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WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the U.S. government will forgive $10,000 in student loans for millions of debt-saddled former college students, keeping a pledge he made in the 2020 campaign for the White House.

The move could boost support for his fellow Democrats in the November congressional elections, but some economists said it may fuel inflation and some Republicans in the U.S. Congress questioned whether the president had the legal authority to cancel the debt.Advertisement · Scroll to continueReport an ad

Debt forgiveness will free up hundreds of billions of dollars for new consumer spending that could be aimed at homebuying and other big-ticket expenses, according to economists who said this would add a new wrinkle to the country’s infla...

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STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Police in the Poconos have arrested one person and are searching for two others after an attempted homicide earlier this month.

Officers from the Stroud Area Regional Police Department were sent to the 600 block of Main Street in Stroudsburg on Sunday, August 7 for a report of a shot fired from a vehicle.

Officers found a spent .223 caliber shell casing in the roadway and a parked vehicle that was hit by the bullet, according to a news release from the Stroud Area Regional Police Department.

Police say that, through an investigation, they learned:

Williams Derosier, Kylan Coombs and Alexandra Hidalgo went to a bar on Main Street at approximately 1:30 a.m...

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R. Kelly’s Chicago trial: Everything you need to know.R&B star and convicted sex offender R. Kelly is due to face another federal jury trial this week as platoons of prosecutors and lawyers gird for a second attempt to convict him again as a sexual predator. Kelly’s next trial is due to start Monday in his hometown of Chicago, 11 months after he was convicted in a first federal trial in New York, and seven weeks after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

Convicted sex offender #RKelly is due to face another federal jury trial...

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• A former DOJ official who oversaw Hillary Clinton’s emails said documents retrieved at Mar-a-Lago were “egregious.”
• FBI agents found Trump with 11 sets of highly sensitive government information.
• One set of documents contained Sensitive Compartmented Information.

A former Justice Department official who oversaw the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails said the sensitivity of the documents that the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago was “particularly stunning and particularly egregious.”

On Monday, the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, home and seized 11 sets of classified documents from the former president. Trump is being investigated by the DOJ over whether or not he violated three federal laws, including the Espionage Act.

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If we’re all on a playground in the afterlife and we’re choosing up sides to decide who goes to heaven or hell, then my first pick is Bill Russell.

You can have anybody else you want. You take Michael Jordan, then I get LeBron James. You get Larry Bird, then I get Magic Johnson. Jerry West or Stephen Curry. And so on. They cancel each other out, pretty much, because none of their skill sets are unique. All of them — anybody you would pick with eternity on the line — would, first of all, be an offensive-end-of-the-court star.

But I’d have Russell, by far the greatest player who barely needed to touch the ball yet scored enough for the sake of proper balance without being fed...

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Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel appears in a WLKY-TV screengrab from 2016; he was discussing A+E’s ’60 Days In.’

At least 28 women have filed federal civil rights lawsuits alleging they were attacked, harassed, and sexually assaulted in a southern Indiana jail after an officer sold access to the woman’s wing of the lockup facility. Several additional plaintiffs are said to be on the way.

One complaint alleges that “multiple female inmates of the Clark County Jail” were assaulted by male inmates on the night of Oct. 24, 2021 and names Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel as the lead defendant. Also named is the since-fired employee who allegedly provided access by way of selling a key for $1,000...

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Authorities have confirmed that this is not an active shooter situation.

Gun violence: An American epidemic?

Gun violence: An American epidemic?Using research and statistics, experts examine America’s history with guns, the real-life impacts of gun violence and what can be done going forward to mitigate the problem.

One person has been killed and at least five people injured in a shooting outside a large gathering in a Seattle, Washington, suburb.

The incident occurred at approximately 1 a.m...

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“The only reason women have the right to choose is because it’s determined that there are unenumerated rights coming from the Ninth Amendment in the Constitution.” President Joe Biden spoke these words two years ago in a Democratic debate among presidential candidates.

“The which Amendment?” you might find yourself wondering—and you wouldn’t be alone. The redheaded stepchild of the Bill of Rights is undoubtedly one of the most overlooked provisions (perhaps along with the Third Amendment) of an otherwise elite group of words that are foundational to our democracy. As far as historical significance, it pales in comparison to many amendments that came decades afterward—including, notably, the Fourteenth Amendment, which seems to have stolen much of its thunder.

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Cities around the South have challenged the supremacy of coastal supercities, drawing a steady flow of creative young people. Will new abortion bans put an end to that?

Ginia Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.July 8, 2022

Imagine that you are a young woman setting out on your adult life in the United States of America in 2022. College is behind you; fulfilling personal and professional ambitions in a stimulating place is meant to come next...

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WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) – The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court has chipped away at the wall separating church and state in a series of new rulings, eroding American legal traditions intended to prevent government officials from promoting any particular faith.

In three decisions in the past eight weeks, the court has ruled against government officials whose policies and actions were taken to avoid violating the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition on governmental endorsement of religion – known as the “establishment clause.”

The court on Monday backed a Washington state publi...