Biden was backed by 46 percent of respondents to the Georgia poll, which was conducted by SurveyUSA and Atlanta’s 11 Live News. Trump was supported by just 44 percent of respondents, while 6 percent said they remained undecided and 4 percent said they would vote for another candidate. Trump won Georgia by a significant margin of just over 5 percent during the 2016 presidential election. Republicans have carried the state in every presidential election going back to 1992, when the voters there chose former Democratic President Bill Clinton over former President George H....

Earlier this month, Biden extended the federal student loan moratorium until August 31. When Psaki recently appeared on the Pod Save America podcast, she was asked if canceling student loan debt was still on the table. She responded that it was and that between now and August 31 the moratorium will either be extended again or “we’re going to make a decision” about canceling student debt. The Biden administration has been facing pressure from Democratic politicians and others to cancel student loan debt....

The chaotic August days before the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan will no doubt be cited for what not to do, but that crisis also provides a positive lesson. Seventy thousand at-risk Afghans were brought to the U.S. from Afghanistan. They have been met by a bipartisan, innovative, effective welcome. We need to learn from that. Operation Allies Welcome is a genuine whole-of-government effort. Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services all contributed....

That’s the advice the Biden administration has gotten from psychologist Peter Coleman. In a series of memos, Coleman, a mediator with experience in conflicts as far-flung as the Middle East, Haiti and Africa, has advised the new administration that the best way to repair and reverse the extremism in U.S. politics is to focus Americans on the virulence of the nation’s divisions and mobilize them to attack the problem....

The proposed model—technically put forward by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation—affects Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit, which relies on private insurers to administer seniors’ drug coverage. CMS heavily regulates these insurers’ plans. One such regulation requires insurers to cover “all or substantially all” drugs in six protected classes: antiretrovirals, antineoplastics, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antipsychotics and immunosuppressants. It’s no mystery why these drug classes are “protected.” These medicines treat illnesses like HIV/AIDS, cancer, bipolar disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia—all of which often require multiple treatments specifically tailored to individual patients....

“Without a doubt, COVID-19 has changed the threat landscape,” says Peggy Hamburg, former FDA commissioner and now vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan think tank on global security. Yet despite the rising risk of a new, future pandemic caused by a lab leak—or one that emerges from a bioterrorist attack or even natural causes, for that matter—the U.S. government, under the leadership of Joe Biden and Congress, seems on course to repeat the mistake made by nearly every one of its predecessors for the past several decades: failing to take all possible steps to strengthen America’s response to a future pandemic or prevent one from happening in the first place....

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found that more registered voters still disapproved of Biden than approved, with 43 percent approving and 49 percent disapproving. However, the rating represented a marked uptick for the current president, who had a 36 percent approval and 55 percent disapproval rating in an edition of the same poll released November 22. Trump, who announced he was running for president for a third time last month, had a significantly lower approval rating....

Then-vice president Joe Biden was tasked with elaborating the administration’s position, while the policy itself was developed by Assistant Secretary of Education Catherine Lhamon, a trained lawyer who has never worked in a university. Lhamon ensured compliance by threatening academic administrators with loss of all federal funds if they failed to obey her directives. Notoriously unfair to the accused, the Obama-era Title IX guidance created what amounted to kangaroo courts in which respondents had limited access to evidence and no right to cross-examination, hearings, or legal counsel....

Biden should learn the right lessons from the Johnson presidency. A bold domestic agenda can easily be overshadowed by foreign policy disaster. To avoid such a fate, Biden will need to manage his foreign policy challenges with shrewd diplomacy, and take bold action to mitigate risks of war. He will need to quickly rejoin the fraying nuclear deal with Iran. Failing to seize the narrow opportunity available right now to defuse the looming crisis with Iran will only heighten the risk that a spiraling conflict subsumes Biden’s presidency....

Exit polls from Tuesday’s midterms show that Biden isn’t only struggling to win voters today—as his approval rating remains underwater, as 54 percent say they disapprove of the job he’s doing as president—but is headed toward what is shaping up to be a difficult reelection campaign. Asked about the two-thirds of voters who said they don’t want Biden to run again, the president told NBC’s Kristen Welker that those opinions won’t factor into his 2024 decision....

Biden said he’s consulted with constitutional scholars about whether executive action would “pass muster.” “I told the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] to go back and consider what options may be available,” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “The CDC will announce that and any details of how it works.” Biden said he’s hoping that it will be a new moratorium that will cover about 90 percent of renters. Biden’s administration spent days arguing that it didn’t have the authority to extend the moratorium and that Congress would need to act....

Biden “reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself” in his high-level call with Netanyahu. But the U.S. president also demanded the “safety and security of journalists” in the wake of an Israeli airstrike on the Jalaa building that housed media outlets The Associated Press and Al Jazeera. In a separate conversation with Abbas, Biden reiterated his “strong commitment” to negotiating a two-state solution between the Palestinians and Israelis....

“I’ll bring everyone to the table, including police chiefs, including civil rights activists, including NAACP, including the Latino community,” Biden told a crowd of 20 community members gathered at the Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha. “We’re going to sit down there, and we’re going to work it out because a significant portion of the police are decent people, but there are a lot of bad folks in every organization.”...

During his speech Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, Biden expressed his gratitude for American veterans, saying they are the spine of the country. “Our veterans represent the best of America,” the president said. “You are the very spine of America, not just the backbone…. And all of us owe you.” Biden said he will work with Congress to ensure that veterans receive “the world-class benefits that they’ve earned.” He said his administration will expand presumptive conditions for toxic exposure and particulate matter, including Agent Orange and burn pits, and improve care at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities....

During Psaki’s daily press briefing at the White House on Tuesday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked if Biden was planning on apologizing to Rittenhouse, who was acquitted Friday on charges of first-degree intentional homicide and more after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during protests in Wisconsin last summer. “Would the president ever apologize to the acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse for suggesting online and on TV that he is a white supremacist?...

That pressure may produce an inherent temptation to win now, at all costs, rather than to just color in the lines and patiently build a foundation and an enduring winning culture. “You hit the nail on the head right there,” new Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells said at Big 12 Media Days. “I know what I signed up for. I know exactly what I signed up for. You have to balance that....

Once again, however, Kansas will have plenty of competition in the conference. Including the Jayhawks, seven Big 12 teams made the NCAA Tournament teams in 2018, including four (Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech and West Virginia) which made the Sweet 16. Three Big 12 teams made Sporting News’ updated preseason top 25. MORE: SN preseason top 25 teams West Virginia (Jevon Carter, Daxter Miles Jr.) and TCU (Kenrich Williams, Vladimir Brodziansky) lose key senior leaders but both teams — along with a deep Kansas State squad — have enough talent to pose a threat to the Jayhawks’ historic conference run....

Boston signed the rookie to a two-way contract on Sunday. That means he will spend 45 days with the team’s G-League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws, which confirmed him joining the team Sunday. Fall, a 7-foot-5 center has become a favorite with Boston’s fanbase after signing with the team as an undrafted free agent out of Central Florida. In the Celtics’ first preseason game against the Hornets last week, people in the stands were chanting at coach Brad Stevens to put Fall in....

High Point, the Big South’s regular-season champion, was upset 62-60 by Winthrop in the conference tournament quarterfinals courtesy of Eagles junior guard Andre Smith’s 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left. Winthrop will play Radford in Saturday’s Big South semifinals, with the championship game airing Sunday at noon ET on ESPN2.

Big Tech—and hundreds of other Fortune 500 companies—have each saved billions of dollars annually since the GOP-majority Congress passed President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Despite the corporate tax break windfall, Big Tech employee donations to Democrats increased by 16 percent since 2016, when rampant accusations of “conservative bias” first sprang up against Silicon Valley. Big Tech donations this year have particularly helped Democratic candidates in tight U....