A leaked strategy from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is causing concern as it calls for border agents to, among other things, have apprehended illegal aliens “apply for any form of relief or protection” to avoid being deported.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration was extending a pause on student loan repayments through Aug. 31 of this year, giving borrowers additional financial support after two difficult economic years during the pandemic.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lost his razor-thin parliamentary majority on Wednesday after a lawmaker from his nationalist party quit, leaving his government with a more precarious grip on power but in no immediate danger of collapse.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are at the lowest level on record according to the CDC. While this has given many hope that the country may finally be putting the pandemic in the rearview mirror, several officials have tried to damper the positive news.

Chinese authorities on Tuesday extended a lockdown in Shanghai to cover all of the financial center’s 26 million people, despite growing anger over quarantine rules in the city, where latest results show only 268 symptomatic daily COVID-19 cases.

General Motors and Honda Motor Co said on Tuesday they will develop a series of lower-priced electric vehicles based on a new joint platform, producing potentially millions of cars from 2027 in a bid to beat Tesla in sales.