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Biden Must Recognize All Student Debt as Hardship. It’s the Key Step to Relief.
The Department of Education is making debt relief contingent on proof of “hardship,” but the debt itself is hardship.
![Demonstrators participate in a abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0425-scotus-uterus-400x300.jpg)
Poll Shows Majority of Americans Would Back Federal Abortion Rights Protections
The issue of abortion rights could help determine who wins in local, state and federal elections this fall.
![U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield talks to Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan after voting on a U.S. ceasefire resolution for the Gaza war during a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on March 22, 2024, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2097692284-400x300.jpg)
US Is Lobbying Against UN Palestinian Statehood Resolution, Leak Reveals
Full UN membership is crucial for a two-state solution or another outcome allowing for Palestinian self-determination.
![Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) (C) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) hold up signs as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 07, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-15-cori-bush-stop-bombing-400x300.jpg)
Cori Bush: Lawmakers’ Warmongering Against Iran Is “Blatantly Unconstitutional”
“We cannot let the warmongers win; our country and our world are calling for restraint,” said Rep. Cori Bush.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders questions witnesses during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-bernie-400x300.jpg)
Sanders: “History Will Judge” US’s Backing of Israel as It Destroys Gaza
Sanders’s op-ed comes just after Israel completed its total annihilation of Gaza’s largest hospital.
![Palestinian families, seeking refuge from Israeli attacks, try to feed their children by cooking the limited food they can barely afford at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on February 8, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-gaza-hunger-400x300.jpg)
Top Biden Official Admits Famine Is Spreading in Gaza as US Continues Funding It
The famine is “giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” the USAID chief said in a congressional hearing.
![Muslims gather to perform Eid al-Fitr prayer at al-Huda Mosque which was heavily damaged after Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza, on April 10, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-gaza-a-400x300.jpg)
State Department Has Seen Historic Amount of Internal Dissent Over Gaza
Even the Iraq War hadn’t prompted nearly this much internal dissent, former officials said.
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The “War on Terror” Is the Ghost Haunting This Year’s Election
Trumpism is the war on terror coming home. Meanwhile, Biden’s war on terror mentality is distorting his policy on Gaza.
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Activists: Biden Risking Student Debt Relief Plans by Continuing MOHELA Contract
Sticking with the servicer at the center of the SCOTUS debt relief case threatens current forgiveness plans, they say.
![President Joe Biden (left) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-biden-ne-400x300.jpg)
Biden Levies Strongest Criticism of Israel Yet as He Continues to Fund Genocide
“I don’t agree with [Netanyahu’s] approach,” Biden said, after months of granting full U.S. support to the genocide.