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The Biden administration is changing who qualifies for student loan cancellation

8:01am October 01, 2022

Lawsuits have taken aim at the Biden administration's efforts to cancel some federal student loan debt. In response, the administration has been subtly shifting its plan, and changing who qualifies.

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Tourists by the boulevard at a Black Sea resort in Odesa, Ukraine, on Sept. 3. Tourists are not allowed to enter the public beach due to the presence of land mines and other explosives.

World News

With Ukraine at war, officials hope to bring tourism back to areas away from fighting

7:25am October 01, 2022

by Ashley Westerman

The war displaced millions of Ukrainians. But officials are trying to entice citizens to travel around the country for pleasure again.

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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, shown here addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017, has been placed at the center of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.

Politics & Government

Fox's Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case

7:08pm September 30, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers want to question the Fox News star again over texts they got just hours before she sat for a sworn deposition. Dominion sued Fox over false claims of election fraud.

To fully embrace electric vehicles, the auto industry must adjust its workforce

7:57am September 30, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

The auto industry is undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation as it goes all in on electric vehicles. Certain white-collar workers may be among the first to feel the impact.

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Economists consider the tradeoffs of fighting inflation and killing economic growth

5:13am September 30, 2022

The Federal Reserve has been extremely aggressive in its attempt to bring inflation down by quickly raising interest rates. Some economists continue to wonder whether it's too much too fast.

eBay former Senior Director of Safety and Security James Baugh arrives for his sentencing in a cyber stalking case at Moakley Federal Court on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Boston.

National

Live spiders and cockroaches: Ex-eBay executives get prison time in harassment plot

1:32am September 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

Former eBay Inc. executives were sentenced Thursday to prison for a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included sending live spiders, cockroaches, a funeral wreath.

Britain's prime minister speaks up after being silent around sudden economy issues

4:34pm September 29, 2022

by Willem Marx

The British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister finally broke their silence after a disastrous week for the economy that many are blaming on their policies.

After Frankie Cook's car accident on a wet road outside Rome, Ga., her father, Russell (right), got a lawyer's letter saying they owed a hospital emergency room more than $17,000 for scans and an exam to see if she had a concussion.

They were turned away from urgent care. The reason? Their car insurance

1:52pm September 29, 2022

by Sam Whitehead

Russell Cook expected a quick, inexpensive visit to an urgent care center for his daughter after a car wreck. She wasn't badly hurt, but they were sent to an emergency room — for a much larger bill.

A commercial building sits empty Sept. 19 in Citrus Heights, Calif., northeast of Sacramento. Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on commercial land.

National

Vacant stores will become homes more easily under new California laws

1:35pm September 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

Local government officials say the laws undermine their authority and cut their tax base, but it's a long-sought win for affordable housing advocates, who say such sites are ready-made for apartments.

When it comes to fighting inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said, "We will keep at it until we are confident the job is done."

Economy

Financial markets are a mess around the world. Fingers are pointing at the Fed

11:33am September 29, 2022

by David Gura

Customarily, the Fed and other central banks do as much as they can to keep markets calm. This time they're the reason behind the volatility.

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