Garland, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and possibly the president, but Democratic groups have already started working on a political defense response, reported The Daily Beast.

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