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Biden has approved $175 billion in student loan forgiveness for nearly 5 million people

Katie Lobosco, CNN October 17, 2024

Washington (CNN) — With less than three weeks before the November election, the Biden-Harris administration is reminding voters how it has delivered a historic amount of student debt relief even as Republicans...

A Morehouse student fills out a voter registration form at a voter registration form at a voter registration booth at Morehouse College on August 19, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Harris still lags behind Biden’s 2020 margins among Black voters, but latest CNN poll suggests she has room to grow support

Edward Wu, CNN September 26, 2024

CNN — Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by a wide margin among Black likely voters, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but still falls short of Joe Biden’s winning 2020 margins with...

President Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 summit in Fasano, Italy, on June 13. | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Biden will not seek reelection

Michael Williams, CNN July 21, 2024

CNN — President Joe Biden says he is not seeking reelection in a letter posted to X on his official account. Biden says he will speak to the nation later this week in more detail. “It has been...

President Joe Biden, here in Las Vegas, on July 16, has tested positive for Covid-19. | Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19

(CNN) — President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House. Biden, 81, tested positive following his first event in Las Vegas,...

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An unprecedented debate could shake up a White House race like no other

CNN — The confrontation in Atlanta between Joe Biden and Donald Trump Thursday night has a good chance of becoming the most fateful presidential debate in US history. For the first time, a sitting...

Nearly 250 Kent State students have until Oct. 7, 2024, to re-register to vote. If they don't, they may be turned away from the election.

Students prepare to vote in upcoming primary election

Talia Milewich, Reporter March 17, 2024

Students across campus are preparing to vote in the upcoming primary election on Tuesday. The primary election has begun to determine who the candidates representing each party will be in anticipation...

Biden clinches Democratic nomination as Trump remains on course to win enough delegates for party’s nod

Gregory Krieg, CNN March 12, 2024

CNN — Joe Biden has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, CNN projects, allowing him to fully pivot to the general election campaign as he tries to win a second term. His likely...

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OPINION: Super Tuesday: Why you should care

Virginia Doherty, Opinion Writer March 11, 2024

Voters in 16 U.S. states cast their ballots March 5 for the presidential primaries, as news outlets and anxious voters followed the results of Super Tuesday this year. Super Tuesday is the day the largest...

Biden instructed aides to dial up attacks on Trump’s wild comments

MJ Lee, CNN February 20, 2024

CNN--President Joe Biden personally directed his senior campaign aides in recent days to focus more aggressively on former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments, according...

A pump sucks in and sprays water at Leslie Run Creek just ahead of filters set up to catch chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 19, 2023.

‘I don’t feel safe in town,’ East Palestine train derailment: What’s happening one year later

Lauren Bischof, Beat Reporter February 8, 2024

On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the village of East Palestine, Ohio, igniting a fire consisting of toxic chemicals, spurring temporary evacuation of residents...

President Joe Biden, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Getty Images/FILE)

Ukraine’s US lifeline is hanging by a thinning thread

Stephen Collinson, CNN December 5, 2023

CNN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grim bet that America and the West will tire of his brutal war before he does is looking better by the day. Nearly seven weeks after President Joe Biden asked...