#Could a Trump holdover save the Biden presidency?

#Could a Trump holdover save the Biden presidency?

A key holdover from the Trump presidency could give President Biden a huge boost as he seeks reelection. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell looks to be on the cusp of pulling off a “soft landing” of the economy, after inflation roared to a four-decade high last year. The Fed’s series of interest rate increases, which…

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#Retribution, isolation and deportation: What to expect from a second Trump term

#Retribution, isolation and deportation: What to expect from a second Trump term

Less than two months out from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump seems well on his way to securing a third consecutive Republican nomination for president.  And, with public polling increasingly showing Trump leading President Biden — including by 6 points (53 percent to 47 percent) per a recent Messenger/Harris X poll — the question…

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#Schools ramp up battle against chronic absenteeism

#Schools ramp up battle against chronic absenteeism

Schools are stepping up efforts to combat chronic absenteeism, a major factor in plummeting test scores and other problems educators have faced with students since the pandemic.  Chronic absenteeism — commonly defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days — has affected millions of students and caught the attention of the White House,…

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#‘A thousand points of light’ strategy is needed for climate-change medicine

#‘A thousand points of light’ strategy is needed for climate-change medicine

The World Health Organization now characterizes climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity. So just how worried should we be? Climate effects on health are already apparent. They are varied, potentially severe and incompletely understood. On a global scale, about 30 percent of the human population already lives in areas where temperatures and humidity lead…

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#Santos says he’ll stand for expulsion vote

#Santos says he’ll stand for expulsion vote

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Monday said he will stand for a likely third vote on his expulsion from Congress in the wake of a scathing House ethics report detailing alleged violations of federal crimes. “Setting the record straight, My conversation with the speaker was positive and I told him id be standing for the…

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#Senate Democrats shoot down Biden naysayers in party 

#Senate Democrats shoot down Biden naysayers in party 

Senate Democrats are pushing back hard on criticism from within their own party that President Biden’s poll numbers are so weak that the party should replace him atop the ticket, dismissing concerns about Biden’s electability as totally counterproductive.   Some of the sharpest criticism of Biden’s electability has come from former President Obama’s senior political…

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