Last Summer, the Supreme Court
After the Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's first plan to forgive student debt, his administration set out to create a more viable relief package.
The White House continues to court social media influencers on TikTok, despite President Joe Biden threatening their very livelihood by supporting a ban on their platform.
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BATON ROUGE - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday a Baton Rouge police officer's trial against Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson may proceed, but justices wouldn't weigh in on what they thought of Mckesson's claim that he enjoyed First Amendment protection for his actions.Former BRPD officer Brad Ford was hit in the face with a piece of asphalt thrown by protesters in the days after the shooting of Alton Sterling. Ford says Mckesson is responsible because he summoned a crowd to Baton...
Melissa Witt vanished when she went to surprise her mother at a bowling alley. LaDonna Humphrey, a PI, has dedicated a decade to hunting down Witt's killer. Humphrey believes she has found a likely suspect who will face charges this year
Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, for roughly four decades, but for the last five of those years, she’s had no home in which to live. She’s not alone. Her small mountain town with a population of 39,189 provides no public homeless shelters. She is among up to 600 people experiencing […]
The court said the expression of regret must be as conspicuous as the misleading advertisements that the company had put out.
The case is expected to be set for argument in the fall.
The Federal Trade Commission is warning about scammers targeting people with promises to cancel their student loans, and critics say President Joe Biden fueled the fire himself. Biden has been pledging to cancel student loans since the 2020 presidential campaign and has rolled out a wide range of programs and proposals toward that end. While his […]
Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Student IDs For Voting Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court of Idaho on Thursday, April 11, upheld recent legislative amendments to the state’s voter identification requirements, affirming a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Idaho Secretary of State, Phil McGrane, which eliminated the use of student IDs for voter registration and in-person voting. The unanimous ruling came in light of the suit filed by...
Michael RaineyApril 16, 2024The Department of Education on Tuesday released a first set of draft rules for President Joe Biden’s proposed plan