Supreme Court agrees to hear another challenge to Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and leaves program blocked

CNN — The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hold arguments in a second case in February concerning President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, which is currently on hold.

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Helicopter raid kills Islamic State officials in Syria, US says

A U.S. helicopter raid killed two members of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria early Sunday morning local time, U.S. Central Command announced later that day.

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Golden Globe noms led by ‘Banshees,’ ‘Everything Everywhere’

NEW YORK (AP) — After scandal and boycott plunged the Hollywood Foreign Press Association into disarray and knocked its annual award show off television for a year, the Golden Globes geared up Monday for its return by showering nominations on the black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and the multiverse mash-up “Everything Everywhere all at Once.”

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‘Never quit learning’: 90-year-old great-grandmother, who first started college in 1951, graduates from Northern Illinois University

Few people finish their college education in a retirement facility. But that’s what it took for 90-year-old Joyce DeFauw to complete her bachelor’s degree in General Studies from Northern Illinois University, a milestone nearly seven decades in the making.

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As attendance dips, churches change to stay relevant for a new wave of worshippers

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s Sunday morning and a small group sits around a fire pit in a community garden under the limbs of an expansive box elder tree. Church is about to start. And it’s cold.

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Pan Am Flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in custody, DOJ confirms

The Lockerbie bombing suspect was taken into custody on Sunday.

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The Trump campaign that isn’t

Four weeks after declaring his 2024 White House bid, former President Trump appears to be a candidate in name only.

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Strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shakes southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY — A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico Sunday morning, sending nervous residents of the capital into the street.

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Inside Republican Party, pressure to change course, leadership after midterm losses

The GOP’s broader reckoning over former President Donald Trump and a dispiriting midterm cycle has ignited a firestorm at a Republican National Committee gearing up for a fierce race for its chairmanship and a possibly hostile presidential primary.

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On this day in history, Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts become last humans to walk on the moon

The U.S.-crewed spaceflight to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972, was known as Apollo 17 — also known as the final flight of the Apollo program.

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