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DeSantis celebrates as most of his school board candidates win their Florida races
Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Most of the Florida school board candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis won their elections on Tuesday -- an indication...
Aug 24, 2022
Biden nominates Kim Cheatle to lead Secret Service
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kim Cheatle to lead the United States Secret Service, the White House announced. "Kim has had a long and dist...
Aug 24, 2022
Biden announces student loan forgiveness: Key things to know
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration is forgiving some student loan debt for U.S. borrowers and extending the federal st...
Aug 24, 2022
DOJ releases memo behind Barr's decision not to prosecute Trump for obstruction
Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Under order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department on Wednesday released a 2019 memo used by former Attorney General Wil...
Aug 24, 2022
Judge grants DOJ preliminary injunction in lawsuit against Idaho's near-total abortion ban
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge granted the Biden administration a preliminary injunction Wednesday in its lawsuit against a near-total ban on abortions in Idaho -- tem...
Aug 24, 2022
Biden student loan move shaped by intense political pressure, barrage of GOP criticism
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden's announcement Wednesday that he would cancel student loan debt for millions of Americans and extend a pandemic-era pause on repayments follow...
Aug 24, 2022
Across US, false accusations of election fraud prompt some election workers to quit ahead of Election Day
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After officials in Nye County, Nevada, accepted a pitch from a Republican nominee for secretary of state to stop using voting machines for the general elec...
Aug 24, 2022
Dr. Oz distances himself from his campaign's jab at John Fetterman's stroke
Nate Smallwood/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday tried to distance himself from an aide’s comment last week that appeared to ...
Aug 24, 2022
Democrat Pat Ryan wins potential bellwether House race in New York
adamkaz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Democrats are projected to win a special House election in New York on Tuesday in a race seen as a potential bellwether for this year's midterms, ABC News reports. Th...
Aug 24, 2022
Maxwell Frost on track to become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress
Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress(NEW YORK) -- Come January, 25-year-old Maxwell Frost will likely be the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. Frost is projected to win Florida's 10th ...
Aug 24, 2022
