British police – “wealthy Russian businessman” has been arrested at his multimillion-dollar London home on potential money-laundering suspicions, and later released on bail. The National Crime Agency did not identify the man in its December 3 statement. But Russian state news agency TASS identified the man as Mikhail Fridman, a Russian-Ukrainian billionaire and one of the principals behind the Alfa Group conglomerate. In its statement, the crime agency said a 58-year-old man was among three men who were arrested by officers from the Combating Kleptocracy Cell on December 1 at a “multimillion-pound

Jerry Jones, embroiled in controversy after a photo emerged of him at a pro-segregation rally 65 years ago, was spotted looking carefree in Miami during the city’s Art Week. Jones, 80, has been in the headlines since last week when The Washington Post unearthed a snap of him at 14, standing in the back of a group of white students at North Little Rock High in Arkansas in 1957 as the mob tries to block black students from entering.WaPo ran it as part of a larger article on Jones’ failure to hire a black head coach years later. He told the broadsheet he was there

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s niece was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight and arrested after she accused a Latino family of “smuggling cocaine” — and allegedly injured six sheriff’s deputies, one of whom was bitten. Shannon Epstein, 25, allegedly caused the ruckus on a 6 a.m. flight from New Orleans, Louisiana to New Jersey on Thanksgiving Day. She asked a Latino family sitting nearby if they were “smuggling cocaine,” Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jason Rivarde told NOLA.com. Epstein, the niece of the failed 2016 Republican

A trickle of high-profile sexual abuse lawsuits passing through New York’s civil courts is likely to become a flood in the coming months because of a new, one-year window for time-expired claims.Already, some bold-faced names from the worlds of arts, finance, and politics have become involved, including Donald Trump and banker Leon Black.A broad legislative sweep, the New York Adult Survivors Act, allows for adult survivors to file lawsuits and for the alleged abusers or their estates, as well as businesses and institutions that enabled the conduct by ignoring or encouraging

Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months of working to complete the construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country’s ambitious space program, state TV reported. A capsule carrying commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at approximately 8:10 p.m. (1210 GMT), China Central Television reported. Prior to departure, they overlapped for almost five days with three colleagues who arrived Wednesday on the Shenzhou-15mission for

Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so called morality police and is considering altering the requirement that women cover their heads in public, a move that analysts said was aimed at peeling away support for anti government protests.Mohammad Jafar Montazeri outlined the steps Saturday, saying the law requiring veils, known as hijabs, was under review by Iran’s Parliament and judiciary, and that the morality police had been abolished, according to government-run news agencies.President Ebrahim Raisi echoed his remarks in a televised speech

A post Thanksgiving uptick in covid-19 patients at U.S. hospitals is arriving even as health systems contend with waves of feverish, coughing people stricken with RSV and influenza infections.Covid hospitalizations last week reached their highest level in three months, with more than 35,000 patients being treated, according to Washington Post data tracking. National hospitalizations had stagnated throughout the fall but started rising in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. All but a few states reported per capita increases in the past week.Public health authorities are concerned

Authorities were investigating widespread power outages in south central North Carolina overnight as intentional criminal acts, the sheriff of Moore County said in a statement late Saturday. An estimated 45,000 customers were without electricity late Saturday, with no estimate on a restoration time because a number of facilities are involved and the work will be complicated, said Jeff Brooks, a spokesperson for utility Duke Energy. Utility company Duke Energy said nearly 38,000 customers were without power in Moore County, while the Randolph Electric Membership Corporation

Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava Sunday in its latest eruption. Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari. Several villages were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported. Several hundred residents, their faces smeared with volcanic dust and rain, fled to temporary shelters or left for other safe

An Arizona polygamist cult leader had 20 wives aged as young as nine, married his own daughter, and drove his spouses around in a trailer with a bucket for a toilet, it is claimed. A new FBI affidavit has revealed shocking allegations against Bentley-driving Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, who was arrested in Arizona earlier this year. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, is accused by witnesses of ‘marrying’ up to 20 women and girls as young as nine, including his own daughter, according to the affidavit filed on Friday, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. He has been in federal custody on

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Saturday the ELN rebel group has agreed to allow a displaced Indigenous community to return to its lands in the west of the nation, the first significant achievement in 12 days of peace talks. The ELN, or National Liberation Army, is the sole leftist insurgency yet to lay down weapons in Colombia.”The first point of agreement that we reached with the ELN — in barely a week of these dialogues — is the return of the indigenous Embera people … to their reservations,” Petro said in a public appearance in Dabeiba, a town in northwestern Colombia

Chevron Corp. scored a reversal of fortunes in Venezuela last weekend after the U.S. government allowed it to pump oil there again, but its new license to operate carries considerable risk.The oil giant will have to partner with an authoritarian regime accused of crimes ranging from human rights violations to sprawling corruption to state-sponsored narcotics trafficking.Days after the U.S. authorized Chevron’s return, the company’s top executive there met with Venezuela’s oil minister, a man the U.S. has accused of drug smuggling. Tareck El Aissami, who denies the U.S.

The government of El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation’s capital Saturday to search for gang members. The operation was one of the largest mobilizations yet in President Nayib Bukele’s nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs that long extorted money from businesses and ruled many neighborhoods of the capital, San Salvador. The troops blocked roads going in and out of the township of Soyapango, checking people’s documents. Special teams went into the town looking for gang suspects.”Starting now,

Financial technology firms at the front lines of approving loans through the Paycheck Protection Program — intended to help small businesses survive during the pandemic — lacked fraud controls, chased high fees to the detriment of some borrowers, and sometimes exploited their business relationships to arrange suspect loans for the companies’ own executives. One such executive falsely claimed in loan documents to be a Black veteran and received loans through multiple business entities.These are among the findings in a report released Thursday by the House

TikTok Star Noodle, a pug, known for sleeping and forecasting the day’s vibe, died Friday at the age of 14. New York City-based Jonathan Graziano took to TikTok to announce the news to his 4.4 million followers the following day.”This is incredibly sad. It’s incredibly difficult,” Graziano said teary-eyed. “It’s a day that I always knew was coming but never thought would arrive.”Noodle died at his home in his arms, Graziano said.”I want to encourage you to celebrate him while we’re navigating this sadness,” Graziano said. “He lived 14 and half years, which is about as long as you can

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about U.S. surveillance programs, swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and has collected his Russian passport, his lawyer told state media on Friday.“Edward received a Russian passport yesterday and took the oath in accordance with the law,” lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. “He is, of course, happy, thanking the Russian Federation for the fact that he received citizenship,” he continued. “And most importantly, under the Constitution of Russia,

The White House issued a stern rebuke on Saturday after former president Donald Trump suggested suspending the Constitution in his ongoing crusade to discredit the results of the 2020 election.“Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement, calling the Constitution a “sacrosanct document.”“You cannot only love America when you win,” he added. Trump’s message on the Truth Social platform reiterated the baseless claims he has made

Police in Idaho says they still have no viable suspects in the massacre of four University of Idaho students in their home last month, while the two roommates who survived the attack have spoken out in gut-wrenching statements.Killed in the November 13 stabbing attack in their off-campus home were: Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.In a statement on Saturday, the Moscow Police Department said it had received thousands of tips, but that at this time, no suspect has been identified.’ Local cops and Moscow Police

Lionel Messi marked his 1,000th professional game with his first goal in the knockout stage of a World Cup, leading Argentina into the quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over Australia on Saturday. With a flourish of his famous left foot in the 34th minute, Messi put Argentina ahead with his third goal at this year’s tournament and ninth in total at the World Cup — one more than Diego Maradona. Julián Álvarez pounced on a heavy touch by Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan to tap into an empty net for the second goal as Argentina set up a meeting with the Netherlands in the

An advertising slowdown, economic worries, and strains of the shift to streaming have many major media companies in cost-cutting and layoff mode. News organizations, TV networks, movie and television studios, and entertainment giants laid off hundreds of workers over the past week alone, including Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.’s CNN and Paramount Global television-production units. The moves come after many entertainment companies spent the past few years spending heavily on streaming services that are now a drag on financial results. Traditional broadcast and cable

The United States’ run at the 2022 World Cup is over after falling 3-1 to Netherlands squad. The USMNT had several promising chances in the match but failed to convert them into goals. The Dutch, on the other hand, capitalized when given the chance to press the advantage or punish the US for a mistake. While the United States head home, the Netherlands awaits the winner of Saturday’s Argentina-Australia match. The full-time whistle blows, and it’s a Netherlands 3-1 win over the United States. The Americans’ run in Qatar comes to an end in the round of 16. Before this

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Serena Williams, and a slew of other A-listers celebrated Art Basel Miami’s 20th year at Wayne and Cynthia Boich’s star-studded party on Friday night.“Everyone who was anyone was there,” one partygoer told Page Six of the annual “After Dark” party at the Boich’s private mansion, which kicked off with a nearly 1-hour performance by 50 Cent. The legendary rapper took the stage at around 11 p.m. to perform his big hits, including “Candy Shop,” “Just a Lil Bit,” “P.I.M.P.,” “In Da Club” and “Disco Inferno.”Meanwhile, DiCaprio, who has been

One of the high-level Twitter executives who reportedly played “a key role” in the company’s decision to censor The Post’s bombshell story on Hunter Biden’s laptop has a long history of being accused of suppressing conservative voices. Twitter’s former top lawyer Vijaya Gadde was singled out in an explosive Twitter thread on Friday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who purportedly obtained communications between top officials at the social media company in the wake of The Post’s October 2020 story on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. “The decision was made at the

Companies across the U.S., including several startups, are developing electric air taxis that aim to take cars off the road and put people in the sky.Commercial airlines, specifically, are investing in this type of technology to make trips to and from the airport shorter and faster for consumers.In October, Delta Air Lines joined the list of airlines backing EV technology startups, with a $60 million investment in Joby Aviation, a company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), intended to operate as an air taxi service.In 2021, when Joby announced its plan to launch

The Brazilian football legend Pelé is receiving palliative care after chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer stopped having the expected results, it has been reported. Pelé, 82, who is widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday to re-evaluate his cancer treatment and was later diagnosed with a respiratory infection, according to medical reports. Folha de S. Paulo reported that chemotherapy had now been suspended and that Pelé was under palliative care, being treated only for symptoms such as pain and shortness of

Apple has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people involved in the discussions. It is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam, they say, and looking to reduce dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by Foxconn increase; green up pointing triangle Technology Group. Turmoil at a place called iPhone City helped propel Apple’s shift. At the giant city-within-a-city in

Donald Trump knew about a 15-year tax fraud carried out by longtime executives at his namesake company, a prosecutor argued Friday, saying the illegal activity ended when the company cleaned up its business practices around the time Trump entered the White House.At the close of the Trump Organization’s criminal trial, prosecutors introduced the idea that Trump had knowledge of crimes committed by his top deputies. The claim was a way of supporting their theory that the real estate, hospitality and golf company is criminally culpable for and benefited from tax cheating

The Pentagon and defense contractor Northrop Grumman unveiled the U.S. military’s bomber of the future on Friday, showcasing an aircraft cloaked in secrecy for years and set to serve as a backbone of Air Force combat operations for decades to come.The B-21 Raider, with a distinctive batwing shape, was pulled forward out of a hangar here while awash in blue light as cinematic music played and Northrop Grumman employees cheered. The ceremony was held at the company’s facility at Air Force Plant 42, a heavily guarded, government-owned manufacturing facility

More than 1,000 union employees at the New York Times have pledged to walk out for 24 hours if the news publisher does not agree to a ‘complete and equitable contract’ by December 8.NYT NewsGuild Unit Chair Bill Baker issued the walkout threat in a letter to Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on Friday, a copy of which the union also posted on Twitter. Arguing that their paychecks have been ‘eviscerated by soaring inflation’ while the company enjoys fat profits, the union members demanded ‘wages that keep up with inflation and are

Elon Musk has vowed to release additional internal documents later today illuminating Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, gave journalist Matt Taibbi access to the explosive documents, which he first began to publish excerpts of on the social media site on Friday evening. The first installment of what Musk has dubbed the ‘Twitter Files’ included internal Twitter emails appearing to show staffers censoring tweets at the behest of the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.They also showed Twitter executives in foot-dragging

The body of a seven-year-old girl has been found in Texas two days after she was allegedly abducted by a FedEx driver who was dropping off a package at her home. Athena Strand was found dead on Friday night, police in Wise County, northwest of Dallas, confirmed. Investigators revealed she likely died ‘within an hour of being kidnapped from where she lived in Paradise. The suspect, 31-year-old Tanner Horner, of Lake Worth, confessed to Athena’s kidnap and killing, it is alleged. Police revealed how digital evidence together with interviews suggests the little girl did not live more

The Cuba ransomware gang extorted more than $60 million in ransom payments from victims between December 2021 and August 2022, a joint advisory from CISA and the FBI has warned. The latest advisory is a follow-up to a flash alert released by the FBI in December 2021, which revealed that the gang had earned close to $44 million in ransom payments after attacks on more than 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors in the United States. Since the Cuba ransomware gang has brought in an additional $60 million from attacks against 100 organizations globally, almost half

A Georgia man was arrested for allegedly shooting a 15-year-old boy who was at his front door campaigning for Sen. Raphael Warnock in his runoff election with Republican challenger Herschel Walker.“At this point, there is no indication the shooting was politically motivated,” Savannah Police said in a statement. Thursday’s shooting of the boy, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries to his leg, came five days before the runoff between the Democratic incumbent Warnock and the former football star Walker. Neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in

Survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against the city, the school district, multiple law enforcement agencies and individual officers present that day, court documents show. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin, lists the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s police department, the Uvalde Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, as well as individual officers from each of these agencies as defendants.Texas DPS Chief Steve McCraw, one of the highest-

MUMBAI, India – At dusk, as neighborhood children toss a ball around in a park lined with palm trees on the outskirts of Mumbai, Ashwini Kumar looks on from a bench nearby.Watching them shout and cheer about their favorite soccer superstar – Ronaldo! Messi! – is painful for him. It reminds him of his big brother.”We used to play soccer together almost every evening when we were kids, in a park just like this one,” Kumar, 24, recalls. “We played and played until it was so dark you couldn’t see the ball!”As they grew up, Vinod’s love of soccer grew. He even won some local

Los Angeles County is set to reinstate indoor-mask mandates as local COVID-19 infections and related hospital admissions continue to surge.“There is this common line of thinking that the pandemic is over and COVID is no longer of concern, but these numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us,” County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said at a press conference Thursday. The county now averages more than 2,700 new COVID infections per day, up 180% since Nov. 1. Virus-related hospital admissions are now at 192 per day, a 200% increase from the same

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, on the hook for more than $1 billion because of lies he spread about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, has filed for bankruptcy, court documents showed Friday. In seeking Chapter 11 protection, the Infowars host filed boilerplate bankruptcy documents in Texas, claiming he was worth $1 million to $10 million and had debts of $1 billion to $10 billion. The filing comes weeks after a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack for

Russian President Vladimir Putin fell down the stairs and soiled himself this week amid mounting speculation that his health is declining, an anti-Kremlin Telegram channel with apparent links to his security team reported. Putin, 70, suffered the unfortunate fall at his Moscow official residence on Wednesday evening, according to the Telegram channel “General SVR,” which purports to be run by a former Russian spy. The ailing Russian leader allegedly fell down five steps before landing on his coccyx, or tailbone. Although his security guards immediately rushed to his aid, the impact of

At least four U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the same facility in Virginia died by suicide in the last few weeks, including one as recently as Saturday, military officials and family members said.It is the latest cluster of Navy suicides this year to spark concerns of a fleetwide mental health crisis.The four sailors worked for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), which maintains military ships and is based in Norfolk, Virginia.“I was inundated with the amount of hopelessness at that command,” said Kayla Arestivo, a licensed counselor who was brought in two

The U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in November; the Labor Department said Friday, a sign of continued strength in the labor market. The jobless rate remained at 3.7%.The job market has remained resilient this year, with employers still seeking to hire despite an uncertain economic outlook and elevated recession fears. Low unemployment and wage gains have helped fuel consumer spending, the economy’s main engine.One big question is how long that strength can last as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises interest rates to tame inflation. Some companies in technology,

Five years after they were first revealed, the first Tesla Semi trucks were delivered to customers at an event at the company’s Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada, Thursday. The trucks, which were first unveiled in concept form back in 2017, were supposed to go into production in 2019 but were delayed for a variety of reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic and a global parts shortage. Representatives from PepsiCo, which reserved 100 Semis shortly after its reveal, were on hand to receive the first batch of trucks. Tesla says the Semi is powered by four independent

U.S. regulators granted SpaceX permission to launch up to 7,500 upgraded satellites for its Starlink internet business but withheld approval for a larger network sought by the Elon Musk-led business. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that deploying more SpaceX satellites would be in the public interest, but it stopped short of immediately clearing the nearly 30,000 satellites it requested. The agency’s order, however, left the door open for further deployments by the company in the future.The agency said in the order that it decided to limit the authorization to 7,500

The infant son of a California tech honcho overdosed on fentanyl he found while crawling around a playground in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood, according to his frightened father and nanny. The 10-month-old twin, Sena, was playing with his brother at George Moscone Park in the Marina District on Tuesday afternoon when he began struggling to breathe and turned blue, his nanny Wendy Marroqui said.“I shook him, and I’m like, something’s wrong,” Marroqui told wral.com. “I saw his face and he was dizzy. I thought he was not breathing.”She said the baby had

Jennifer Siebel Newsom lied about being raped by Harvey Weinstein because she can’t “square away” the fact she had “transactional” sex with the former movie mogul, his lawyers charged Thursday. The wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom — referred to throughout Weinstein’s current sexual assault trial as Jane Doe 4 — gave an “overly dramatized” performance on the stand to cover up the shame she felt for having consensual sex with Weinstein, defense attorney Alan Jackson said. In his closing argument at Los Angeles Superior Court, Jackson said despite all

On Thursday night, the youngest-ever French president and the oldest-ever American president toasted each other during the White House’s first state dinner in more than three years, since before the pandemic swept away millions of lives and froze Washington’s fancy rituals. Emmanuel Macron, three weeks from turning 45, raised a slender crystal Baccarat flute of California brut rosé to President Biden, freshly 80, whose vessel reportedly contained the divine elixir of the teetotaler: ginger ale.“To the history that binds and the values that still unite us,” Biden said on a

A judge in Arizona on Thursday ordered the governing board of a ruby-red county in the southeastern corner of the state to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election, finding that its members had no authority to shirk a duty required under state law.“You will meet today,” Superior Court Judge Casey F. McGinley told the three members of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. “You will canvass the election no later than 5 o’clock.”When the board convened at 3:30 p.m., with one Republican absent, the two remaining supervisors, one Republican and one Democrat voted to

A federal appeals court panel has scrapped former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit aimed at derailing the FBI’s investigation of classified records stashed at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left the White House.The three-judge panel’s unsparing ruling moves to shut down an outside review of the Justice Department’s use of nearly 3,000 documents the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August. And it deals Trump a devastating legal setback as he seeks to block the criminal probe into his purported retention of national security information, theft

After making antisemitic comments and praising Hitler on Thursday, the rapper Ye has been suspended from Twitter. The account for Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, read as “account suspended” early Friday.Twitter owner Elon Musk said it would be suspended after a post on Ye’s account Thursday night showed an image that appeared to show a swastika inside a Star of David. The post was then blocked by Twitter for violating its rules. Musk wrote on the platform that the suspension was “for incitement to violence.” The length of the suspension was not

A federal judge has ordered former top Trump White House lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony, rejecting former President Donald Trump’s privilege claims in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of his effort to overturn the 2020 election, people briefed on the matter said. Pat Cipollone, the Trump White House counsel, and his deputy, Patrick Philbin, appeared in September before the grand jury in Washington, DC, as part of the Justice Department probe, which is now being overseen by newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith.Cipollone and

Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in 2020 -‘The more you submit, the more we get paid: How fintech fueled covid aid fraud – “The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology company Blueacorn raced to review small businesses that sought federal loans.Speeding through applications, Blueacorn employees and contractors allegedly began to overlook possible signs of fraud, according to interviews and communications later amassed by investigators on Capitol Hill. The company weighed whether to

CNN’s sister news station HLN will stop producing live programming starting next week as part of the cable network’s plan to cut costs. Longtime HLN anchor Robin Meade will be leaving amid the shake-up. “I want to take a moment to thank Robin Meade,” Chris Licht, chief executive at CNN, wrote in a memo to staff Thursday that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “She is not only an exceptionally popular anchor but also one of the longest-running morning hosts in history. I know the HLN audience will miss her and the other HLN talent.”Mr. Licht warned staff on Wednesday

LastPass, a major password manager, says it has suffered its second breach in three months by the same unauthorized party.LastPass CEO Karim Toubba announced Wednesday that the company detected “unusual activity” within a third-party cloud storage service but that customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted.”We immediately launched an investigation, engaged Mandiant, a leading security firm, and alerted law enforcement,” Toubba wrote in a statement. An unauthorized party gained access to parts of the LastPass development environment during a four-day

The Senate reached an agreement Thursday to hold votes aimed at avoiding an economically catastrophic rail strike, one day after the House approved such a measure. The chamber decided to hold three votes in succession, all requiring 60 votes for approval. The Senate typically takes days of procedural votes to pass a bill, but lawmakers reached a unanimous agreement, in this case, to vote within minutes. The first vote was an amendment by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, that would extend the “cooling off period” giving the relevant parties an extra 60 days beyond the Dec. 8 deadline to

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether the Biden administration can cancel student-loan debt for millions of Americans, putting the matter on a fast-track timeline that should produce a final ruling by the end of June. The court, in an unsigned order, didn’t act on the administration’s emergency request that it be allowed to move forward with the debt relief immediately. But the justices set arguments on the matter for this winter, agreeing to the White House’s alternative request that the court takes up the case now to decide whether the debt forgiveness is a