Month: March 2025
March 04, 2025
Politics
Tariffs to spike prices on produce, electronics, gas and toys — with some hikes this week
Target CEO Brian Cornell was among the first to raise the alarm after the Trump administration on Tuesday levied 25% duties on products from Canada and Mexico, as well...
March 04, 2025
Congress
Energy and Commerce discusses next steps for Trump’s party-line bill
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have started holding meetings to discuss where to find savings within their panel’s purview to finance legislation to enact President Donald...
March 04, 2025
Health Care
Trump admin moves to drop fight over emergency abortions, reversing Biden admin stance
An Idaho hospital is stepping in to argue that the state’s near-total abortion ban violates patients’ rights. An Idaho hospital is stepping in to argue that the state’s near-total...
March 04, 2025
Education
‘His legacy lives on’: UM student honored on anniversary of fatal scooter crash
Friends and family of Daniel “Danny” Bishop gathered at the University of Miami on Tuesday to honor his memory, unveiling a bench and plaque bearing his name on the...
March 04, 2025
Health Care
Democrats’ Medicaid strategy gets a reboot after GOP cancels town halls
The outside group Indivisible said Democrats should hold their own town halls — and if Dems don't, they'll hold their own. The outside group Indivisible said Democrats should hold...
March 04, 2025
Politics
Top Trump defense policy pick Elbridge Colby calls Iran nuclear threat ‘existential’ in confirmation hearing
Elbridge Colby had said in 2012 that the only thing worse than a nuclear Iran 'would be consequences of using force to try to stop them.' Elbridge Colby had...
March 04, 2025
Congress
Republicans risk hard-liner revolt in latest gambit to avoid a shutdown
Should Republican leaders have to abandon their current plan to pass a government funding bill at "flat" levels, hard-liners warn that another fiscal framework is at risk: the budget...
March 04, 2025
Congress
GOP stopgap holdouts will ‘get on board,’ Johnson says
Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged several GOP lawmakers have "hesitation" over backing the six-month extension of government funding that he and President Donald Trump are pushing ahead of a Friday...
March 04, 2025
Politics
House GOP urging members to do more virtual town halls as DOGE backlash heats up: ‘Not a good use of taxpayer dollars’
House GOP leaders are urging their Republican members to hold town halls virtually whenever possible amid backlash from the cost-cutting moves by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. House...
March 04, 2025
Education
Trump administration suspends student loans income-driven repayment application
President Donald Trump’s administration is no longer accepting applications online for some financial aid programs to help debtors pay for student loans. The U.S. Department of Education’s site no...