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The impact of former President Trump's Supreme Court on American life is becoming clearer every day.
Trump nominated three of the justices on the current court, delivering a 6-3 conservative majority that can carry all before it — even on deeply contentious issues.
On Thursday, the court struck a huge blow against affirmative action, finding that colleges and universities should not directly consider race as a factor in their admission process. |
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Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion striking down the Biden administration's student debt relief plan ended with a note taking aim at the court's liberal justices in defending the Supreme Court's legitimacy. Justice Elena Kagan authored the liberal justices' dissent in the court's final opinion of the term, delivering a blistering rebuttal to the court striking down the student debt plan, disagreeing on the merits of the case and whether the challengers had authority to sue in the first place. |
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The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Biden's student debt relief plan, with the court's six conservatives ruling the administration did not have the power to forgive loans for more than 40 million borrowers. The decision is a major win for Republicans who declared the plan unfair and balked at the $400 billion price tag it would have cost. |
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BY LEXI LONAS AND ALEX GANGITANO |
President Biden on Friday announced new actions to offer student loan borrowers some forgiveness, reintroducing his forgiveness plan grounded in the Higher Education Act (HEA). Using the HEA to provide student debt relief has been pushed by student loan advocates and top Democrats for years. Under the HEA, advocates argue it allows the education secretary to "compromise, waive or release" student loans. This path will require a public comment and notice period before it could go into effect. |
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| The White House on Friday argued the new pathway for student loan forgiveness is valid, legal and should be able to hold up in the Supreme Court. Hours after the court struck down his initial effort to provide debt-ridden students with relief, Biden reintroduced a program to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt. |
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Republicans are calling out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former House speaker, after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts quoted her in his majority ruling striking down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program. The court ruled 6-3 that the program, which would have forgiven thousands of dollars in student loan debt for many borrowers, that the Biden administration had not received congressional authority to grant the forgiveness. |
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The Wagner Group rebellion is expected to have a harmful ripple effect across Russia's armed forces as the Kremlin works to weed out supporters of the attempted insurrection, with internal divisions and strife likely to weaken fighting capabilities. Shakeups in Russia's military command could further impact the leadership overseeing the war in Ukraine, analysts say, while Russian soldiers already struggling with a morale issue are now exposed to political infighting and questions about loyalty. |
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BY SYLVAN LANE AND ARIS FOLLEY |
Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS will not strike Friday and are going back to the negotiating table after the delivery company gave the union a new counteroffer amid heated contract negotiations. UPS offered the Teamsters "a revised counterproposal with significant movement on wages and other economic language" Friday afternoon, the union said in a statement, though it said it was not enough to win the support of Teamsters leadership. |
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The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) updated blood donation guidelines were issued last month with the aim of being more inclusive of the LGBTQ community, but community members say the agency has left the door open for stigma and discrimination. Under the new guidelines, all donors will answer a series of "individual risk-based questions" regardless of sexual orientation, sex or gender. But people who are on PrEP, the antiretroviral medicine used to prevent HIV infection, are explicitly deferred from being allowed to donate blood. |
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Millions of travelers are set to take flight this weekend ahead of Independence Day after a week of turbulent conditions that led to thousands of delays and cancellations. Experts expect the bulk of air travel to take place this weekend into next Tuesday with the busiest day on Friday, when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to screen 2.8 million passengers. |
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OPINION | Flight delays and cancelations have been rampant this week. Though airlines get most of the criticism when flights are disrupted, the CEO of United Airlines has blamed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for being too quick to cancel flights that they have been able to manage in the past. FAA staffing shortages are likely at the root of such decisions. Implementing safe and efficient air travel is a partnership between airlines and the FAA. Indeed, if the airlines are the face of air travel, then the FAA is its blood and bones. |
BY YASMIN CADER AND JOHN POWELL |
OPINION | The vision of this country as a land of opportunity is longstanding and powerful. We ask our children, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" and tell them, "the sky is the limit." We encourage them to be doctors, teachers, artists, engineers, lawyers, and scientists — and beyond. We encourage them to pursue higher education because we want to believe the American ideal that every child who wants to go to college has a fair shot, no matter the color of their skin, who their parents are, or where they grew up. But despite our desire to create this opportunity for those who have the will, talent, and desire to achieve it, this promise of a "fair shot" remains out of the grasp for far too many. |
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BY DEBBIE TRUONG, MILLA SURJADI AND TERESA WATANABE |
Mimi Hoang rejoiced when President Biden announced plans last year to cancel thousands of dollars in student debt. The 20-year-old had taken out $30,000 in federal loans to pay for her first year at Southern Oregon University. |
BY IMANI MOISE, ISAAC YU AND ERIN MULVANEY |
When Paulette Brown graduated from a majority-white law school in 1976, an adviser at Seton Hall University told her that she should steer away from applying to the large prestigious law firms. Brown, a Black woman, was told there wasn't a place for her in that world. |
BY JOHN HUDSON AND SHANE HARRIS |
During a secret visit to Ukraine by CIA Director William J. Burns earlier this month, Ukrainian officials revealed an ambitious strategy to retake Russian-occupied territory and open cease-fire negotiations with Moscow by the end of the year, according to officials familiar with the visit. |
Former President Donald J. Trump moved on Friday to outflank Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida as they wrestled for conservative loyalties at a gathering of right-wing activists in Philadelphia, pushing a shared agenda of forcing the federal government to the right, restricting transgender rights and limiting how race and L.G.B.T.Q. issues are taught. |
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