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The Biden administration increases efforts to fight student loan forgiveness scams

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by Meg Anderson

The Biden administration is increasing its efforts to fight scams that take advantage of borrowers applying for its expansive student loan forgiveness plan.

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Changes to abortion laws mean OB-GYNs have less opportunities to learn procedure

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by Katia Riddle

The recent change to abortion laws means providers will have far fewer opportunities to learn the procedure. It's created a crisis for the training of OB-GYNs.

Alva Sulaty points to the damage in her home in North Port, Fla., on Wednesday, after Hurricane Ian flooded her neighborhood.

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North Port residents start sorting through the wreckage of Hurricane Ian

4:12pm October 06, 2022

The town of North Port, Fla., was hit hard by Hurricane Ian, and then days of river flooding. As the waters start to recede, residents are starting to dry out and take stock of the damage.

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At night at Babcock Ranch, electricity generation switches from solar power to natural gas.

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One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch

3:07pm October 06, 2022

by Scott Neuman

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

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DeSoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso turns his airboat around before heading out to help hurricane survivors stranded on newly-created islands brought on by the flooding Peace River.

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When flooding from Ian trapped one Florida town, an airboat navy came to the rescue

3:05pm October 06, 2022

by Quil Lawrence

After Hurricane Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands.

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Video shot by Jamee Kimble shows the aftermath of a police stop in which officers hit the car Kimble and her children were driving in.

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Police drove into a car head-on in a traffic stop. The driver wasn't their suspect

2:08pm October 06, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The Fairfax County Police Department says the car Jamee Kimble was driving was connected to an incident in neighboring Arlington County, and that a police cruiser hit it at a low speed.

A man stands in front of his destroyed house in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Fla., on Oct. 3.

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Florida's property insurance market was already under stress. Ian could make it worse

1:16pm October 06, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Rampant litigation, costlier storms and rising reinsurance costs have all combined to make chaos in Florida's home insurance market. Now, some worry Ian could send even more insurers out of the state.

President Biden holds a semiconductor chip in this 2021 file photo. The White House is working out how to spend $52 billion that Congress has provided to spur U.S. chip manufacturing plants.

Biden has $52 billion for semiconductors. Today, work begins to spend that windfall

1:10pm October 06, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden is touting new semiconductor investments in New York today. Back at the White House, a new team is meeting with cabinet members to work out how to spend $52 billion from Congress.

People take pictures and videos of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot during an event in Lisbon in 2019.

Some leading robot makers are pledging not to weaponize them

12:49pm October 06, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The companies warned that "untrustworthy people" could use their robots to harm others or infringe on civil liberties, and they pledged to make sure their customers didn't weaponize the products.

A sign marks the main entrance to the campus of Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.

PERSPECTIVE: At conservative schools, anti-critical race theory still looms large

11:59am October 06, 2022

by Sierra Lyons

On conservative campuses, anti-critical race theory hovers.