Deane Stryker, a first-year student at the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, was stabbed while she was in a public library.
Carol Semple
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Biden rolls out $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan ‘to win the future’
Funding would come from a hike on corporate taxes that would aim to raise the needed money over 15 years and later reduce the deficit.
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Supreme Court sympathetic to college athletes in NCAA compensation dispute
Still, if the athletes were to win their court case, there would be pressure on schools to offer additional benefits, and that could create bidding wars for the best players.
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New lawsuit challenges Georgia’s Republican-backed election law
A group of organizations including the Georgia NAACP have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the new law that, among other things, allows the Republican-controlled State Election Board to remove and replace county election officials.
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Suspected Russian hackers got access to emails of top Trump security officials
Their accounts were accessed as part of what’s known as the SolarWinds intrusion, and it throws into question how the U.S. government can protect individuals, companies and institutions across the country if it can’t protect itself.
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National ban on renter evictions during COVID-19 pandemic is extended
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved to extend the pandemic-related protection, which had been scheduled to expire on Wednesday, through the end of June.
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Biden moves to increase offshore wind energy along East Coast
The Biden administration hopes such projects generate enough power to provide electricity for more than 10 million homes by 2030.
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Plan made to refloat ship blocking Suez Canal using tide
The Ever Given, owned by a Japanese firm, got wedged Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about 3.7 miles north of the southern entrance.
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Biden invites Russia, China to administration’s first global climate talks
The president is seeking to revive a U.S.-convened forum of the world’s major economies on climate that George W. Bush and Barack Obama both used and Donald Trump let languish.
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Attorney for arrested Georgia lawmaker calls charges ‘overreach’
Rep. Park Cannon, an Atlanta Democrat, said she wanted to witness Gov. Brian Kemp sign a law that places new restrictions on voting by mail and gives lawmakers more power to oversee elections.