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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 …

Google parent Alphabet will cut ties with lobbyists and think tanks that deny accelerating man-made climate change, reacting in part to the global toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and heeding repeat complaints from employees and environmental activists. The search giant also announced plans to operate with zero emissions by 2025 …