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The Biden administration on Friday launched a beta version of its student loan forgiveness application process, allowing borrowers to sign up online before the official website is unveiled later this month. The application, which is available here, is the first step in Biden’s program to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans. “This testing […]
California has become the first state to ban plastic produce bags. People reports that the single-use bags will be slowly eliminated during the next two years, with them completely gone by Jan. 1, 2025, and to be replaced by recycled paper bags or compostable bags. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, SB 1046 into law, […]
21 Savage has responded to Wack 100 after he posted a series of tweets on Thursday accusing the rapper once again of being an informant. Wack shared a message on Instagram, demanding an answer from 21. “21 Savage has not been to court since 2019,” it read in all caps. “We just concluded he’s enrolled in […]
Toronto residents living near the intersection of King Street West and Strachan Avenue are complaining about a lingering foul stench. “It smells like sewage,” said Ann Riness, who lives nearby, to a CBC Toronto reporter. “It’s definitely tough to live here. You have to keep your windows closed on a bad day.” The longtime resident […]
Ahead of the beginning of early voting in Georgia, Stacey Abrams has partnered with Brandon Blackwood and Honor Roll for a pair of merch collabs. In a statement, Abrams—who’s running for governor in the state—detailed her excited to partner with two Black-owned businesses for pieces she says “represent the values and authenticity” of her campaign. […]
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty in connection with staging a fire and falsely blaming it on, among other conservative boogeymen, “Antifa.” The fire in question, per a regional report from KSTP, was first reported to authorities in September 2020. At the time, 30-year-old Denis Vladmirovich Molla claimed to local law enforcement officials that a group […]
80% of Canadian remote workers would prefer to look for a new job rather than be forced to return to their offices full time, according to a survey conducted by financial website HardBacon. The survey asked Canadians who work from home or remotely how often they do so and how they would react if their […]
A Texas cop who was previously reported to have been fired after shooting a teen in a McDonald’s parking lot has now been charged. Per a report from the Associated Press, 25-year-old James Brennand was still in custody as of Wednesday morning after turning himself in the prior evening. Brennand, who was fired last week, […]
Eric André has filed a lawsuit against Clayton County over police’s “program of racial profiling and coercive stops” at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As previously reported, André went public last year with what he described as a racial profiling incident at the Georgia airport, ultimately hitting Jimmy Kimmel Live to detail the harassment. Per André, a […]
Former NHL player and current chair of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, Akim Aliu, responded to Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons after Simmons compared Aliu’s career with that of another black NHL player, Wayne Simmonds. “No one wants to say this because of the politically correct police and all, but those who coached Akim Aliu must cringe […]
