Author: Elaine Mallon

The Education Department resumed its collection of defaulted student loans on Monday. Since 2020, collections on student loans have been paused. Currently, 5 million borrowers are in default, which is when a borrower hasn’t paid on his or her loan in over 270 days.  The Biden administration’s efforts to create debt elimination through the Saving on a…

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) endorsed Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) open Senate seat in 2026.  “Juliana has not only proven to be an experienced and effective Lieutenant Governor — she’s demonstrated time and again that she truly understands and cares for working people,” Duckworth said in a statement. “I’d be…

Colin Carroll, the deputy defense secretary’s former chief of staff who was fired weeks ago, characterized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as being unpredictable in meetings and switching between well-mannered and “agitated.” Carroll was fired along with senior Hegseth adviser Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick due to allegations that the trio leaked information to the media. On…

A new investigation into the Washington, D.C., plane and helicopter collision over the Potomac River that killed 67 has blamed personnel failures of both the pilot and the air traffic controllers. The crash on Jan. 29 occurred when a Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission collided with an American Airlines passenger jet carrying 64…

President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, is joining press secretary Karoline Leavitt for a White House press briefing at 8:30 a.m. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION PLAN The joint news conference comes after border crossings along the southern border were down 94.8% last month, compared to March 2024, according to U.S. Customs…

President Donald Trump said levying an additional tax on millionaires would be “disruptive” to the U.S. economy. “I think it would be very disruptive because a lot of the millionaires would leave the country,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday. “In the old days, they left the states. They go from one state…

President Donald Trump is organizing a private event for the biggest holders of his meme coin $TRUMP. He is hosting a dinner at his private club in Washington, D.C., with the top 220 holders of the meme coin. The top 25 holders will be invited to a pre-dinner reception hosted by the president and get…

Vice President JD Vance expressed his condolences to “millions of Christians all over the world” following the death of Pope Francis just hours after meeting him face to face.   “I just learned of the passing of Pope Francis,” Vance posted on X. “My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who…

President Donald Trump extended the federal government’s hiring freeze to July 15 in a memorandum signed Thursday.  “No Federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created, except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or required by applicable law,” Trump wrote. He first signed the federal…

The Trump administration is making moves to sell the Department of Housing and Urban Development‘s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to consolidate its ownership of prime real estate in the district. On Thursday, the General Services Administration added HUD’s headquarters, the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, to a list of federal properties designated for “accelerated disposal.”…