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A man was shot and sustained life-threatening injuries on Thursday in Newton, Massachusetts, after he tackled a pro-Israel demonstrator.

During a news conference on Thursday evening, Marian Ryan, the Middlesex district attorney, said that the incident took place at about 6.40pm on Thursday evening.

A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators were on one side of the street, Ryan said, and a man, who has not been publicly identified, was walking on the other side of the street and started exchanging words with the group.

A Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the US in 2020, is being released from prison after a judge reduced his sentence to four years of probation on Friday.

Judge Mark Warner ruled that “unusual and extenuating circumstances” in the case justified reducing the five-year prison sentence for Peter Cichuniec, the Denver Post reported.

Warner is the same judge who sentenced Cichuniec to prison in March.

McClain was walking down the street in a Denver suburb in 2019 when police responding to a suspicious person report forcibly restrained him and put him in a neck hold. His final words – “I can’t breathe” – foreshadowed those of George Floyd a year later in Minneapolis.

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Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a shining star in the ballet world, has died too soon at the age of 29.

DePrince's family confirmed the news of her passing on social media, writing in a Friday post they were making the announcement with "profound sadness." DePrince's death was "sudden," but other details surrounding the circumstances of her death were not immediately available, according to the post.

"The family thanks you for their privacy as they navigate this very difficult time. Services will be private," according to the post.

Decades before DePrince became a world-renowned ballerina, she was living at an orphanage in Sierra Leone, hoping to be adopted, according to reporting by Glamour. And she was.

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Navient, once one of the country’s largest student loan servicers, has reached a $120 million settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — resulting in the company being permanently banned from servicing federal student loans.

In a settlement announced Thursday, the CFPB says that Navient would have to pay a $20 million penalty and provide $100 million in relief to those impacted borrowers. The bureau says it will mail checks to eligible borrowers, who do not need to take any action at this time.

The CFPB did not detail how much eligible borrowers would receive in terms of payments.

"For years, Navient’s top executives profited handsomely by exploiting students and taxpayers,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a statement.

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