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South Korea Finance Minister vows measures to stabilise market volatility if needed

Biden cancels $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers

Biden plans to cancel student loan debt, 23 million Americans may be impacted

Biden surveys collapsed Baltimore bridge, pledges help

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call Wednesday and noted that Moscow is ready to take part in talks to end the conflict.Sergei Shoigu told French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu that if Paris follows up on its statements about the possibility of…

After bridge collapse, Maryland governor urges Congress to pass funding for rebuild

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump’s campaign and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”The Democratic president issued the proclamation on Friday, calling on “all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices…

Joe Biden earned a loud laugh from the audience at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City with a comment about Donald Trump’s golf game.Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, who was comparing Thursday’s event at Radio City Music Hall, teed up the joke by telling the president:“Donald Trump, as far as we can tell, has…

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state’s Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.The legislation calls for a special election to fill any Senate…

China’s President Xi meets US executives in Beijing as investment wanes