WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base. The order forces the divestment of property operated as a crypto mining facility near the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base. It also forces the removal of certain equipment
My concerns billowed last week as I read an assessment of the funds needed to build our carbon-free future, and to get us to a “net zero” world by 2050. According to the Carbon Policy Initiative, climate finance will need to rise to US$8.1 trillion to US$9 trillion by 2030 and to be sustained above
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will visit the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion high-tech data center that will create thousands of jobs, the White House said. The Microsoft facility in Racine County, in southeastern Wisconsin, will be built
In remarks regarding the growing unrest on college campuses nationwide last Thursday, President Biden denounced the violent acts associated with many of the demonstrations and the growing wave of antisemitism on college campuses. But, as the saying goes, talk is cheap. There’s one simple way to give his position teeth: Congress should enact legislation prohibiting
Politics By Victor Nava Published May 3, 2024, 11:11 p.m. ET Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced legislation on Friday that would prevent anti-Israel protesters from receiving student loan forgiveness if they are convicted of a crime stemming from campus demonstrations. The Arkansas Republican’s No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, which is co-sponsored by 18 other
President Biden approves over $6 billion in student loan discharge (Photo/Sacramento Bee) By Karen Stokes The Biden-Harris Administration announced an additional over $6 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes, on or after Jan. 1, 2004, through Oct. 16, 2017. A higher-ed entity that knowingly defrauded its enrollees over
Millions of student loan borrowers no longer will be able to get their debts forgiven under President Joe Biden‘s administration beginning May 1. Public service workers, including teachers and nurses, were able to get their debts cleared under specific Department of Education (DOE) rules, but that is no longer the case as of today. The
Flag of Missouri. (NA) Last Friday, I wrote about the new lawsuit filed by eleven red states challenging President Biden’s new massive student loan forgiveness program. As I noted in that post, this case in many ways resembles Biden v. Nebraska, the 2023 case in which the Supreme Court invalidated the administration’s previous gigantic loan