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The Biden administration has canceled more than $4 billion in student loan debt for nearly 55,000 people.

President-elect Donald Trump said the need to pass a spending bill is "a Biden problem," emphasizing that it is better for a government shutdown to occur now than when Trump takes office.

The Defense Department disclosed on Thursday that the Biden administration has more than doubled the number of U.S. troops in Syria, increasing the total from approximately 900 to around 2,000.

Barbara Leaf, the State Department’s top official for the Middle East, will travel to Damascus this week, marking a significant step in U.S. diplomatic engagement with Syria.

The U.S. population grew at its fastest pace in over two decades, reaching 340 million residents in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is advising cities and states on strategies to help illegal aliens evade deportation under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Trump has tasked his incoming Border Czar, Thomas Homan, with overseeing what is expected to be the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, targeting the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens currently residing in the country. Among this group, approximately 1.5 million individuals have final deportation orders.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated the definition of "healthy" for the first time in thirty years.

President-elect Donald Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News that Congress should abolish the debt ceiling.

Manhattan resident Chen Jinping pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) after he operated a secret police station in the city on behalf of the PRC’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have detained a 20-year-old California man, Alexander Paffendorf, for allegedly conspiring with Madison, Wisconsin, school shooter Natalie "Samantha" Rpuinow.