The Biden administration announced an additional $9 billion in student debt relief, part of fixes to income-driven repayment plans and public service loan forgiveness.
ALEXANDRA E. PETRI
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Stanford president says he’ll resign amid scrutiny over his research
After a review of allegations made about his scientific articles found issues, Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said he will resign.
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California leads U.S. in dog attacks on mail carriers as number of bites rises
Last year, there were 675 dog bites on mail carriers in California, 67% more than the No. 2 state, Texas, according to U.S. Postal Service data.
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Loneliness is an epidemic, and the health risks are ‘profound,’ U.S. surgeon general warns
Isolation and loneliness are an epidemic as damaging to Americans’ individual and public health as smoking and obesity, the surgeon general said in an advisory.
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COVID-19 emptied California’s downtowns: S.F. still reeling but San Diego rebounds
California’s downtowns have had varying levels of success in rebounding from pandemic shutdowns — while San Diego has almost fully recovered, San Francisco is concerned about a potential “doom loop.”
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Feinstein, facing calls to resign, vows to return to Senate but asks to step away from committee
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s extended absence with shingles has complicated the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s judicial and administrative nominees given the Democrats’ slim majority in the chamber.
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Police hunt for motive in Michigan State University shooting that killed 3, wounded 5
Police are searching for a motive in the shooting deaths Monday of three students at Michigan State University by a gunman who later killed himself.
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‘Simply deplorable’: State investigates farmworkers’ working conditions at Half Moon Bay shooting sites
California has opened investigations into labor and workplace practices at the two sites of the fatal shootings in Half Moon Bay that left seven people dead.
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Half Moon Bay suspect ‘snapped’ before shooting co-workers, sheriff says
Chunli Zhao, 66, is being held in the killings of seven people, some of whom once worked alongside him in Half Moon Bay, a coastal community south of San Francisco.
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Half Moon Bay suspect lived at mushroom farm where shootings occurred
For at least three years, the suspected gunman — identified by authorities as Chunli Zhao, 66 — worked and resided in trailers at Mountain Mushroom Farm along State Route 92 in Half Moon Bay, the site of the first attack, law enforcement officials said. According to Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquin Jimenez, the suspect lived with farmers who were attacked in Monday’s deadly rampage at two locations.