The Department of Education announced on Thursday the 2025-2026 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms are officially available for all students and families, 10 days ahead of schedule following last year's chaotic rollout of the revamped forms. The department originally expected to launch the FAFSA forms on Dec. 1 after beta testing that started...
Ukrainians' approval of President Volodymyr Zelensky and their national government has dropped more than 15 percentage points since 2023, a new Gallup survey revealed. The drop marks the lowest support for Zelensky since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, though it's still higher than his approval ratings in 2020 and 2021, which sat at 41...
Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank, and its subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday, making it the largest bank not already targeted as the Russia-Ukraine war nears its three years mark. The new sanctions are part of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and is targeting more than 50 “internationally connected” Russian...
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," says she did not anticipate the severity of the controversy sparked by a meeting she and her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough had with President-elect Trump late last week. "I’ve been surprised at the backlash," Brzezinski said during a podcast conversation with The Daily Beast. "And the way...
Rescuing our Afghan partners will fulfill our sacred promise, taking seriously the terrorist threats from Afghanistan will keep us safe, and closing Guantanamo will end a shameful chapter.
Former President Clinton suggested that Democrats need to find a better way to relate to people, as the party searches for answers amid Republicans securing control of the House, Senate and White House. "Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything. You know, and I think that's...
Pertussis – a disease commonly referred to as whooping cough – is spreading quickly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. The U.S. has seen five times more cases in 2024 than we did at this time last year.
Frozen potato producers are the target of multiple new federal lawsuits alleging that companies have been coordinating their prices through third-party data providers to form a “potato cartel.” Companies including Cavendish Farms, McCain Foods, JRS, and Lamb Weston, as well as the National Potato Promotion Board, conspired “to raise, stabilize, fix [or] otherwise manipulate the...
President-elect Trump's NATO and European foreign policy will focus on modernizing the alliance, increasing defense spending, and strengthening partnerships with non-NATO partners, while navigating the political landscape of Congress and the transatlantic security cooperation.