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Biden pushing ahead with new student debt relief plan after Supreme Court ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is moving forward on a new student debt relief plan after the Supreme Court struck down his original initiative to provide relief to 43 million borrowers. Pr...

Jun 30, 2023

Tajik man fatally shoots two officers at a Moldova airport after he was denied entry, officials say

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - A Tajikistan national who was denied entry into Moldova at its main international airport grabbed a guard's weapon and fatally shot two security officers Friday, officials sai...

Jun 30, 2023

Brazil court votes to bar Bolsonaro from elections until 2030

SAO PAULO (AP) - A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfo...

Jun 30, 2023

The Supreme Court will decide if some judges have gone too far in striking down gun restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) - A year after its sweeping gun rights ruling, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether judges are going too far in striking down restrictions on firearms. The justices will h...

Jun 30, 2023

Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban, says state constitution gives only limited protections

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's abortion ban doesn't violate the state constitution, removing a major hurdle to enforcing the ban Republicans approved last ...

Jun 30, 2023

Fiery protests grip France for 3rd night over deadly police shooting of a teenager

NANTERRE, France (AP) - French protesters erected barricades, lit fires and shot fireworks at police in the streets of some French cities early Friday morning as tensions mounted over the deadly polic...

Jun 29, 2023

Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida sheriff's deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, concluding the fir...

Jun 29, 2023

Political consultant gets 24 years for paying hitmen to kill a colleague

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey political consultant who had two hitmen kill a colleague for $15,000 was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on Thursday. Sean Caddle, a one-time Democratic campai...

Jun 29, 2023

Transgender Kansas residents can keep updating their documents despite a new law, governor says

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Democratic governor in Kansas declared Thursday that the state will keep allowing transgender residents to alter their driver's licenses and birth certificates, despite a new l...

Jun 29, 2023

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95

ATLANTA (AP) - Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her "beloved aunt" died Thursday. She was 95....

Jun 29, 2023