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Biden administration scales back student loan forgiveness plan.
US President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday said that it will not cancel any student loan debt after an appeals court ordered a stay on the program. The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals on October 21 put the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan on administrative hold, which will last until January. Biden had announced…
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One of the ‘Citgo 6’ says it can be hard to return to everyday life after captivity.
US Congresswoman Jackson Lee said that American basketball team player Gary Griner’s welfare has to be reviewed after she was released from Russian jail. “I want to emphasise…it was a moral and policy obligation to bring people who are being held hostage home,” she added. US President Joe Biden had said that he hoped Russian…
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‘Politically homeless is not political Hopeless’ is an opinion.
A CNN-SSRS poll has found that Democratic candidates won outright among voters who somewhat disapproved of Joe Biden. In many races, Democrats won by a wide margin because voters who disapproved of Biden voted for them. Among those who align with the Democratic Party, 14% said the party needs to recruit younger candidates or do…
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Sometimes the government can get things right.
The US Department of Education will appeal a federal judge’s ruling blocking President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness programme, White House said. “We strongly disagree with the district court’s ruling on our student debt relief program,” Justice Department said in a statement. The lawsuit was brought by two individuals, who are not qualified for full…
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A US official says that the Paul Whelan talks are going to continue because Russians have things they want.
US Paul Whelan, the third American to be released by Russia, said he was surprised that he wasn’t included in the deal with Russian arms dealer Mikhail Bout. Whelan said he hopes that US Vice President Joe Biden and his administration would do everything they could to get him home, regardless of the “price they…
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An official of hostage affairs says that members of the crew returnedBrittney Griner to the US.
US resident Paul Whelan, who is being held in a prison colony in Russia, has said he was surprised he wasn’t included in the Bout swap. “It felt real the moment I was able to board the other plane…and tell her that on behalf of the President of the US, Joe Biden, and Secretary of…
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The woman was freed from a Russian prison.
US’ Vice President Joe Biden on Friday announced the release of a Russian basketball player Brittney Griner and said that he was on her way home after months of being wrongly held in Russia. “I’m overwhelmed with emotions,” Griner’s wife Cherelle said. Griner had arrived in the US in February to play in the Russian…
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The leaders retreated from raising the debt ceiling.
US Vice President Joe Biden has urged Congress to pass legislation to eliminate the federal debt ceiling by the end of this week. “We must raise the debt limit in a way that doesn’t add to the national debt,” he said. Earlier, the White House had said that the administration would consider using legal strategies…
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Biden calls the risk of Armageddon the highest it’s been since the Cuban missile crisis.
US Vice President Joe Biden has said that it’s not clear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. “We don’t have any information to cause us to change our strategic deterrence posture, and we don’t assess that President Putin has made a decision to use…
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Russia demanded that a spy held in Germany be freed.
US President Joe Biden said the government is in “close contact” with the family of Paul Whelan, an American man who has been detained in Russia since 2018. This comes after Russian authorities released American Brittney Griner and jailed Russian citizen Viktor Bout in a prisoner swap. The US is working to secure Whelan’s release,…
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Americans’ views of the state of the country are slightly better according to a CNN poll.
US President Joe Biden on Saturday urged Americans to vote in November’s elections and added that “nothing will create morechao or do more damage to the American economy”. “Nothing will create more chaos or do more damage to…US economy,” Biden added. Meanwhile, a CNN poll claimed that 74% Americans said their financial situation has worsened…
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Biden is going to bring Paul Whelan home from Russia.
US President Joe Biden said that Russia is treating Paul Whelan, a US citizen held in a Russian penal colony since 2014, differently than Brittney Griner, who was released on Thursday. Biden added that Russia’s accusation that Whelan was a spy made him higher up than the other two men released in April. “Sadly, Russia…
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Biden will bring Paul Whelan home from Russia at the same time.
Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores’ nephews and six Americans were released in a swap with Russia on Saturday, US President Joe Biden said. Two nephews of Cilia were released in exchange for detained Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. Meanwhile, US ex-Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained in 2018 in Russia on alleged espionage charges, was released…
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Can the leader of China deliver?
China’s President Xi Jinping has said the country’s political system is ” Chinese-style democracy”. This comes after he met US Vice President Joe Biden during the latter’s two-day visit to China. In a statement after his meeting with Biden, Xi described China’s governance system as “Chinese-style democracy”. The meeting was the first between the two…
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States went in different directions during the midterms.
US voters have elected Democratic President Joe Biden to his first four-year term in office, making him the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1996 to hold the office. Biden became the first US vice presidential candidate to win the presidency since Harry Truman in 1946. In 2020, Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee…
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Two rising stars show how to win in the GOP.
Former US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said he believed that President Donald Trump was “probably the worst President in American history”. He added that he also believes that Trump was “probably the greatest President in the history of American politics”. Biden’s comment came after Trump claimed he won the November 6 US presidential…
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Biden pledges the US will work with Asian nations.
US President Joe Biden has said that he has spent “more time with China’s President Xi Jinping than any other world leader”. “I think it’s more, how can we find ways to communicate about those issues where we have deep fundamental differences of perspective or concerns, but we need to be having continued and ongoing…
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There are three things Americans should learn from China.
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House wasn’t viewing the world “solely through the prism of strategic competition”, adding that Biden “made the Big Lie an article of faith in the MAGA Republican Party – a minority of that party”. Sullivan added that Biden raised North Korea, China and…
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US president’s past promises in meeting with China are under scrutiny.
US President Joe Biden brought up North Korea, China and other countries during his meeting with Asian leaders, the White House said. Biden raised concerns about the activities at Ream Naval Base, which is believed to be a joint venture between Cambodia and China, the White House added. He also raised concerns about activities at…
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Democrats retained control of the Senate after winning the Nevada seat.
Democrats are set to win the control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with Vice President Joe Biden predicting a victory that will be “historic”. It is the first time since 1964 that a political party has won the majority in the Senate after winning the presidential election. Republicans have held the Senate…
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Democrats shouldn’t underestimate the threat Trump poses.
Former US President Donald Trump, who lost to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the 2016 polls, is planning to run for President in 2024, CNN reported. Trump has been planning to launch his campaign on November 14, which is the date of the US presidential election, the report added. Trump had lost the 2016…
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Biden had a meeting with a Chinese leader.
Top officials from the US government and the Taliban met in-person in Afghanistan for the first time since the death of al-Qaedafounder Ayman al-Zawahiri, reports said on Sunday. The meeting came as US Vice President Joe Biden was in Cambodia for the East Asia Summit. Earlier, Biden urged Cambodian PM Hun Sen to “reopen civic…
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Korea gets squeezed between the US and China, which leads toYankees, Go Home!
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the US will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the ASEAN in its “struggle to achieve a peaceful future”. Biden’s statement came as he landed in Cambodia for the G20 summit. US and ASEAN have signed more than 200 bilateral agreements during Biden’s tenure, including agreements on trade…
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The group was prepared to stop the election if necessary, according to Oath Keeper.
A member of the militia group Oath Keepers testified that he packed his car full of weapons and travelled to Washington, DC, to stop Joe Biden from assuming the presidency “by any means necessary”. Jason Dolan’s testimony is crucial to the case as prosecutors try to establish that Oath Keepers are prepared to stop the…
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The Democratic Party and Joe Biden were not defeated during the last election.
Former US President Joe Biden, during a campaign stop, said, “This is going to be a very tough election.” His comments came as the US was set to hold the mid-terms elections on November 6. “There’s lots of uncertainty, but I’m optimistic that we’ll come back stronger than we were,” he added. “We’re going to…