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This week, Ismail Haniyeh, one of the top three multi-billionaire Hamas leaders, was killed in Tehran by a bomb. He was visiting to meet with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and participate in the inauguration ceremony of new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. While Iranian authorities initially attributed the death to an Israeli air strike, further analysis revealed that the explosive device had been secretly planted in an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps safe house for visiting friends of the regime two months prior to its remote detonation--a strategy that Pezeshkian characterized as "cowardly." In a statement issued from their luxury hotel...

On Friday, September 7, within hours of each other, the House and Senate passed the biggest infusion of money into the Pell Grant program ever. As part of H.R. 2669, the College Cost Reduction Act, Congress enacted roughly $20 billion in cuts to student loan lender subsidies - and turned them into Pell Grant increases, student loan interest rate cuts, a loan forgiveness program, a teacher grant, other student benefits, and a little bit of deficit reduction. (For details, see "Key Provisions in H.R. 2669," below.) The big winner in the bill is the Pell Grant program. The Pell Grant...