Top 5 questions surrounding Biden student debt relief fight at Supreme Court
President Biden’s student loan plan will get its final shot at victory Tuesday at the Supreme Court when the majority-conservative court prepares to hear arguments that will determine the fate of up to $20,000 in debt relief for millions of Americans. The showdown between the Biden administration and the two groups of challengers to the president’s plan has been building for months, with many protesters having camped outside the court ahead of today’s session, which begins at 10 a.m. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar in back-to-back oral arguments will atte
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A Fox News survey showing former President Trump leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 15 points among Republican presidential primary voters is the latest cause for heartburn among Senate Republicans who don't think Trump can win a general election match-up against President Biden. Predictions by key Senate Republicans that Trump would fade as the 2024 election approached are being upended, putting pressure on party leaders in Washington to consider embracing the former president once again. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other
Read MoreFive takeaways from the big COVID-19 'lab leak' story
The tangled story of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a new twist. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department of Energy had shifted its position, now holding that the most likely source of the virus was a laboratory mishap, presumably in Wuhan, China — the so-called “lab leak theory.” The department reportedly only has “low confidence” in the finding. But the new position is still a major development, especially on a topic so politically loaded as the origins of the pandemic. Here are the major takeaways from the new
Read MoreTensions rise as Supreme Court prepares for high-stakes student debt clash
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Read MoreCOVID origin report reignites firestorm over ‘lab leak’ theory
A new federal assessment saying a lab leak was the likely origin of COVID-19 is feeding new oxygen into Republican calls for further investigations, even as scientists and the intelligence community say the issue is still far from resolved. In the wake of a Wall Street Journal report published over the weekend on an Energy Department conclusion that COVID-19 most likely came from a lab leak in China, Republicans claimed vindication. "Senator Tom Cotton deserves an apology," the Republican National Committee tweeted Monday. In February 2020, Cotton (
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