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A Major Part of Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan Is Restored
Major components of President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment plan can continue to operate as lawsuits challenging it wind through the legal system, a federal appellate court ruled Sunday. That frees the administration to cut certain borrowers’ payments by as much as half, a benefit that had been previously scheduled but blocked.
Vehement Dissent From Supreme Court’s Liberal Wing Laments Vast Expansion of Presidential Power
The Supreme Court’s three Democratic appointees railed in dissent against the conservative majority’s ruling that former President Donald Trump has some immunity for his official actions, declaring that their colleagues had made the president into “a king above the law.”
Wall Street Law Firms Are in a Poaching Frenzy. Kind of Like the NBA
Hotshot Wall Street lawyers are now so in demand that bidding wars between firms for their services can resemble the frenzy among teams to sign star athletes. Eight-figure pay packages — rare a decade ago — are increasingly common for corporate lawyers at the top of their game, and many of these new heavy hitters have one thing in common: private equity.
Bannon Reports to Prison After One Final Podcast Episode
Steve Bannon, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, has reported for a four-month sentence in federal prison on Monday after hosting the two final hours of his podcast from just outside the low-security facility in Danbury, Connecticut.
Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide
David Metcalf’s last act in life was an attempt to send a message — that years as a Navy SEAL had left his brain so damaged that he could barely recognize himself. He died by suicide in his garage in North Carolina in 2019, at age 42, after nearly 20 years in the Navy. But just before he died, he arranged a stack of books about brain injury by his side, and taped a note to the door that read, in part, “Gaps in memory, failing recognition, mood swings, headaches, impulsiveness, fatigue, anxiety, and paranoia were not who I was, but have become who I am. Each is worsening.”
48 Hours to Fix a 90-Minute Mess: Inside the Biden Camp’s Post-Debate Frenzy
In the wee hours of Friday morning, not long after President Joe Biden had walked off the stage from a disastrous debate, his campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, acknowledged in a series of private calls with prominent supporters that the night had gone poorly but urged them not to overreact.
How Does Bird Flu Spread in Cows? Experiment Yields Some ‘Good News.’
Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment carried out in Kansas and Germany has shed some light on the mystery.
The World of Luxury Fruit: Does a $156 Melon Taste Sweeter?
A $396 pineapple comes tucked into an ornate red box that unfurls like origami and is punched with breathing holes. A $156 melon, swaddled in foam netting, grew alone on a vine from which every other fruit was pruned, with the aim of making it extra sweet.
Orlando Cepeda, Baseball Slugger Known as the Baby Bull, Dies at 86
Orlando Cepeda, the second Puerto Rican native to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and one of the game’s leading sluggers of his time, from the late 1950s to the early ’70s, died Friday. He was 86.
For Emergency Abortion, Idaho Doctors Flew Her Away
Nicole Miller had gone to the emergency room in Boise, Idaho, after waking up with heavy bleeding in her 20th week of pregnancy. By afternoon, she was still leaking amniotic fluid and hemorrhaging and, now in a panic, struggling to understand why the doctor was telling her that she needed to leave the state to be treated.
‘I Know I’m Not a Young Man’: Biden Confronts Doubters During Forceful Rally
RALEIGH, N.C. — President Joe Biden on Friday tried to beat back doubts about his fitness following a disjointed debate performance the night before, firing up a crowd of supporters with an energetic speech that accused former President Donald Trump of being a “one-man crime wave.”
Over 65, With No Place to Call Home
NEW YORK — Robert Kirk, a retired jack of many trades, finds himself homeless at age 74 after a chain of events that could happen to almost anyone. His landlady in Brooklyn died, the building’s new owner raised the rent and later evicted the tenants, and he could not find another apartment he could afford with his Social Security check.
At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
NAIROBI, Kenya — At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine said Thursday.
Supreme Court Blocks Biden Plan on Air Pollution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment.
What to Watch at the First Trump-Biden Debate
The candidates are the same. The circumstances are very different. The first presidential debate of 2024 between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday offers both men the rare chance to tilt the direction of a race that has been defined by its stability.
Iran’s Presidential Candidates Agree on One Thing: Trump Is Coming
Throughout Iran’s presidential campaign, in debates, rallies and speeches, a singular presence has hovered: Donald Trump. To hear the six candidates tell it, the former president’s victory in the 2024 White House race is a foregone conclusion. The urgent question facing Iranian voters as they go to the polls Friday, they say, is who is best suited to deal with him.
JD Vance Says He’ll Be Disappointed if Trump Doesn’t Pick Him for VP
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio has long been considered one of Donald Trump’s top running mate choices and worked as hard as anyone to win the job — raising money for the campaign, speaking with a seemingly endless stream of cable news reporters and even sitting in the Manhattan courtroom with the former president to demonstrate his support.
The Pro-Israel Donor With a $100 Million Plan to Elect Trump
WASHINGTON — As the Nevada caucuses drew to a close in February, Donald Trump and several top aides gathered for a quick dinner in a suite atop his hotel in Las Vegas before he descended and declared victory.
The Southern Border, Terrorism Fears and the Arrests of 8 Tajik Men
WASHINGTON — When eight Tajik men sought asylum at the southwestern U.S. border months ago, federal authorities had no reason to doubt that they were desperate migrants fleeing a poor country in war-torn Central Asia.
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