Republicans are upping the pressure on colleagues in theSenateahead of next weeks impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.Housemanagers in the case will deliver the two articles ofimpeachmentto the upper chamber on Wednesday‚ nearly two months since the lower chamberimpeachedMayorkas.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)‚ who introduced impeachment articles against Mayorkas multiple times before House leadership moved...

Donald Trumpnext week is set to become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial - a case involvinghush money paidto porn star Stormy Daniels that carries major political and legal ramifications as he runs to regain the White House.The trial is scheduled to start in Manhattan on April 15. It is the first of four potential criminal trials Trump faces‚ but may be the only one to take place before theNov. 5 U.S. electionin which he is the Republican...

Janet Yellensaid Monday thatTikTokwas discussed ";briefly"; in meetings with her counterparts in China the latest sign that the prospect of a ban is rattling top officials in Beijing.Why it matters:A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pushing legislation recently passed by the House that would require the popular video app to be spun off from its parent company‚China-based ByteDance‚ or risk being banned.That possibility is the latest issue that...

Atotal solar eclipsecrosses North America today‚ with parts of 15 U.S. states within the path of totality. Maps showwhere and whenastronomy fans can seethe big eventas skies darken in the middle of the day on Monday‚ April 8.The total eclipse will first appear along Mexico';s Pacific Coast at around 11:07 a.m. PDT‚ then travel across a swath of the U.S.‚ from Texas to Maine‚ and into Canada.About 31.6 million people live in thepath of totality‚...

The Biden administration is proposing a sweepinginitiative to slash student debtfor nearly 30 million Americans‚ a plan likely to face legal challenges from Republicans who helped kill an earlier White House attempt at large-scale loan cancellation.The proposal‚ which President Biden is set to describe in a Monday speech in Wisconsin‚ marks a major new White House effort to appeal to progressives and young voters seven months before the November election‚ withpolls showing...

The Biden administration unveiled a new set of plans on Monday that would eliminate student debt for millions of Americans. The administration says that‚ if fully implemented‚ it would bring the number of borrowers who';ve seen some or all of their debt forgiven during the president';s term to more than 30 million.The new plan‚ aiming to supplant an earlier version that wasrejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in June‚ offers targeted relief to specific groups of borrowers‚ notably those...

President Biden will unveil yet another student loan handout plan on Monday in his ongoing attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court.The court has struck down multiple versions ofBiden';s plansfor a student loan bailout‚ and 11 Republican-led states filed a lawsuit against the version he announced in February. The new Biden plan is expected to affect up to 30 million Americans‚ who will see sizable portions of their student debt slashed before the November election‚ according to...

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