By Colleen Long, Associated Press President Joe Biden said Monday that his top domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, will leave her post next month. As director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Rice had broad sway on the administration’s approach to health care, immigration and racial inequality. It was a surprising shift for Rice, […]
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Pause on student loan payments is extended through May 1
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday extended a student loan moratorium that has allowed tens of millions of Americans to put off debt payments during the pandemic. Under the action, payments on federal student loans will remain paused through May 1. Interest rates will remain at 0% during […]
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House Targets Family Separations in First Trump Subpoena
By COLLEEN LONG , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of […]
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Requests To Bring In Child Brides OK’d; Legal Under US Laws
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl. The […]
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‘One of My Nightmares’: Pipe Bomb Attack Hits in NYC Subway
NEW YORK (AP) — A would-be suicide bomber inspired by Islamic State extremists strapped on a crude pipe bomb, slipped unnoticed into the nation’s busiest subway system and set the device off at rush hour Monday in a scenario that New York has dreaded for years, authorities said. In the end, the only serious wounds […]
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Man Arrested in St. Louis for Allegedly Threatening Jewish Institutions
NEW YORK (AP) — A former journalist fired for making up details in stories is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish institutions nationwide, and a bomb threat to New York’s Anti-Defamation League, in an effort to harass and vilify his former girlfriend, federal officials said Friday. Juan Thompson, 31, […]
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NY Remains are Missing Autistic Teen’s
NEW YORK (AP) — Human remains found last week along the East River belong to an autistic teen who walked out of his school more than three months ago and vanished, the medical examiner’s office said Tuesday. Avonte Oquendo’s remains — a left arm and lower torso and legs — were identified through DNA given […]
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Man convicted in 1990s NYC race riots is stabbed
NEW YORK (AP) — A black man convicted in the death of a white Jewish scholar during race riots in the 1990s has been stabbed in the head with an ice pick in a possible road rage attack, police say. Lemrick Nelson was found outside his car on a Manhattan street early Sunday and was […]