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Debt ceiling: Support for 14th amendment solution mounts on Capitol Hill
Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe support on Capitol Hill for what was once a fringe legal theory is growing by the hour as the...
Jimmy Carter: White House rise depended on twists before '76
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoJimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents trying...
Supreme Court highly unlikely to grant taxpayers' request to block Biden debt relief
Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoA new challenger is vying to derail the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief plan by...
One student loan forgiveness effort 'hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves': expert
Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe one-time payment adjustment counts certain months toward student loan forgiveness that were...
How antisemitism became an American crisis
Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmerican Jews are suddenly facing anxieties about antisemitism that were supposedly expunged generations ago. A sharp spike in antisemitic incidents has...
Today in History: December 4, the "Million Dollar Quartet"
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoOn Dec. 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis. In 1783, Gen. George Washington ...
Today in History: April 16, MLK writes from Birmingham jail
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoToday’s Highlight in History: On April 16, 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers ...
Today in History, FEB 23, siege of the Alamo begins
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoOn Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated. In 1685, composer George Frideric ...
Today in History: JAN 23, ABC begins mini-series "Roots"
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoOn Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it. In 1368 ...
Today in History: May 18, Mount St. Helens erupts
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoIn 1652, Rhode Island became the first American colony to pass a law abolishing African slavery; however, the law was apparently never enforced. In 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg began during ...
