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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under the long-awaited forgiveness plan President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, a historic but politically divisive move in the run-up to the midterm elections. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Biden is erasing $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. He’s canceling an additional $10,000 for those who received federal...
Cheryl Lynn Barber of Chinook, 53, passed away peacefully December 26, 2021. She was born February 10, 1968, in Havre to Paul Dannels and Carol Upshaw. Early in life, her family moved to Chinook, where she attended school, graduating as a Sugarbeeter from Chinook High. In 1988, she was married to Bill Barber and they were blessed with three children, Casey, Katey, and Cody. Cheryl's life was enriched with the welcoming of her three children, all of whom she adored and was bles...
Pro-Trump protesters have stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. interrupting a congressional hearing to confirm the electoral college's votes in the 2020 General Election that resulted President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The protesters breached barricades, forcing lawmakers to be evacuated from the building for their safety. The National Guard has been activated and there are reports of one woman having been shot, though no further details on the incident have been released. 12 U.S. Senators including Steve...
Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. With Pennsylvania called for Biden, he had 273 votes in the Electoral College, with 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the race. With the count by The Associated Press count so far, Republican President Donald Trump has 214 Electoral College votes. The Associated Press called Arizona for Biden early, with most media outlets still waiting to call that race. After...
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT -- The Montana Senate race will help determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate. -- Republican groups have attacked Bullock over his support of a public option healthcare plan and criticized his actions after a former aide was accused of sexual harassment. -- Democratic groups have attacked Daines for giving tax cuts to big drug companies and corporations. Montana Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican and close ally of President Donald Trump, was supposed to coast to re-election in a state...
Note: This is from the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester U.S. Sen. Jon Tester released Monday a statement as Amtrak’s cuts in service to the Empire Builder line, which crosses the entire state of Montana along the Hi-Line, go into effect. Those cuts reduce the number of trains running along the route from seven days a week to three. “I’ve been sounding the alarm for months that this reduction in service will be devastating to Hi-Line communities, economies, and families who use the train to visit family across the count...
Montana's U.S. senators both said the latest version of a bill to add funds to protect small business payrolls passed the Senate this afternoon. Sen. Steve Daines R-Mont., held a press conference call this afternoon and announced the Paycheck Protection Program passed in the Senate. "Literally minutes ago, the U.S. Senate passed a very important package of over $480 billion additional relief," he said. He said this package includes $25 billion for testing and Montana will be...
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a package intended to provide aid for states, businesses and people struggling with the impacts of novel coronavirus 2019 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. The Senate unanimously passed the bill Wednesday. The record $2 trillion aid package now goes to the president for his signature. Watch for more in Monday's edition of the Havre Daily News....
Montana's U.S. senators praised the Senate Wednesday unanimously passing a novel coronavirus 2019 aid package that the U.S. House is expected to vote on Friday. "It's good to see the United States Senate pass a piece of legislation, this recovery package, with strong bipartisan vote. It's going to bring relief to workers, working families and small business across Montana." Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said. "I've spent a lot of time speaking with countless Montanans over the...
Inspector General of Social Security Gail S. Ennis is warning the public about fraudulent letters threatening suspension of Social Security benefits due to COVID-19 or coronavirus-related office closures. The Social Security Administration will not suspend or discontinue benefits because their offices are closed. The Social Security Office of the Inspector General has received reports that Social Security beneficiaries have received letters through the U.S. Mail stating their payments will be suspended or discontinued unless...
U.S. Health and Human Services is warning people a malicious website claiming to be the live map for Coronavirus COVID-2019 is circulating on the internet. Visiting the website infects the user with an information0stealingmprogram which can take a variety of sensitive data. It is likely being spread via infected email attachments, malicious online advertisements, and social engineering, a release said. Furthermore, anyone searching the internet for a Coronavirus map could...
Staff and wire report Montana’s U.S. senators and several grassroots organizations praised the unanimous Senate passage Thursday of legislation to help prevent and reduce murdered and missing Indigenous women. Savanna’s Act is named after Savanna Greywind, a pregnant 22-year-old North Dakota woman and member of the Spirit Lake Nation, who was brutally murdered in 2017. Savanna’s Act passed the Senate in 2018, but was blocked in the House. As Section 2 of Savanna’s Act notes, Indigenous women face more violence than any oth...
Montana Governor Steve Bullock has announced he is planning to run for U.S. president in the 2020 election. A two-term Democratic governor, Bullock remains popular with voters in the state. A poll by Montana State University and the Montana Television Network earlier this year found 60 percent of voters saying they strongly approve or approve of the job he's doing, and 54 percent of the voters saying the state is heading in the right direction. Bullock enters a tightly packed...
By ANDREW TAYLOR, ALAN FRAM and CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press WASHINGTON - Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders reached a short-term deal today to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president's demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced the agreement to break the 35-day impasse as intensifying delays at the nation's...
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it must delay the release of key crop reports due to the partial government shutdown, leaving investors and farmers without vital information during an already tumultuous time for agricultural markets. The USDA had planned to release the closely watched reports Jan. 11 but said that even if the shutdown ended immediately, the agency’s staff wouldn’t have time to release the reports as scheduled. Congr...
By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON - Congress gaveled open for a rare Saturday session days before Christmas as America's elected leaders partially shut down the government, unable to find a compromise over money for President Donald Trump's promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump is demanding $5 billion, but congressional Democrats are refusing to accede in a stalemate that provides a chaotic coda for Republicans in...
By TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press WASHINGTON — The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas today seeking records from the Trump Organization, the Internal Revenue Service and dozens of other entities as part of a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency. The flurry of subpoenas came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Peter J. Messitte approved a brisk schedule for discovery in the case alleging that foreign and domestic government spending at Trump's W...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — The dinner table diplomacy that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China conducted over the weekend produced something as vague as it was valuable: an agreement to keep talking. Forged over grilled sirloin at the Group of 20 summit Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the ceasefire Trump and Xi agreed to Saturday night illustrated that the leaders of the world's two largest economies can at least find some common ground, however tentative and ill-defined it might be. T...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK — Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, with plans to shutter 142 unprofitable stores in the hopes that it can stay in business. The question now is whether a smaller version of the company that once towered over the American retail landscape can be viable. Sears, which started as a mail order catalog in the 1880s, has been on a slow march toward extinction as it lagged far behind its peers and incurred huge losses over the years. At its peak, the operator of S...
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country's cultural, gender and political divides. The near party-line vote was 50-48, capping a fight that seized the national conversation after claims...
Editor’s note: This version corrects an Associated Press headline that said Daines would leave his daughter’s wedding if needed WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Steve Daines said he will return to Washington D.C. by private jet on his daughter's wedding day if his vote is needed to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The Montana Republican said in a statement to The Associated Press that his Republican colleague, Montana congressman Greg Gianforte, "has come to save the day" by offering him use of his private jet. Daine...
By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle today, setting up a likely final showdown this weekend in a battle that's seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President Donald Trump's effort to tip the court rightward for decades. The Senate voted 51-49 to limit debate, effectively defeating Democratic efforts to scuttle the nomination wi...
By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON - After a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court after agreeing to a late call from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona for a one week investigation into sexual assault allegations against the high court nominee. However, it's unclear if Republican leaders - or President Donald Trump - will support Flake's...
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook says it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts. The hack is the latest setback for Facebook during a year of tumult for the global social media service. In a blog post , the company says hackers exploited a bug that affected its "View As" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to someone else. That would let attackers steal the "access tokens" Facebook uses to keep people logged in....
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. - His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced today to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison. The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall from grace for the comedian, former TV star and breaker of racial barriers. "It is time for...
