Student loan borrowers have reason to be thankful

The Biden administration again pauses student loan repayments amid legal challenges; twin explosions rock Jerusalem.

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Biden pushes student loan repayments into 2023

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• The Biden administration has extended the pause on federal student debt repayments while courts weigh challenges to its loan forgiveness program. [CNN / Arlette Saenz and Katie Lobosco]
• In August, Biden proposed forgiving $10,000 in debt for low- and middle-income earners and $20,000 for borrowers who received Pell Grants. [NPR / Dustin Jones]
• However, a federal court issued a nationwide injunction blocking the plan after six Republican-led states argued it would harm their economies. Biden has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the program. [New York Times / Stacy Cowley and Zolan Kanno-Youngs]
• The Department of Education says payments will resume 60 days after the litigation ends. If the courts haven’t decided by June 30, the pause will be extended for another 60 days. [CNBC / Annie Nova]
• Sixteen million borrowers whose applications were approved must now wait to see if student debt cancellation prevails in court. [CBS News / Aimee Picchi]

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Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains the legal fight that could kill Biden’s student debt relief plan. [Vox / Ian Millhiser]

Bus stop blasts rock Jerusalem

• Two bus stop explosions killed one person and wounded at least 18 others in Jerusalem Wednesday in the first bomb attacks on Israeli civilians since 2016. [NYT / Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner]
• The first bomb killed a teenager and injured a dozen people. Thirty minutes later, another blast injured several others in what authorities suspect was a coordinated attack from a remote location. [CNN / Hadas Gold, Shira Gemer, and Alex Stambaugh]
• The attacks come amid heightened tensions and violence between Israel and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. [Wall Street Journal / Dov Lieber and Fatima AbdulKarim]
• On Wednesday, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Israel would find the attackers and hold them accountable. [Associated Press / Alon Bernstein and Tia Goldenberg]

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A gunman killed six people at a Virginia Walmart on Wednesday. Over 600 mass shootings have happened in the US in 2022. [Vox / Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and Ian Millhiser]

• Police beat protesters demanding better pay at Apple’s biggest iPhone factory in China. [AP / Joe McDonald and Zen Soo]
• Florida legislators have proposed changing state rules to allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024 without resigning. [Politico / Gary Fineout]
• Last week, unemployment claims jumped to 240,000 — the highest since August. [The Hill / Jared Gans] 

“It isn’t fair to ask tens of millions of borrowers eligible for relief to resume their student debt payments while the courts consider the lawsuit.”

[President Biden on extending the loan payment pause / NYT]

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