The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for eight million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Miguel A. Cardona, the secretary of education, said on Friday. The proposal, which will almost certainly face legal challenges, builds on the administration’s strategy of finding …
Read More »Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance
Chinese hackers targeted data from phones used by former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging intelligence-collection effort, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Investigators are working to determine what communications data, if …
Read More »Biden Apologizes for U.S. Abuse of Indian Children, Calling It ‘a Sin on Our Soul’
President Biden ventured into Native American territory on Friday to offer a formal apology on behalf of the U.S. government for the mistreatment of generations of children who were taken away from their families in an effort to strip them of their culture, history and language. During a visit to …
Read More »The White House Bet Big on Intel. Will It Backfire?
At an annual gathering of tech executives and billionaires in Sun Valley, Idaho, this past July, Gina Raimondo commandeered a table near a duck pond and tried to exert her influence as the U.S. secretary of commerce to help rescue an ailing national champion. As media moguls and business luminaries …
Read More »How Two Allies Wrestled Over a Crypto Giant and a Prisoner
After eight months in custody in Nigeria, an American working for the cryptocurrency firm Binance is coming home, ailing but alive, in a case that had strained U.S. ties with one of Africa’s most influential countries. Tigran Gambaryan, a compliance officer for Binance, had been held on money-laundering charges as …
Read More »Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools
President Biden on Thursday signed the first national security memorandum detailing how the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and other national security institutions should use and protect artificial intelligence technology, putting “guardrails” on how such tools are employed in decisions varying from nuclear weapons to granting asylum. The new document is …
Read More »Biden to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools Where Hundreds of Children Died
President Biden on Friday will formally apologize for the role of the federal government in running boarding schools where thousands of Native American children faced abuse, neglect and the erasure of their tribal identities. “I’m heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago, to make …
Read More »Bots Linked to China Target Republican House and Senate Candidates, Microsoft Says
Dozens of inauthentic accounts on X linked to China have been assailing Republican members of Congress running for re-election in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas, accusing them of corruption and promoting their opponents, according to a report released on Wednesday by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center. Those targeted include Representatives Barry Moore …
Read More »Freshman Enrollment Appears to Decline for the First Time Since 2020
Freshman enrollment dropped more than 5 percent from last year at American colleges and universities, the largest decline since 2020 when Covid-19 and distance learning upended higher education, according to preliminary data released on Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit education group. The finding comes roughly …
Read More »Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control
The White House announced on Monday that it would propose new rules under the Affordable Care Act that would require insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control at no cost to patients, as it seeks to expand access to contraception and cut out-of-pocket costs. The rules would include emergency contraception, a …
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