U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he will make a decision on whether to forgive some federal student loan debt and announce his plans soon.

“They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom,” Biden told the teachers at the event.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was grilled by lawmakers in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill Wednesday. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president, reframed his official position on whether or not the United States is in the pandemic phase of its fight against COVID.

The U.N. Secretary-General traveled to Ukraine on Thursday, a day after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Yom HaShoah, better known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is being observed by many Jews and non-Jews around the globe today.

Newly published findings from a Morning Consult Political Intelligence Data poll found that 57% of West Virginia voters approve of Manchin’s job performance, a major leap from the senator’s 40% approval rating during the first quarter of 2021. 

The governors of 16 states have sent a letter to the White House opposing an executive order that they say would effectively allow unions a monopoly on federal projects.

The CDC estimates that the majority of Americans have had a prior COVID-19 infection. Researchers from the CDC conducted a study from September 2021 through February 2022 in which they analyzed blood samples for specific markers that indicate the antibodies were created from infection, not vaccination. 

Senate Republicans are warning their Democratic colleagues that they will block any effort to tie aid for Ukraine to the Biden administration’s stalled COVID-19 relief package, following reports that top Democrats were considering linking the two.