Politics

President Biden is issuing the first pardons and sentence commutations of his presidency Tuesday, to people convicted of non-violent offenses, senior administration officials told reporters on a call Monday. The White House announced the acts of clemency as the administration introduces a strategy and new funding to transition people from …

Student loan debt has forced many younger Americans to hold off on other major financial decisions, a new study finds. But despite the challenges, the vast majority said the debt would not have stopped them from pursuing higher education in hindsight.  Millions of Americans are burdened with student loans. It …

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a ban on transgender students playing girls’ sports on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican governor this week to overrule state lawmakers taking on youth sports amid broader culture wars as LGBTQ visibility grows. Leaders in the GOP-dominated Legislature, however, quickly called a veto override session …

The Federal Reserve announced it is raising interest rates on Wednesday — a move to combat soaring inflation as the U.S. comes out of the pandemic and economic uncertainty in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The quarter-point hike comes as prices have risen at their fastest pace in …

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a Guantanamo Bay detainee, the first prisoner in the CIA’s infamous “enhanced interrogation” program, who was seeking secret information shielded by the government about his treatment, including where his interrogations took place. In an opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, the …

The Biden administration is sending medical teams to six states in need of COVID-19 care and procuring an additional 500 million rapid tests, President Biden announced Thursday.  The new tranche of tests doubles the current 500 million at-home tests the administration is in the process of acquiring, bringing the total …

The second part of the “Red & Blue” interview with Raffensperger will air on CBSN at 5 p.m. Tuesday. George Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he wrote his new book “Integrity Counts” to “set the record straight” about what happened — and didn’t happen — during the contentious 2020 …

General Mark Milley, the nation’s top military officer, called China’s suspected test of a hypersonic weapons system “very concerning” and almost like a “Sputnik moment,” amid increasing tension between the U.S. and China.  Beijing is believed to have tested the weapons system during the summer, but neither the Defense Department …

President Joe Biden has signed a bill granting a short-term extension of the debt ceiling, the White House announced Thursday evening. The bill, which raises the debt limit by $480 billion, is expected to keep the federal government funded through early December. On Tuesday, the House passed the resolution along …

At least nine billion-dollar weather and climate disasters have hit the U.S. in 2021. Severe drought, flooding, hurricanes and a winter storm have killed more than 300 people, and last month’s Hurricane Ida left more than $50 billion of damage in its wake. On Monday, President Joe Biden called these …