In September of 2019, Bernie Sanders announced from the Democratic presidential primary debate stage that, if elected, he would “cancel all student debt in this country.” Elizabeth Warren made a similar proposal during her campaign, but the progressives’ plans to nullify the vast majority of student loan debt — $1.75 …
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s home was targeted in a “swatting” call for a second time in two nights, police in Rome, Georgia, confirmed on Thursday. “Officers responded once again to Mrs. Greene’s home and confirmed this was a second false report,” Rome PD said in a statement provided to Rolling …
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Two Floridians pleaded guilty in New York’s Southern District court to transporting the diary they stole from President Joe Biden‘s daughter Ashley in Florida shortly before the 2020 election to New York, where they were each paid $20,000 for it by the right-wing media group Project Veritas. Prosecutors said that …
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A federal judge has ruled that the Justice Department must release a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit authorizing the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate by noon on Friday. The DOJ on Thursday submitted its proposed redactions to Judge Bruce Reinhart, who a …
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In the weeks after the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, former President Donald Trump repeatedly made a simple-sounding but extraordinary ask: he wanted his lawyers to get “my documents” back from federal law enforcement. Trump wasn’t merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney-client material that he insists was scooped up by …
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Carl Paladino lost his bid for a congressional seat representing New York’s 23rd district Tuesday after being bested by opponent Nick Langworthy — but only by a small margin. Langworthy narrowly edged out his competitor by roughly three percentage points with 95% of precincts reported as of midnight. The race …
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SARASOTA, Florida —Bridget Ziegler hadn’t yet heard from Gov. Ron DeSantis after she won reelection to the Sarasota County school board race on Tuesday night, but she kept her phone close, just in case she did. Standing outside her victory party at a strip mall bar, her eyes flicked toward …
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California is expected to vote on Thursday to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. “The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The landmark move toward electric …
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President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive up to $10,000 of federal student debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, and an extension on loan payment deferments through December 31, 2023. Biden said in announcing the plan on Twitter that the move …
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Last Friday night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made a bold pitch for re-election to the voters of Pennsylvania. A couple hours later, he took the same stump to Ohio. Two days after that, on Sunday, he flew back to his home state – the only one in which he is …
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