Supreme Court keeps Biden administration’s multibillion-dollar payment relief plan on hold as lawsuits proceed – August 28, 2024

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• The Supreme Court today kept on hold the Biden administration’s latest multibillion-dollar plan to lower payments for millions of borrowers while lawsuits proceed in lower courts.
• Typhoon Shenshen dumped rain on Japan, leaving one dead and several injured before landfall; highest-level warnings issued for the country’s south.
• Vice-presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance campaigned Wednesday, with Walz speaking to firefighters in Boston and Vance addressing truckers in Erie, Pennsylvania
• The FBI shared new details of its investigation into the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in July, stating that a motive for the shooting remains unclear.
• Santa Clara County supervisors voted to advance a new plan to buy Regional Medical Center Hospital, restoring health access to vulnerable south bay residents.
• The state agency responsible for health care affordability and accessibility in California met outside Sacramento for the first time today in Monterey County to discuss high prices at the area’s three major hospitals that patients cannot afford.

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