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CNN  —  The application for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is expected to go live as soon as this week. But the nation is divided over the program, flooding social media platforms with praise or criticism. Additionally, ongoing legal challenges and lawsuits aiming to block the plan are creating a few hurdles for the administration. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law…

CNN  —  Protesters from the environmental group Greenpeace were ejected from the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday after disrupting British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first speech as leader. Two female activists held up a flag that read “Who voted for this?” before they were escorted out of the conference center in Birmingham by security guards as the crowd booed. “Let’s get them removed,” said Truss, to applause. Truss quipped following their removal that the “anti-growth coalition” had arrived at the hall “a bit too early.” Greenpeace confirmed that its activists were responsible for the protest. In a tweet, the group…

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Darren Mulqueen, 35, tragically passed away in his hospital bed last month with cancer, after doctors misdiagnosed him as his family have spoken out about how they supported him through thick and thin An ‘amazing and caring’ dad-of-two has tragically died after his cancer symptoms were mistaken as back pain. Darren Mulqueen, 35, from Ealing, west London. was given just two months to live after he was misdiagnosed. Sadly however, he passed away in his hospital bed in September, surrounded by family, after suffering with terminal cancer of the pancreas and liver. The former British Army serviceman’s girlfriend, Vicky, his…

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A detainee at a U.S. Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, was fatally shot by one or more federal agents Tuesday, authorities said.The FBI said in a statement that the person died after the incident at the Ysleta U.S. Border Patrol Station.A person died after being been transported to a local hospital after a shooting at an El Paso Border Patrol station Tuesday.KTSMU.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that multiple agents assigned to the station were “involved” in a shooting reported at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. The detainee was transported to a hospital with severe injuries, El…

CNN  —  The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices – Latina, White and Black women – sought during voting-rights arguments Tuesday to wrench the narrative of a colorblind America from the conservatives who currently dominate the bench. Led by Chief Justice John Roberts, justices on the right have rejected policies that consider race, including in redistricting intended to boost the chances of racial minorities to elect their candidates of choice. “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” Roberts wrote in a 2006 case. Liberals, facing tough odds in Tuesday’s controversy from Alabama, tried to refocus the court…

OPEC+’s plans to cut oil production is a “mistake,” according to U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, who said there needs to be a re-evaluation of the alliance between the group’s de-facto leader and the United States.The influential alliance of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers is reportedly considering its largest output cut since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.”I think it is a mistake on their part. And I think it’s time for a wholesale re-revaluation of the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia,” Murphy told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble Tuesday.Murphy said that the United States needed the Saudis to take…