News in :90 – Feb. 13, 2023

The senate passed an aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, parts of the Northeast U.S. were hit by a snowstorm and shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940. Features CME Miles Schiffer has today’s News in :90.

Obama to sign student loan legislation

President Barack Obama prepared Tuesday to sign the piece of his sweeping health care overhaul that makes the government the primary lender to students and strips banks of that power. Obama’s hard-fought legislative victory packaged two of his domestic priorities. Obama already signed the bulk of the health care legislation, but a final set of tweaks provided a route for the education package, the largest rewrite of federal college assistance programs in four decades.