Mark Brown, the head of the office overseeing the government’s student-loan portfolio, resigned Friday, following calls on the Biden administration to remove Brown, who was appointed by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement Friday morning that he’d accepted Brown’s resignation from …
Read More »Key Words: ‘Trump Cards’? Drug companies reportedly balked at White House insistence on sending cash cards to America’s seniors
“ ‘Trump Cards.’ ” That was the branding some participants in drug-price negotiations between the pharmaceutical industry and the Trump administration reportedly slapped on the prepaid cards that President Donald Trump’s team insisted the drug companies send to U.S. seniors as part of an agreement. It turned out to be …
Read More »Election: Trump says Biden’s ‘not a savior of America’s soul,’ but rather the ‘destroyer of America’s jobs’
President Donald Trump on Thursday night made an effort to turn his Democratic challenger’s campaign rallying cries against him, as he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination and delivered the last speech at the GOP’s four-day convention. “In America, we don’t turn to government to restore our souls. We put our …
Read More »CityWatch: Is America’s masked city losing its grip on safety?
“Don’t make me come down there …” For the past three days, those six words have set the tone in New York. They came in a Twitter TWTR, +1.58% post on Saturday from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the whole world immediately grasped what Michaela, Mariah and Cara Cuomo must have …
Read More »Brett Arends’s ROI: How America’s extreme ‘survivalists’ are preparing for a worst-case coronavirus epidemic — ‘beans, bullets and Band-Aids’
James Wesley Rawles is hunkered down at an undisclosed location west of the Rockies. “I’m not at liberty to say what state I live in,” he told MarketWatch via internet phone. “I live in the inland Northwest… more than two hours from any decent shopping. We could lock our gate …
Read More »‘We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby.’ Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech will be welcomed by America’s growing army of vegans
Dairy milk got a bad reception at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Joaquin Phoenix took aim at dairy farming in his Oscars speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Joker.” “We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a …
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