Seventy-five percent of voters who say they are Democrats want Jackson confirmed as the first black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States. Rather than the rest of Democrats really opposing Jackson, 20 percent are indifferent to her confirmation, while only 5 percent of Democrats oppose it.
(AP) – The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company´s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News delayed the opening of the trial Monday, raising the prospect that the two sides might attempt to settle before the eagerly watched case goes before a jury.
Single parents who earn up to $125,000 per year and married parents earning up to $250,000 per year stand to have $10,000 in debt erased. Parents who received a Pell Grant to pay for their college education would get an additional $10,000 wiped from their balance.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Russia´s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday expressed gratitude to Brazil for its approach in pushing for an end to hostilities in Ukraine – an effort that has irked both Kyiv and the West, and by afternoon prompted an unusually sharp rebuke from the White House.
“Right now, homophobes have received a validation from the government to attack people,” the 26-year-old said, standing in a room decorated with somber portraits from a global project called “Where Love is Illegal.”
Makia Green stands outside her Washington home on June 12, 2023. As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester. As a borrower who still owes just over $20,000 on her undergraduate student loans, she has been counting on President Joe Biden’s promised debt relief to wipe nearly all that away. Now, both affirmative action and the student loan cancellation plan – policies that disproportionately help Black students – could soon be dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
“If both of these are struck down, it will send a very clear signal that our court system does not support the most vulnerable populations, especially those who helped build this country,” McGuire said.
Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference that there was a “racial component” Thursday night when Andrew Lester twice shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who is recovering at home after being released from the hospital.
“These are intergenerational debts,” says Alpha Taylor, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center in Washington, D.C., focused on student loans.
“The parents have their own student loans, so they have their own debt that they´re carrying. And on top of that, they´re carrying their children´s debt, and the children are also in debt.”
“There is no question that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. But there is a difference between material that is obscene´ in the vernacular, and material that isobscene´ under the law,” Parker said.
In announcing her departure from politics, Ms Cusack said: ‘The idea that being a flood victim in a National Party-held seat makes you more worthy than a flood victim who is in the Richmond electorate…
In January, the Department of Education unveiled details of a repayment plan overhaul that could halve monthly payments for many federal student loan borrowers.
But one group, the 3.7 million parents who owe parent PLUS loans, won´t benefit. Policymakers have long excluded parent PLUS loans from most relief, though the program looks much different today than it did during its 1980 debut.
Parents, who can borrow up to the total cost of attendance per child (minus other federal aid) with PLUS loans, use the loans to fill funding gaps after their student hits the borrowing limit of no more than $7,500 per year from the government.
“By 10 p.m. (on Friday) we were able to rescue the survivors. After that it was about picking up dead bodies,” Sudhanshu Sarangi, director of Odisha state’s fire and emergency department, told The Associated Press.
About half of the average debt held by Black and Hispanic borrowers would be wiped out, according to the White House. Six Republican-led states filed a legal challenge questioning whether the president, a Democrat, has authority to forgive the debt.
Four income-driven repayment plans are available for federal student loans, but parent PLUS loan borrowers are eligible for only the . Payments are capped at 20% of a borrower´s monthly discretionary income for 25 years.
Any remaining debt is forgiven after that time.
Navalny has become Russia´s most famous political prisoner – and not just because of his prominence as Putin’s fiercest political foe, his poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin, and his being the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary.
The rulings could also have political consequences among a generation of young voters of color who took Biden at his word when he promised to cancel debt, said Wisdom Cole, director of NAACP´s youth and college program.
