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Washington CNN — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to lift a blanket injunction on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which was intended to slash monthly payments and speed up the path to loan forgiveness. The Supreme Court rejected a request from the Biden administration to restart the program after a lower court blocked it this summer in a lawsuit brought against it by Republican-led states. There was no particular opposition to this brief order. Wednesday’s order does not immediately affect the 8 million borrowers currently enrolled in a plan introduced about a year ago known as Savings…

Six more people have died and at least 10 more have been infected in a multistate listeria outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update on Wednesday. The death toll now stands at 9. A total of 57 people have been hospitalized since the outbreak, making this the largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011, when more than 30 people died after eating infected cantaloupe, according to the CDC. Infections have been reported in 18 states. On July 25, Boar’s Head recalled its Strasburger brand liver sausage over concerns that it…

CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign stirred up new controversy this week when he visited Arlington National Cemetery to draw attention to the disorderly 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Two Trump campaign officials said someone physically prevented Trump’s team from accompanying him during the visit on Monday. A cemetery spokesperson confirmed to CNN that “an incident occurred” and that “a report has been filed,” but did not provide details. President Trump visited the cemetery following a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 13 US soldiers killed at Abbey Gate at Kabul airport, Monday marking three years since the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched the internet for events surrounding Trump and President Joe Biden, repeatedly looked up information about explosives and saw last month’s Pennsylvania campaign rally where he committed a mass shooting as an “opportunity,” a senior FBI official said Wednesday.Investigators, who conducted nearly 1,000 interviews, don’t yet know what motivated 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire on Trump during a July 13 campaign rally, but they believe Crooks developed a “thorough plan of attack” that included researching campaign activities involving both the current and former presidents, particularly…

STOUGHTON – Former Stoughton, Massachusetts police detective Matthew Farwell is accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Burchmore in 2021 while she was pregnant with what he said was her child.According to a grand jury indictment filed Tuesday in federal court, Farwell strangled Burchmore to death in her Canton apartment and then staged the scene to make it look like she had committed suicide. Burchmore’s death had been ruled a suicide by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, with no foul play involved.U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy will hold a press conference at 1:45 p.m. to announce Farwell’s arrest and charges, which…

An injured Colorado man spent the night alone in the mountains after being abandoned by a colleague during an office break, in what rescue officials said could lead to “awkward office encounters” in the coming days and weeks.Colorado’s Chaffee County Southern Search and Rescue Team (CCSAR-S) shared the hiker’s harrowing experience in a Facebook post earlier this week, saying they were dispatched to a report of a delayed hiker last Friday around 9 p.m. The hiker was on the standard route on Mount Shavano, a high peak in the Sawatch Range of the southern Rocky Mountains, and was dressed entirely…

A teenager was arrested in Nassau County, New York, over the weekend for wearing a mask in public, marking the first arrest in connection with the face covering ban signed into law by the county earlier this month. According to Nassau County Police, Weslyn Omar Ramirez Castillo, 18, of Hicksville, was arrested in Levittown on Sunday after officers responded to a report of a “suspicious male” wearing dark clothing and “a mask to hide his identity” on Spindle Road. Authorities said Ramirez-Castillo “continued to act suspiciously while attempting to hide a large bulge in his waistband,” which turned out to…

In newly resurfaced 2021 comments, Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance attacked teachers who don’t have children.In the resurfaced video, Vance, speaking at a forum hosted by the Center for Christian Virtue, is heard blaming “leaders on the left” and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for not having children.”A lot of leaders on the left don’t want to get too personal, but they’re childless people trying to brainwash the minds of children, and that really troubles me and worries me,” Vance says in the video.”Randi Weingarten, head of the most powerful teachers union in the…

A rare Bronze Age jar dating back at least 3,500 years has long adorned the entrance to the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, offering visitors an up-close look at the intact artifact thought to be older than the biblical Kings David and Solomon.That was until my 4 year old accidentally broke it earlier this week.”My first reaction was denial,” Alex, a father of a young child, told the Guardian. “I couldn’t believe my son had done it.”His son wanted to know if there was anything inside the jar, which is thought to have been used to transport local goods such…

A Bedouin Arab hostage rescued from an underground tunnel in the Gaza Strip said one of his fellow detainees died next to him during his captivity, a former Israeli official said.The Israeli army said Kaid Farhan El-Khadi was rescued on Tuesday during a “complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip.”Elkadi has yet to speak publicly, but the former mayor of a town in southern Israel said the 52-year-old had barely seen any sunlight for eight months.Elkadi’s cousin also said that his father did not receive any special treatment during his incarceration despite being Muslim. El Kadi was kidnapped by Hamas…