Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks during a visit with first lady Jill Biden to Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., Jan. 20, 2022. The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic….

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ABOVE PHOTO: From left, Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Rep. Lucy McBath, Ga., talk about their support for legislation aimed at capping the price of insulin, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The bill aims to keep consumers’ out-of-pocket costs at no…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A sales clerk holds a pistol during an auction in Rochester, Wash., on Oct. 20, 2017. A study published in Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, April 4, 2022, suggests people who live with handgun owners are murdered at more than twice the rate of people who live in homes without such firearms….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ukrainian Holocaust survivors Tatyana Zhuravliova, right, Larisa Dzuenko, left, and Galina Ulyanova pose for a photo during an AP interview in an old people’s home in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) By Kirsten Grieshaber ASSOCIATED PRESS  FRANKFURT, Germany — When the bombs started falling on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, last…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, announces the successful completion of the human genome project Monday April 14, 2003 in Bethesda, Md. Collins said the next step is to apply this new fundamental knowledge and he forecast revolutions in biology, medicine and in society. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By Laura…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) By Lisa Mascaro ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — It’s not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being scrutinized. Senators are also being watched at…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A Xavier University police officer redirects a motorist around campus after a bomb threat put the campus on lockdown in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (David Grunfeld/The Advocate via AP) By Collin Binkley ASSOCIATED PRESS  As the nation’s historically Black colleges remain on edge after receiving dozens of bomb threats in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. In its annual report, released Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center said it identified 733 active hate groups in 2021, down from the 838 counted in 2020 and the 940 counted in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A form for the U.S. Census 2020 is photographed on March 18, 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, March 10, 2022, released two reports which measure how well the once-a-decade head count tallied every U.S. resident and whether certain populations were undercounted or overrepresented in the count. Any undercounts in various populations…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” which would designate lynching as a hate crime under federal law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Emmett Till, pictured at right, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being…

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