White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters and answer their questions Monday. The briefing comes as President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have seen increasing calls for a Gaza cease-fire in recent days, even as their positions have in some ways diverged. The Biden administration has urged the Israeli leadership not...
The House 0f Representatives recently passed a bill calling for federal government agencies to report office space usage and give up any office space where they have less than 60 percent occupancy. While it appears to be perfectly logical to make the federal government give up space it’s not using, the bill actually represents the...
The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel for commercially essential vessels near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, officials said Sunday. “This will mark an important first step along the road to reopening the port of Baltimore,” Coast Guard Capt. David O’Connell, the federal on-scene coordinator for the...
The Settlement Administrator Angeion Group announced Friday a proposed settlement with several U.S. colleges and universities over alleged deceptive tactics in giving out financial aid. The preliminary proposal includes ten schools in one case and and 17 in a second. The schools include big names such as Yale University, John Hopkins University and the...
Microsoft will begin selling its Teams video conferencing app separate from its Office software globally after making the change in Europe in August, the company announced Monday. Microsoft 365 and Office 365 will offer suites that do not include Teams and a stand-alone version of Teams to customers globally, the company said in a...
A former Defense Department investigator told CBS News's "60 Minutes" that he believes Russia is behind the mysterious attacks on U.S. personnel across the world known as "Havana syndrome." Greg Edgreen, a retired Army colonel, told the network there was consistently a "Russia nexus" during his time running the investigation into Havana syndrome, including from...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said antisemitic vandalism has “no place” in Pennsylvania, after a synagogue was spray-painted with a red swastika on Saturday night. “This is the second message I’ve written like this in as many days. It’s two too many. Antisemitism and the vandalism of a house of worship of any kind have...
Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza's largest hospital on Monday following a two-week raid and massive anti-government protests calling for Israeli leaders to reach a cease-fire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Israeli military said about 200 militants were killed in the raid of Shifa Hospital and about 900 other suspected militants were detained, describing...
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) on Sunday said "families should always be off-limits" after former President Trump lashed out at the daughter of the Manhattan judge overseeing his hush money trial When asked on CNN's "State of the Union" if Trump's recent attacks against the judge, the judge's daughter and President Biden crossed a line,...
Chinese-backed investors prioritize immediate and subsidized production using well-established technology and backing off from more costly, environmentally-friendly technology.
Nearly three years after Biden signed ARP, students still aren’t caught up, despite a federal windfall. Indeed, academic recovery hasn’t been a priority for many public schools across the country.
