Donald Trump’s second-choice pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, in 2013 received from Trump a $25,000 donation for a political action committee supporting her campaign to be re-elected as Florida’s attorney general — just days after a Bondi spokesperson told the media that her office was reviewing a lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general
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College accreditor ACCSC has renewed approval of four for-profit colleges owned by California-based International Education Corp. (IEC), a company that was forced to shut down many of its campuses in the past year after a U.S. Department of Education investigation revealed the schools were rigging student entrance exams and engaging in other fraudulent conduct. By
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If you, like me, consider Donald J. Trump to be one of the most vile people on earth, and you consider his ugly, revenge-fueled MAGA agenda to be a dangerous assault on democracy, justice, human rights, and the American economy, then of course you have been smacked hard in the face. The rapid-fire announcements by
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Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, was, during the first Trump administration, paid by the main trade group representing for-profit colleges, and he spoke out against legislation aimed at protecting military service members and veterans from deceptive schools that bury former students in debt.
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  It was shocking that American voters in 2016 narrowly elected Donald Trump after he demonstrated he was a vile person who pledged to do reckless and hateful things to our country. It was much more disturbing that the populace more decisively elected Trump in 2024 after they had voted him out in 2020 following
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Carl Barney, the ultra-wealthy former owner of a chain of collapsed for-profit colleges, is the third biggest California-based donor to efforts to elect Donald Trump in 2024, the Los Angeles Times reports today. Barney has donated $924,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, according to federal records. Like Donald Trump, who in 2016 paid $25 million
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Billionaire Betsy DeVos, who resigned from her job as Donald Trump’s secretary of education over Trump’s incitement of the deadly January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, has donated $250,000 to America PAC, the pro-Trump super PAC created by the world’s richest man, industrialist Elon Musk. The contribution was disclosed in a Federal Election Commission
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With American democracy on the line in just a few days, of course people opposed to Donald Trump are wasting time fighting with each other on social media this weekend. This time it’s about whether folks should cancel their subscriptions to the Washington Post in the wake of that paper’s decision to spike an editorial
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