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President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay, ordering the Biden administration not to act on the program while it considers a motion from six Republican-led states to block loan cancellation.

FILE - Vehicles pass crosses placed to honor the victims of the shootings at Robb Elementary School, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety has fired an officer who was at the scene of the school massacre and becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May attack. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas state police fire first officer over Uvalde school massacre response

The officer becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May school attack that killed 19 children and two teachers.

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks over as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang raises his hand to vote at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the nation's No. 2 official and a chief proponent of economic reforms, is among four of the seven members of the nation's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee who will not be reappointed in a leadership shuffle Sunday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China's Communist Party moves to solidify Xi Jinping's power in leadership shuffle

Two notable members were removed from the upper leadership ranks. The congress also approved the addition of new wording to the party charter that cements Xi's role as the so-called core of the party.

Chinese families navigate a maze of laws and COVID rules to have babies in the U.S.

There's a well-established industry centered in California that provides surrogate births and attracts Chinese mothers to the U.S. to engage in what's known as birth tourism.

Experiments in IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg’s lab at at Berkeley Way West in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering) Lars Berscheid - lars.berscheid@kit.edu Yahav Avigal - yahav_avigal@berkeley.edu

The fastest ever laundry-folding robot is here. And it's likely still slower than you

Researchers and companies have tried over the years to automate the chore with limited success. Using a brand new method, researchers have taught a robot to fold a record 30-40 garments per hour.

What's the origin of the Cuban sandwich? Researchers set out to settle the debate

The origin of the sandwich has been a long-standing debate between Tampa and Miami, which both claim ownership. The truth is neither came up with it.

FILE - Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" in New York on Nov. 16, 2009. McCarthy has two novels coming out this fall, his first fiction releases since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” in 2006. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday, March 8, 2022, that “The Passenger,” would come out Oct. 25 and “Stella Maris,” a prequel to “The Passenger” set eight years earlier, is scheduled for Nov. 22. The two works will be available as a box set on Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

After 16 years, author Cormac McCarthy gifts two new novels to readers

Neither of the reclusive author's interconnected books The Passenger and Stella Maris contains the savagery and bloodletting his readers have come to expect — there's less action and more dialogue.

Milk Street: Moroccan Flatbread (Ep 604)

Moroccan Flatbreads (Khobz)Start to finish: 2 hours (20 minutes active), plus coolingMakes three 7-inch loavesKhobz is a Moroccan yeasted flatbread that…

DOVER, DELAWARE - OCTOBER 21: U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks on student debt relief at Delaware State University on October 21, 2022 in Dover, Delaware. Yesterday a federal judge ruled that six states trying to block President's student loan forgiveness program lacked standing. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden's student debt relief plan is temporarily blocked. Here's what you need to know.

Nearly 22 million people — more than half of qualifying borrowers — have signed up. The Biden administration says it is continuing to accept and review applications during the temporary hold.

RIO GRANDE CITY, TX - DECEMBER 07: An immigrant from El Salvador, seven months pregnant, she said, stands next to a U.S. Border Patrol truck after turning herself in to border agents on December 7, 2015 near Rio Grande City, Texas. Many pregnant women, according to Border Patrol agents, cross illegally into the U.S. late into their terms with the intention of birthing their babies in the United States. All people born in the U.S. are American Citizens, according to the U.S. constitution. Border Patrol agents continue to detain hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants trying to avoid capture after crossing into the United States, even as migrant families and unaccompanied minors from Central America cross and turn themselves in to the Border Patrol to seek assylum. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The ACLU and others urge border authorities to limit detention of pregnant migrants

Advocacy groups and doctors are asking U.S. Customs and Border Protection to expedite the intake proceedings for women and others who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing as well as infants.

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