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As the Biden administration’s plan to erase more than $400 billion in federal student loan debt failed at the U.S. Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans are saying they have an answer to help with the looming student loan default crisis. To fulfill his campaign promise, President Joe Biden has pledged that he will still push through a blanket student...

Meta’s newly launched Twitter rival, “Threads,” is facing criticism from users due to the app’s restrictions on deleting accounts. “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account,” says the app’s supplemental privacy policy. To create a Threads account, users have to sign in with their Instagram...

Commentary Twenty-five years ago I was a lab technician at a major medical research university. I finally got to be involved in immunology research, and I was very excited to have a great opportunity less than two years out of college. I didn’t really know what to expect, not having experience with a cutthroat research environment. I had no one...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has ditched plans to pursue a $100 million private school voucher program in the state’s annual spending plan amid a deadlock between Republican and Democratic leaders. Mr. Shapiro announced the decision to pull the program to pay for tuition at private and religious schools—known as the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success scholarship program—in a July 5 statement. His...

Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to block the current administration’s student loan forgiveness proposal, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pursue different avenues to offer relief to millions of borrowers. “I’m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale,” Mr. Biden said in a...

Six tech companies have informed the European Commission that they met the criteria to be classified as “gatekeepers” under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung now meet the thresholds under EU law after the passage of the new act, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on July 4. “Following our review process, official designation will...

Commentary Hillary Clinton famously said it takes a village to raise a child. Was she right? It depends on what we mean by village. On one hand, children benefit from the support of a broader community, particularly at school. Most parents appreciate it when teachers help their children acquire the knowledge and skills that they need now and in the...

President Joe Biden welcomed Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to the White House on July 5 to voice support for the Nordic country’s NATO membership ahead of the military alliance’s historic summit next week. Sweden has expressed a strong desire to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), citing increased security concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. However, Hungary...

“It becomes scarier the more you learn about it and the more new studies are coming up. Instead of making it better, every new study demonstrates some new alarming outcome.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mobeen Syed, also known as DrBeen, noticed there was a lack of unbiased, accessible information about both the virus and the vaccine. Using his skills...

Federal Reserve economists still expect a recession starting later this year, according to minutes from the June Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meetings. The economic forecast put together by staff at the policy meeting “continued to assume that the effects of the expected further tightening in bank credit conditions, amid already tight financial conditions” would trigger a “mild recession”...

Commentary Canada is seen by many as a refuge. A refuge for those escaping regimes where their opinions or missions are seen as inconsistent with the types of societies those regimes try to impose on their populations. In these nations, there is one way, and only one way, of doing things. You either acquiesce or you get out (a third...

An Oregon law that forbids recording in public without consent runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, a U.S. court has ruled. Oregon law 165.540, first enacted in 1955 and subsequently broadened to bar secret recording of conversations, is unconstitutional, Judge Sandra Ikuta, a George W. Bush appointee writing for the majority in the 2–1 ruling, said. Exceptions to the...

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday wrote in a tweet a defense of the temporary cap announced on July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertizing has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy criticism from users and marketing professionals. Ms. Yaccarino wrote in her tweet:...

President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson and Utah Solicitor General Melissa Holyoak to serve as Republican commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The White House announced the GOP nominations—part of a longstanding practice to include bipartisan membership—in a July 3 press release. Senate lawmakers will need to vote to confirm Biden’s nominees for the FTC...

Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has said that social media companies haven’t been as cooperative as they could have in addressing the fentanyl crisis. “We have not until recently gotten nearly as much cooperation as we need,” she said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Social media companies have to comply with...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Joko Widodo jointly denounced Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, noting its effects on the global economy through inflation, disrupted supply chains, and worsening food insecurity. Mr. Albanese welcomed Mr. Widodo to Australia on July 4 during the annual Australia-Indonesia leaders’ meeting in Sydney, where they deepened links between both nations. In a joint...

URBANDALE, Iowa—Urbandale, population 46,000, is a slice of Americana nestled against the west side of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. Despite being part of a metropolitan area of 700,000, Urbandale retains a small-town atmosphere. The city has suburbanized without becoming bougie, lending it a charm reminiscent of earlier days. That America-then feel combined with what locals proclaim is the...

Commentary Canada’s federal government has cheerfully proclaimed June to September to be Pride Season. Beyond the commonplace vulgarity in pride parades, one reasonably perceives a push to include new identities. And generous Canadians are inclusive. But a push for inclusion is a push for power, and that makes inclusion a complex political beast. For starters, unless every person is included, any...

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has just heated up as Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has teased that it’s launching a platform to rival Twitter. Called “Threads,” the Meta-backed microblogging platform is billed as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” according to a listing on Apple’s App Store. The listing indicates that Threads will released on Thursday,...

WASHINGTON—Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch. In the middle of the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sailing to Hawaii on a fishing and working vacation. It’s also been a day for some...