The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness.
This week’s UK tech funding deals include flying taxi company Skyports, Scottish rocket manufacturer Orbex, generative AI legal assistant Lawhive and more. UKTN tracked £176.6m worth of tech funding deals this week (15 April to 19 April), a whopping 316.5% week-on-week increase. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding. Skyports – £88m Sector: Mobility […]
This week’s UK tech funding deals include SME financial management platform Mimo, a navigation app for the visually impaired called Waymap, digital carer platform Log my Care and more. UKTN tracked £42.4m worth of tech funding deals this week (08 April to 12 April), an 18% week-on-week decline. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup […]
United States President Joe Biden said that his party has ‘a plan to deal with’ inflation after new data showed surging gas prices, mortgages, and rent pushed inflation higher than expected in March. Biden was challenged by a journalist during a press conference with the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, at the White House (10 April.) The reporter pointed out that last month, Biden predicted that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates due to falling inflation. However, the opposite...
Even with the potential for error and a decline in voter engagement, polls can explain the electorate at a point in timeIn recent months, polling has generally showed President Joe Biden running behind his Republican challenger, Donald Trump, by a small margin, particularly in swing states like Georgia and Arizona. But election polling began to fluctuate after Biden’s State of the Union speech last month.The question is how much meaning observers should ascribe to polls in April, seven months...
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign "plans to spend every day until November 5" hammering the issue of abortion.
Startup funding in the second week of April 2024 declined by about 67% from the same period a year ago, totalling $73 million across 12 deals.Deal density in the latest week went down to about $6 million per deal, as per Tracxn data. During April 6 to April 12, 2023, startups had raised about $7.4 million per deal.Funding was down sequentially as well, from $58.8 million across 20 funding rounds in the previous week.Of the total corpus raised this week, artificial intelligence (AI) cloud and...
The Daily Yonder reports on how a lack of resources to secure federal funds could threaten the success of a rural community's sustainability plan.
Republican legislation in the House would bar the Biden administration from spending taxpayer dollars to advance a nuclear deal with Iran until the hardline regime severs its cash ties to China and terminates support for Hamas, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Tesla is pushing forward with a plan to build an electric big rig charging corridor stretching from Texas to California, despite being snubbed by a lucrative federal funding program that’s part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But the original scope of the project could still change, TechCrunch has learned. The company had been seeking […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — President Joe Biden will visit Central New York next week to formally announce the $6.1 billion award of CHIPS funding to Micron, sources familiar with the White Ho
An Israeli airstrike flattened the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday. US officials say Iran is planning to use drones and missiles in retaliation. It is the latest sign the Israel-Hamas conflict could trigger a wider regional war