October, 2021

• 5 October

  Biden sets $1.9

  

  President Biden told progressive House Democrats during a virtual meeting Monday that the price tag for the $3.5 trillion social safety net bill would need to come down, and he gave them a range between $1.9 and $2.2 trillion, according to sources familiar with the discussion.  The White House believes …

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• 1 October

  Remains found in Iowa cornfield may be those of Iowa boy missing since late May, Xavior Harrelson

  

  Montezuma, Iowa — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday said Thursday they have found human remains matching his description in a nearby cornfield. The remains were discovered by a farmer working in a field a few miles outside of Montezuma, where …

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September, 2021

• 29 September

  Manchin and Sinema meet with Biden over reconciliation bill concerns

  

  Moderate Democrats Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema held separate meetings with President Biden at the White House Tuesday, as the White House and most Democrats push an up-to $3.5 trillion bill to expand the social safety net.  Mr. Biden’s first-term domestic agenda is packed into the massive bill, …

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• 16 September

  Defense secretary urges Pentagon employees to report any cases of “Havana Syndrome”

  

  A new memo issued Wednesday by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urges all Pentagon employees and contractors to report suspected cases of “Havana Syndrome,” the mysterious neurological illness that emerged years ago among U.S. personnel in Cuba. The memo, which refers to the cases as “Anomalous Health Incidents,” said that …

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• 3 September

  Biden administration releases plan for combating next pandemic

  

  The Biden administration has released its plan for combating the next pandemic, warning that a future pandemic could be even worse than COVID-19.  In a call with reporters, White House officials described an Apollo-like mission to coordinate all aspects of pandemic response in a centralized command. The administration’s plan, which …

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August, 2021

• 27 August

  Intelligence community issues inconclusive report about origins of COVID

  

  The U.S. intelligence community remains divided about the origin of COVID-19, according to an unclassified summary of its 90-day investigation into the matter. All agencies agreed that two hypotheses are possible – natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident.  But the report failed to draw a definitive …

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• 19 August

  Biden administration automatically erasing student debt for borrowers with severe disabilities

  

  The Biden administration will automatically wipe out federal student loan debt for borrowers who have a total and permanent disability, as it has done for veterans with a severe disability, meaning more than 323,000 borrowers who receive more than $5.8 billion in automatic student loan discharges.  The federal government currently …

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• 6 August

  Judge temporarily blocks Arkansas from enforcing ban on mask mandates

  

  An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates after lawmakers left the prohibition in place, even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise.  Earlier this week, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said he wished the law he signed could be undone, in particular, so …

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July, 2021

• 29 July

  Endorsement deals come thick and fast for college athletes, as NCAA floodgates open

  

  Boost Mobile and Fresno State women’s basketball twins Haley and Hanna Cavinder. Smoothie King and Louisiana State University and quarterback Myles Brennan. 1-800-Got-Junk and Kansas University hoops star Mitch Lightfoot.  Companies large and small have wasted no time finding college athletes for sponsorship deals, just weeks after the NCAA granted them …

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• 22 July

  Biden administration imposing sanctions on Cuban regime

  

  President Biden is imposing sanctions on the head of the Cuban military and the division of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior to “hold them accountable for the actions,” he announced in a statement Thursday afternoon. And the president said this is “just the beginning” of sanctions.  Mr. Biden said …

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