A new $120 million pledge to lift President Biden and his allies will push the total expected spending from outside groups working to re-elect Mr. Biden to $1 billion this year. The League of Conservation Voters, a leading climate organization that is among the biggest spenders on progressive causes, announced its plans for backing Mr.…
President Biden announced the cancellation of an additional $1.2 billion in student loan debt for about 153,000 borrowers on Wednesday, his latest effort at student debt relief after the Supreme Court blocked a more sprawling plan last year. Mr. Biden has now canceled $138 billion of student debt for almost 3.9 million borrowers through about…
President Biden is expected to ask Congress in the coming days to approve about $100 billion in emergency funds to arm Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan and fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, according to multiple people familiar with the plan. The funding request, which lawmakers expect to receive by Friday morning, would cover a full year and…
Caesar Sanchez looks out at the same sign all day, every day from his electronics shop in downtown Los Angeles: “Billionaire made here.” The B on that sign is pasted over an old M to update the word “millionaire,” because in July the small convenience store sold a winning Powerball lottery ticket worth more than…
One of the largest Powerball jackpots in history has grown even larger, to $1.73 billion, after no one had the winning numbers in Monday’s lottery drawing. The next drawing, on Wednesday night, will be the second-largest jackpot ever in the United States. Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the multistate Mega Millions and Powerball…