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President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington.

Student loan forgiveness backers warn President Joe Biden ‘failure isn’t an option’

June 27, 2023 at 7:35 a.m.

Advocates of student debt relief want President Joe Biden to use a 1965 law to cancel student debt if the Supreme Court overturns his loan forgiveness program. Biden's current plan...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer arrives at a news conference April 5, 2020, outside his home in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Schumer and other Senate Democrats are proposing hazard pay and a death benefit for essential workers during the coronavirus crisis.

Senate Democrats want to issue ‘hazard pay’ of up to $25K to grocery cashiers, transit operators and other essential workers

April 7, 2020 at 3:02 p.m.

Senate Democrats are proposing giving hazard pay of up to $25,000 each for workers including grocery store employees, transit workers and pharmacists who are risking their lives to stay on...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to the Senate Chamber to attend President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Here are the next steps in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial

January 28, 2020 at 7:36 p.m.

The conclusion of Donald Trump's defense brings the president's impeachment trial closer to the only unknown variables — senator questions and possible witness testimony — moving past a process that...

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