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Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed confidently that he is “not at all” concerned about losing his position as Speaker of the House despite growing opposition among conservative lawmakers regarding the recent debt limit deal reached between him and Joe Biden. On Sunday, Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden reached a final agreement on the debt limit to avert a government default. “Good news,” Biden announced. “The agreement prevents the worst possible crisis, a default, for the first time in our nation’s history,” he said. “Takes the threat of a catastrophic default off the table.” “This is a good strong bill that a...

The 8th Circuit US Appeals Court blocked Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program on Friday afternoon. The court granted an emergency stay barring the discharge of any student debt until the court decides on a request for a longer-term injunction. Reuters reported: A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in college student debt, one day after a judge dismissed a Republican-led lawsuit by six states challenging the loan-forgiveness program. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay barring the discharge of any student debt under the program...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Biden requests $33 Billion more from Congress for weapons shipments to Ukraine 10:14 AM · Apr 28, 2022

BERTHOUD - The Thompson School Board will be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on one of its ex-students -- an 11-year-old autistic boy. Luke Perkins went to Berthoud Elementary School, but his parents felt he wasn't receiving the proper education for his needs. "He wasn't learning even the basic things he was going to need in life," says his father, Jeff Perkins. The Perkins decided to enroll their son in the Boston Higashi School in January 2004. The school specializes in teaching children with special needs. The tuition is over $130,000 a year, and its students live at the...

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano may declare border counties a disaster area, following the lead of her New Mexico counterpart. Napolitano press aide Jeanine L'Ecuyer said Monday the governor's staff is exploring whether an emergency could be declared based not on a natural disaster but because of the problems of crime, human smuggling and property destruction caused by people crossing the international border. L'Ecuyer said the basic question involves reviewing the legal grounds for making such a declaration. State law permits the governor to declare an emergency in various instances, including cases of "invasions, hostile attacks, riots or insurrections.'' On...

Caucasus: As U.S. prepares to train republic's forces in anti-terror tactics, some analysts question motives. DUISI, Georgia -- A band of Arab fighters in the mountains near this country's Pankisi Gorge have caused sufficient alarm that the United States is preparing to spend $64 million in part to help the Georgian military get rid of them. Philip Remler, a senior U.S. diplomat in Georgia, said in February that dozens of fighters from Afghanistan, including Al Qaeda members, had fled to the Caucasus in recent months. But authorities in this former Soviet republic, both local and national, dispute that contention. They...