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Jul 17 2023
Headline Roundup
The Legal Logic Behind Biden's New Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
President Joe Biden’s new student debt relief initiative relies on authority given by the 1965 Higher Education Act. Will this program fare better than Biden’s previous effort to forgive student debt?
The Act: The Higher Education Act, established under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, includes a provision that allows the Education Secretary to “compromise, waive, or release any
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Washington Examiner 
ABC News (Online) 
Aug 12 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Trump's COVID-19 Executive Actions
Perspectives across all sides of the political spectrum are split regarding the executive actions for economic relief that President Donald Trump signed on Saturday. With four different signings, the president moved to extend unemployment benefits, suspend the payroll tax for many workers, create an eviction moratorium and suspend federal student loan payments through the end of the year.
Los Angeles Times
National Review (News)
Washington Post
Nov 06 2022
Headline Roundup
Countries Balance Climate Pledges with Economic Strains at COP27
COP27, a two-week-long summit to address global climate change reduction efforts, kicked off in Egypt this weekend. The summit includes 198 countries signed onto the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. This focal point of this summit is expected to be financing environmental protection efforts in the midst of a number of global economic strains, from rising energy costs stemming from
MarketWatch
NPR (Online News)
Breitbart News 
Aug 10 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: A Potential Eviction Crisis in America
According to a National Low Income Housing Coalition report released Friday, 30-40 million people in the United States are at risk of eviction, a trend that disproportionately affects black and Hispanic communities. Many eviction moratoriums, implemented by local governments and the CARES Act during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, have expired. On Saturday, President Donald Trump directed
Bloomberg
Washington Examiner
New York Times (Opinion) 
Jul 30 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Record Quarterly Drop in GDP Drives Economic Speculation, Stimulus Talks
U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) dropped at an annual rate of 32.9% in the second quarter of 2020, the largest such drop on record. Speculation soon followed about how the fall could impact the country's economic rebound from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and in a more immediate sense, could impact the November presidential election and ongoing negotiations between lawmakers about a
Forbes
Washington Examiner
Washington Post
Oct 07 2021
Headline Roundup
Pfizer Requests FDA Vaccine Authorization for Children 5 to 11
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that they had formally requested FDA emergency use authorization of their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The request comes roughly three weeks after Pfizer said a lower vaccine dose had proven safe and effective in clinical trials for that age group. The FDA has scheduled a meeting of its advisory board for Oct. 26 to consider the
New York Times (News)
NPR (Online News)
Fox News (Online News)
Oct 22 2022
Headline Roundup
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Paused by Appeals Court
President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is on hold until courts rule on the Republican opposition to the program. Borrowers are still able to apply for forgiveness through the application portal, studentaid.gov, but the disbursement process will not move forward until the freeze is ended.
Key Quotes: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre encouraged borrowers to
Reuters
The Guardian
Fox Business
Sep 22 2021
Headline Roundup
US to Donate 500 Million Additional Vaccine Doses to Other Countries
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. would purchase 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to other countries, bringing America’s total donation commitment to over 1.1 billion doses. The effort is motivated by Biden’s reported goal of fully vaccinating 70% of the world’s population within the next year. While the U.S. has fully vaccinated 55% of its
ABC News (Online)
BBC News
Washington Times
Mar 27 2020
Headline Roundup
The State of Coronavirus Testing in the US
The state of COVID-19 coronavirus testing in the United States has quickly become a politicized focal point, both for White House press briefings and media coverage. Roughly 0.2 percent of the U.S. population had been tested as of Friday.
News coverage from many media outlets has framed the state of coronavirus testing in the U.S. in a critical light. Some outlets focused on fact-
Washington Post
USA TODAY
Townhall
Jul 05 2023
Headline Roundup
Judge Says Biden Admin Can't Push Social Media Platforms to Delete Content
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Biden administration officials can't communicate with social media companies for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech."
The Details: Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Newsweek
The Daily Caller
New York Times (News)