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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) scrapped another Trump-era policy on student loans, enabling state governments to resume oversight of loan servicers on behalf of borrowers within their borders. In March 2018, the ED under former Education Secretary Betsy Devos posted a legal interpretation on the Federal Register — a publication kept by the federal government about proposed rules and public notices — that effectively blocked state governments and attorneys general from taking… Source link

The New York Times Prosecutors Investigating Whether Ukrainians Meddled in 2020 Election Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether several Ukrainian officials helped orchestrate a wide-ranging plan to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using Rudy Giuliani to spread their misleading claims about President Joe Biden and tilt the election in Donald Trump’s favor, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The criminal investigation, which began… Source link

The Guardian Covid has killed 500,000 in the US. That’s more than the population of Miami This tragedy was preventable. It happened because Republican politicians believe some people are worth more than others ‘Coronavirus is different, generating neither equal suffering nor equal concern.’ Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Five hundred thousand deaths can be hard to picture. But we have to try. Imagine, for instance, that everyone in Miami, Colorado Springs or Minneapolis died in the course… Source link