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Appeals court allows part of Biden student loan repayment plan to go forward
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has allowed the U.S. Education Department to move ahead with a plan to lower monthly payments for millions of student loan borrowers, putting on hold a ruling last week by a lower court. The ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals puts...
3 killed, 2 injured in shooting near University of Cincinnati campus, police say
CINCINNATI — Three people were shot and killed and two were wounded near the University of Cincinnati campus early Monday, police said. Two people were taken into custody, including one of the wounded. Police who were in the area heard multiple gunshots and then found four males who had been...
Campus carry weapons law debuts in West Virginia, joins 11 other states
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — People with concealed carry permits can possess firearms on West Virginia public college and university campuses under a state law that debuted Monday. Institutions of higher learning can implement exceptions to the law, which bans the open carry of a firearm on campus. Similar legislation has passed...
Karen Read’s deadlocked jury leads to mistrial in Boston police officer boyfriend’s death
DEDHAM, Mass. — A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Read, a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm, a case that drew outsize attention thanks to true crime...
Judge calls Jeffrey Epstein 'most infamous pedophile in American history' as he releases transcripts
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida judge released Monday afternoon the transcripts of a 2006 grand jury investigation that looked into sex trafficking and rape allegations made against the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein. The judge’s release of the approximately 150 pages came as a surprise as he had...
What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling in Trump's 2020 election interference case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices said Monday that former presidents are shielded from prosecution...
Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges 
DANBURY, Conn. — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into custody Monday after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. Bannon arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut,...
House Republicans sue Attorney General Garland over access to Biden special counsel interview audio
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland for the audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel in his classified documents case, asking the courts to enforce their subpoena and reject the White House’s effort to withhold the materials from...
Supreme Court gives Trump some immunity, sends case back to lower court 
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president...
Supreme Court keeps hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The justices returned the cases to lower courts in challenges from trade associations for the companies....
Supreme Court rules for North Dakota truck stop in a new blow to federal regulations
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a truck stop in North Dakota that wants to sue over a regulation on...
Israel releases director of hospital it says was used as a Hamas base. He alleges abuse in custody
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday after holding him for seven months without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been used as a Hamas command center. He said he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and tortured....
German court convicts a prominent far-right politician for using a Nazi slogan again
BERLIN — A high-profile politician in the far-right Alternative for Germany party was convicted for the second time Monday of knowingly using a Nazi slogan at a political event. Björn Höcke, who plans to run for governor in the eastern state of Thuringia in September, was fined for using the...
Hurricane Beryl grows to Category 5 strength as it razes southeast Caribbean islands 
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean. Beryl ripped off doors, windows and roofs in homes across the southeastern Caribbean on Monday after making landfall on the island of Carriacou in Grenada as the earliest Category...
French voters propel far-right National Rally to strong lead in first-round legislative elections 
PARIS — The far-right National Rally leaped into a strong lead Sunday in France’s first round of legislative elections, polling agencies projected, bringing the party closer to being able to form a government in round two and dealing a major slap to centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his risky decision...
Family demands accountability for New York police killing of 13-year-old boy. Police said he aimed BB gun 
On Wednesday, Nyah Mway finished middle school in the central New York city where his family moved about a decade ago as refugees from Myanmar, relatives said. By Friday night, the 13-year-old was fatally shot by police who’d tackled him to the ground after he allegedly pointed what turned out...
How will Louisiana's new Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?
BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky. Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate religion...
Hurricane Beryl approaches the southeast Caribbean after strengthening into a Category 4 storm 
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Beryl closed in on the southeastern Caribbean late Sunday after strengthening into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as government officials pleaded with people to take shelter. The storm was expected to make landfall in the Windward Islands on Monday morning....
Ten Commandments. Multiple variations. Why the Louisiana law raises preferential treatment concerns
Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana. The required text prescribed in the new law and used on many monuments across the United States is a condensed version of the...
U.N. starts to move tons of aid from U.S.-built pier after security fears suspended work
JERUSALEM — Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said Saturday, an important step as Washington considers whether to resume pier operations after yet another pause because of...
Driver charged with DUI for New York nail salon crash that killed 4 and injured 9
DEER PARK, N.Y. — Police on Long Island have arrested a man who is accused of driving while intoxicated after he crashed his SUV into a nail salon, killing four people and injuring nine others. Suffolk County Police said Saturday that Steven Schwally had been speeding through the parking lot...
10 Ukrainians held prisoner for years in Russia return home after Vatican mediation
KYIV, Ukraine — Ten Ukrainian civilians held prisoner for years by Russia arrived in Kyiv overnight Saturday after the mediation of the Vatican, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. They were freed Friday. Some had been captured years before Russia’s full-scale invasion. The pope has said the Holy See has been...
Tropical Storm Beryl swirls toward southeast Caribbean, threatens to strengthen into hurricane
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Beryl chugged toward the southeast Caribbean on Saturday and could strengthen into the year’s first hurricane before reaching Barbados late Sunday. A hurricane watch was issued for Barbados as the island’s meteorological service warned of flash flooding and power outages. Beryl is expected...
Judge partially ends court oversight of migrant children
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Friday approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant children in its custody. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled special court supervision may end at the U.S. Health and...
Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children. The ruling from the all-Republican court leaves in place a law that has been in effect...


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