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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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Washington — President Biden said Wednesday he is taking action to cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of Americans and an additional $10,000 for low-income borrowers while extending a pause on monthly payments, delivering long-awaited relief just weeks before the midterm elections.
Panel: Trump staffers pushed unproven COVID treatment at FDA
A special House panel looking into the government's coronavirus response says the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing the drug hydroxychloroquine that had been discredited as a COVID-19 treatment.
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Biden says resuming student loan payments will prevent handout from having a 'meaningful impact on inflation'
President Biden Wednesday claimed his student loan handout would not add to inflation, despite its potential cost of $300 billion
Student loan forgiveness could help more than 40 million
More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under President Joe Biden’s long-awaited forgiveness plan.
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Democrats cheer Biden's student loan relief plan as Republicans call it 'unfair'
Though many Democrats wanted President Biden to cancel more student debt, they largely rallied around his plan, as Republicans warned of inflation and called it a "handout."
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Biden's student loan forgiveness policy: How to apply, who qualifies, more
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a sweeping policy to cancel student loan debt: Who qualifies, how much loan debt will be canceled and where to apply
Memo sheds light on decision to clear Trump in Russia probe
Justice Department officials who evaluated then-President Donald Trump’s actions during the Russia investigation concluded that nothing he did, including firing the FBI director, rose to the level of obstruction of justice.
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Unredacted Barr memo details DOJ rationale for not charging Trump
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday released an unredacted version of a memo prepared for former Attorney General William Barr that he used to justify his decision to not indict then-Presi…
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Government lawyers advised Barr not to bring obstruction charges against Trump after Mueller report, newly-released memo reveals
Mueller felt he could not to reach a conclusion as to whether the then-president might have obstructed the investigation, leaving the decision on obstruction charges to the Justice Department.
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Uvalde school police chief fired for response to shooting
The Uvalde school district’s embattled police chief has been fired following allegations that he made several critical mistakes during a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
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Gen Z candidate will win Democratic nomination in Florida's 10th District, CNN projects | CNN Politics
Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old community organizer, will win the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, CNN projects, and could become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress.
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Trump calls for McConnell to be ousted as GOP leader ‘immediately’
Former President Trump on Wednesday called on Republicans to boot Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his post as Senate minority leader, accusing the senator of being a “pawn for the Democrats…
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Russia's Duma Council holding first emergency meeting since Ukraine invasion began
The Council of the Russian State Duma will meet in an extraordinary session on Thursday, the first such meeting since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, to discuss the situation at the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russia’s lower parliamentary...
www.washingtonexaminer.comTucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Rage Against ‘Suicidal’ Student Loan Forgiveness on Fox News
Fox NewsPresident Joe Biden’s announcement Wednesday that he was making good on a campaign pledge to cancel some student loan debt was met with disdain from Fox News’ most-watched primetime hosts, with Tucker Carlson, for instance, deriding the move as “suicidal.”“If you wanted to improve the...
Mueller prosecutor reacts to 'shocking' unredacted Barr memo on Trump obstruction
A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller called a Justice Department memo supporting Attorney General William Barr‘s decision not to prosecute former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation a “shocking” document. Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice...
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Biden administration crackdown on 'ghost guns' takes effect
The Department of Justice announced that a new federal rule designed to crack down on “ghost guns," or privately assembled firearms, took effect on Wednesday.
Georgia police respond to Marjorie Taylor Greene's home after swatting call
The person who made the call said they were upset over the Republican congresswoman's views on "transgender youth rights," police said.
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Russian attack kills 22 on Ukraine's Independence Day; US pledges nearly $3B in new military aid: Aug. 24 recap
The White House said the $2.98 billion will provide weapons and equipment to ensure it can continue to defend itself over the long term.
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Trump Flouted Rules About Presidential Records. That's Not How It Usually Works.
WASHINGTON — For the three years that former President Barack Obama wrote his 768-page memoir after leaving the White House, the millions of pages of his official presidential records were locked away in warehouses in Washington and Chicago. Each time Obama wanted to review something, his aides...
Feds arrest five members of 'B Squad' militia allegedly run by former GOP House candidate in Jan. 6 case
The Three Percenters subgroup is associated with Jeremy Liggett, who was briefly a Republican candidate for a House seat in Florida.
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22 reported killed in Independence Day attack in Ukraine
Ukraine’s president says Russian forces have launched a rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine on the country’s Independence Day, killing 22 people.
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Biden announces student loan forgiveness: 9 things to know
President Biden announced a new student loan forgiveness plan for Americans on Wednesday.
Pelosi takes victory lap after New York special election win: 'We don't agonize. We organize'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) celebrated Democrat Pat Ryan’s win in New York’s 19th District special election, a race Republicans were expected to win. Pelosi said on Wednesday her party’s superior organizing enabled Ryan, a veteran and Ulster County executive, to win against the...
www.washingtonexaminer.comCalifornia ballot measure to guarantee right to abortion has strong support among voters, poll finds
More than 80 percent say abortion is an important issue to them as November election looms.
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Three more GOP-led states enact abortion 'trigger laws'
Three more Republican-led states banned almost all abortions this week. It's another result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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