A federal judge in St. Louis is weighing the fate of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans following a court hearing on Wednesday.
Author: Associated Press
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies
The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided Wednesday.
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CDC clears updated Omicron boosters for kids 5-12
The U.S. on Wednesday authorized updated COVID-19 boosters for children as young as 5, seeking to expand protection ahead of an expected winter wave.
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Social Security benefits set for largest increase in 40 years
Tens of millions of older Americans are about to get what may be the biggest raise of their lifetimes.
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NASA says defense test succeeded in shifting asteroid’s orbit
A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
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Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’ podcast
Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast “Serial.”
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Denial-of-service attacks knock US airport websites offline
An apparently coordinated denial-of-service attack organized by pro-Russia hackers rendered the websites of some major U.S. airports unreachable early Monday, though officials said flights were not affected.
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Umpires check Padres pitcher Musgrove’s ears for sticky stuff
New York manager Buck Showalter took the extraordinary step of requesting Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove be searched for banned sticky substances Sunday, a move many perceived as desperate gamesmanship that didn’t throw the pitcher off track.
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Arkansas loses 3rd straight game with 40-17 loss at Mississippi State
Bulldogs quarterback Will Rogers threw for three touchdowns and broke the SEC mark for career completions in a 40-17 win over the Razorbacks.
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2 Arkansas deputies filmed in violent arrest fired from jobs
Two Arkansas deputies who were caught on video violently arresting a suspect outside a convenience store in August have been fired, Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante said Thursday.
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Biden pardons thousands for ‘simple possession’ marijuana convictions
President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of ‘simple possession’ of marijuana under federal law.
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No. 23 Mississippi St. looks to keep rolling vs Arkansas
That No. 23 Mississippi State is ranked for the first time this season is a good indicator of how the Bulldogs are playing.
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Tyson Foods consolidates corporate offices, moves jobs to Springdale
Tyson Foods will relocate around 1,000 corporate positions from the Chicago area as well as South Dakota to its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to intervene in the Mar-a-Lago document dispute
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate.
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Herschel Walker paid for girlfriend’s abortion, report says
Herschel Walker, who has vehemently opposed abortion rights as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend in 2009, according to a new report.