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What Is the Higher Education Act? Biden to Try Canceling Student Loans Again.

By: Charlie Savage — June 30th 2023 at 22:40
Some advocates of the debt forgiveness wanted the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 from the beginning.
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Debt Ceiling Deal Would Reinstate Student Loan Payments

By: Michael D. Shear — June 1st 2023 at 03:04
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.

The debt ceiling legislation would end the pause on student loan payments on Aug. 30 at the latest.
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Bills DeSantis Signed Target Trans Rights, Abortion and Education in Florida

By: Neil Vigdor — May 24th 2023 at 21:55
Gov. Ron DeSantis ushered in a six-week abortion ban and curriculum restrictions, while expanding capital punishment and concealed carry access as he prepared to run for president.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida at a bill-signing event this month.
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In Howard Address, Biden Warns of ‘Sinister Forces’ Trying to Reverse Racial Progress

By: Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs — May 13th 2023 at 20:46
The president’s commencement address at Howard University, a historically Black institution, came as Democratic strategists have expressed concerns about muted enthusiasm for Mr. Biden among Black voters.

“Fearless progress toward justice often meets ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” President Biden told Howard University’s graduating class.
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Public Health Lessons Learned From the Coronavirus Pandemic

By: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland — May 11th 2023 at 09:00
The United States’ struggle to respond to the virus has highlighted the importance of communicating with the public, sharing data and stockpiling vital supplies.

Medical workers treating patients with Covid-19 at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in January 2022, when the Omicron wave was in full force.
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Biden Plan for Transgender Title IX Rules Began on Inauguration Day

By: Katie Rogers — April 8th 2023 at 02:44
Officials were working on a plan to protect transgender athletes since the day the president was sworn in. In recent months, they raced to issue protections as states moved to revoke them.

Demonstrators supporting trans rights in Washington last week.
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Biden Plan for Transgender Title IX Rules Began on Inauguration Day

By: Katie Rogers — April 8th 2023 at 02:44
Officials were working on a plan to protect transgender athletes since the day the president was sworn in. In recent months, they raced to issue protections as states moved to revoke them.
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Republicans Face Setbacks in Push to Tighten Voting Laws on College Campuses

By: Neil Vigdor — March 29th 2023 at 21:50
Party officials across the country have sought to erect more barriers for young voters, who tilt heavily Democratic, after several cycles in which their turnout surged.

Students walking between classes at the University of Idaho. The state will ban student ID cards as a form of voter identification, one of few successes for Republicans targeting young voters this year.
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House Republicans Pass ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ Act

By: Annie Karni — March 24th 2023 at 16:30
The legislation would require schools to obtain parental consent to honor a student’s request to change gender-identifying pronouns. Democrats said it would bring the conflicts over social issues to the classroom.
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House Republicans Pass ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ Act

By: Annie Karni — March 24th 2023 at 16:30
The legislation would require schools to obtain parental consent to honor a student’s request to change gender-identifying pronouns. Democrats said it would bring the conflicts over social issues to the classroom.

The bill passed by House Republicans has no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate but appeals to many of the party’s most conservative voters.
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House Republicans Prepare to Slash Spending in Budget Showdown

By: Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson — March 8th 2023 at 21:26
With Social Security and Medicare off the table, conservatives are focusing on a wide range of smaller programs as a clash with President Biden and Democrats looms.
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The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College

By: Charles Homans — March 6th 2023 at 23:11
G.O.P. activists set out to root out the “deep state” at home. An Idaho community college may never be the same.
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The Curious Rise of a Supreme Court Doctrine That Threatens Biden’s Agenda

By: Adam Liptak — March 6th 2023 at 18:39
The “major questions doctrine,” promoted by conservative commentators, is of recent vintage but has enormous power and may doom student loan relief and other programs.
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A Battle Over Murals Depicting Slavery

— March 3rd 2023 at 19:36
Reaction to a dispute between an artist and a Vermont school. Also: Corporal punishment; Ron DeSantis; caregivers; the Colorado River; guns and crime.
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Will the Supreme Court Let Biden Cancel Student Debt?

By: Sabrina Tavernise · Rikki Novetsky · Sydney Harper · Jessica Cheung · Marc Georges · Michael Benoist · Lexie Diao · Marion Lozano · Diane Wong and Chris Wood — March 2nd 2023 at 11:00
The justices are to rule on a program that seeks to wipe out billions of dollars of loans affecting some 40 million Americans.
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Student Loan Case Could Redefine Limits of Presidential Power

By: Michael D. Shear and Adam Liptak — March 2nd 2023 at 01:35
It is not the first time that the Supreme Court has suggested that President Biden has overstepped his authority, but the case could curtail his ambitions.
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How Liberal Campuses Are Pushing Freethinking Students to the Right

By: Adam S. Hoffman — March 1st 2023 at 18:48
No longer moderating influences, universities have become breeding grounds for conservative firebrands.
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Students Protest During Supreme Court Hearing on Debt Forgiveness

By: The Associated Press — February 28th 2023 at 23:10
Supporters of loan forgiveness rallied outside the Supreme Court while the justices heard arguments over President Biden’s effort to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student debt.
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What We’ve Learned From Presidential Physicals of Biden, Trump and Obama

By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs — February 16th 2023 at 00:58
President Biden will undergo a routine checkup on Thursday. Here’s what exams of Mr. Biden and past presidents have turned up.
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In Post-Roe World, These Conservatives Embrace New Benefits for Parents

By: Dana Goldstein — February 14th 2023 at 20:06
Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening.

“The work of the family is real work,” said Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar who calls herself a pro-life feminist and has written influential essays and books.
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