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Biden issues executive order cracking down on sales of Americans' personal data to China, Russia
President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aiming to better protect Americans’ personal data on everything from biometrics and health records to finances and geolocation from foreign adversaries like China and Russia.
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Biden admin announces ‘historic' $366 million funding for renewable energy projects in rural areas
The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable energy on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, the Biden administration announced on Tuesday.
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Emhoff to announce $1.7 billion in pledges to help Biden's goal of ending hunger by 2030
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is announcing $1.7 billion in commitments from more than 140 health systems, insurers and others to help President Joe Biden meet his goal of ending hunger by 2030.
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Biden administration looks to expand student loan forgiveness to those facing ‘hardship'
Several categories of borrowers are being targeted for relief under Biden’s second try at widespread cancellation after the Supreme Court rejected his first plan last year.
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White House to brief lawmakers on ‘serious national security threat' related to Russia
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders.
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First lady questions whether special counsel referenced son's death to score political points
First lady Jill Biden says she doesn’t know what a special counsel was trying to achieve when he suggested President Joe Biden could not remember when his oldest son died.
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Biden administration announces $5 billion investment in research and development of computer chips
The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $5 billion in a public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips.
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US rolls out visa restriction policy on people who abuse spyware to target journalists, activists
The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware.
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Biden marks 15th anniversary of landmark Equal Pay Act with more steps to help federal workers
President Joe Biden is marking the 15th anniversary of a landmark pay equity law with new steps to tackle persistent gaps in pay for federal government employees and those who work for federal contractors.
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Biden regulators target another type of ‘junk fee': Transaction declined fee
The CFPB’s proposal focuses on fees charged by banks for transactions that are declined in real-time due to lack of sufficient funds.
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John Kerry, the US climate envoy, to leave the Biden administration
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, is stepping down from the Biden administration in the coming weeks.
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Slowing inflation suggests that Biden's policies are helping, but American voters are still hurting
President Joe Biden can make an increasingly strong case that he’s helped fix inflation, if only he can get voters to believe him.
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Biden says Austin still has his confidence, but not revealing hospitalization was lapse in judgment
President Joe Biden says it was a lapse in judgment for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not to tell him about his hospitalization last week, but he still has confidence in the Pentagon chief.
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Biden administration awards $623 million in grants for nationwide EV charging network
The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation.
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Senior Biden leaders, Pentagon officials unaware for days that defense secretary was hospitalized
U.S. officials say that senior Biden administration leaders, members of Congress and top Pentagon officials were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday.
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Biden administration announces $162 million to expand computer chip factories in Colorado and Oregon
President Joe Biden’s administration is providing $162 million to Arizona high-tech manufacturer Microchip Technology to support the domestic production of computer chips.
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US frees Maduro ally for 10 Americans in prisoner swap with Venezuela
The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American.
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Latino Democrats shift from quiet concern to open opposition to Biden's concessions in border talks
Prominent Democratic Latinos in Congress quietly raised concerns at first about negotiations between the Biden administration and a group of senators over border security and asylum restrictions.
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Older Americans to pay less for some drug treatments as drugmakers penalized for big price jumps
Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year. The White House has unveiled a list of 48 drugs that drugmakers will have to pay rebates to the federal government on due to raising their prices higher than the cost of inflation during this year. These include drugs for chemotherapy treatments and...
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China's cooperation agreement expected to slow flow of fentanyl into US
China has agreed to curtail shipments of the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of the U.S. overdose epidemic.