Student loans have been paused for three years. Now, SoFi, a company that refinances student loans is suing to block President Biden’s latest pause extension. The bank says its federal student loan refinancing business has suffered because borrowers have little incentive to refinance while payments and interest remain on hold. The company claims in the…

The Supreme Court is set to review whether an entire federal agency is unconstitutional. This week, it announced it would take up another challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined its funding structure violated the constitution. The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to…

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on President Biden’s plan to forgive $10 thousand to $20 thousand in student debt for 43 million people. The justices are considering two cases: Biden v. Nebraska, which was brought forward by a group of states, and Department of Education v. Brown, filed on behalf of two individual borrowers.…

The U.S. Department of Energy has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China; several tornadoes stretched across the central U.S. overnight; the Supreme Court is taking up Biden’s student loan program this week; and a lawsuit has been filed over the streaming rights of South Park. These stories…

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is looking at whether to narrow Section 230, a foundational internet shield law that passed in 1996. But even some of the justices are grappling with that role. “I mean, we’re a court, we don’t really know about these things. These are not, like, the nine greatest experts on…

The Supreme Court will hear two cases this week that have major implications for the future of the internet. Google and Twitter are both facing lawsuits by families of victims killed in separate ISIS attacks, challenging the tech companies’ legal immunity for what users post on platforms granted through Section 230. Section 230 has been…

Seniors and disabled veterans have a right to shoot their pistols, too, and the federal government needs to stop passing laws that encroach on that right. That’s the basis of a federal lawsuit filed by more than 20 state attorneys general, a gun rights group and a disabled veteran. The lawsuit was filed in federal…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is grabbing a lot of headlines these days. He’s contested COVID-era lockdowns and sent immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Now he’s trying to ban an AP course in Black history and beefing up a culture-war parenting bill. And it seems to be paying off. In an average of head-to-head polls taken since…

A winter storm continues to slam parts of the U.S., lawmakers say the COVID pandemic is “over,” and Tyre Nichols is being laid to rest. These stories and more highlight the daily morning rundown for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.  Winter storm continues to bring ice, rain Winter storm Mara continues to bring freezing rain and…

The Supreme Court admitted that, nearly nine months later, it has been unable to find out who leaked the early draft of the Dobbs opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The failure to uncover the unprecedented leak comes despite a wide-ranging investigation that included interviews with nearly a hundred employees of the…