Biden administration floats student loan relief for borrowers facing hardship
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for 8 million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Friday.
Harris has been a voice on race and gender. She doesn’t broadcast it.
Paging through intelligence reports just weeks after she was sworn in as vice president, Kamala Harris was struck by the way two female foreign leaders were described. The reports used adjectives that, in her view, were rarely used to describe male leaders.
Chinese hackers are said to have targeted phones used by Trump and Vance
Chinese hackers targeted data from phones used by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging intelligence-collection effort, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Election officials face torrent of threats as Nov. 5 looms
WASHINGTON — With less than two weeks until Election Day, law enforcement officials are confronting a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists in a presidential contest hurtling toward a bitterly contentious coda and a potentially unsettled aftermath.
History, money and glamour define a New York vs. Los Angeles World Series
If you asked a Hollywood director or a New York writer to come up with a riveting World Series script for 2024, they would probably conjure the one we have.
Watch parties, clinics and Guinness: How the NFL builds a fan base in Ireland
DUBLIN — Shane De Lappe and Stephen Murphy arrived at Dublin’s Croke Park last month about an hour before the stadium gates opened. They weren’t going to see Gaelic football or hurling. Instead, the 30-something dads were there for a sold-out watch party hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Changing the DNA of living things to fight climate change
HAZELWOOD, Mo. — With the push of a red button, a milky-colored liquid sprayed onto a load of corn seed at a warehouse in central Missouri. It was a hint of a revolution underway in U.S. agriculture, driven by a desire to combat climate change while still feeding and fueling the world.
Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No taxes at all
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.
Biden to apologize for Indian boarding schools where hundreds of children died
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will formally apologize Friday for the role of the federal government in running boarding schools where thousands of Native American children faced abuse, neglect and the erasure of their tribal identities.
District attorney will ask court to resentence Menendez brothers
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney said Thursday that he would request the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents in 1989, a step that could lead to their release from prison.
Teens to Hollywood: Enough sex, already
LOS ANGELES — Movies and television shows about rich people are the last thing we want to watch. And skip the sex: We prefer content that focuses on platonic relationships. (There’s enough porn online as it is.) We do like fantasy as a genre, increasingly so. But please, pretty please, fix how you incorporate social media into storylines. It’s cringe.
Harris calls Trump’s reported remarks on Hitler and Nazis ‘deeply troubling’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s reported comments praising Nazi generals offered “a window into who Donald Trump really is,” calling it “deeply troubling” that her Republican rival had apparently invoked Adolf Hitler in conversations with one of his former chiefs of staff, John Kelly.
As election looms, disinformation has ‘never been worse’
The Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee has been falsely accused of sexually molesting students. The claims have been spread by a former deputy sheriff from Florida, now openly working in Moscow for Russia’s propaganda apparatus, on dozens of social media platforms and fake news outlets.
Man charged in attempted Trump assassination seeks judge’s recusal
Defense lawyers for the Hawaii man charged with trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida renewed their efforts Wednesday to get the Trump-appointed judge who is handling the case to step down, citing a recent news article saying she is under consideration for a top legal position if Trump wins the election.
What another year of hoping for the Mets gave to me
If you’re a sports fan, maybe you can relate: All my life, I’ve had a team. All my life, I’ve followed the New York Mets. I read Mets blogs, follow Mets social media. I obsessively follow Mets games. My team gives my life drama without consequences — a swelling sense of well-being when they are good, the glorious highs of a comeback win, the occasional moments of crushing despair and, because they are the Mets, long decades of languishing mediocrity.
Abortions have increased, even for women in states with near-total bans
In nearly every state that has banned abortion, the number of women receiving abortions increased between 2020 and the end of 2023, according to the most comprehensive account of all abortions by state since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
With Election Day 2 weeks away, 17 million voters have already cast a ballot
With two weeks until Election Day, more than 17 million people have already cast their ballots, the clearest sign yet that voting habits were forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic and that early voting has become a permanent feature of the American democratic process.
Freshman enrollment appears to decline for the first time since 2020
Freshman enrollment dropped more than 5% from last year at American colleges and universities, the largest decline since 2020 when COVID-19 and distance learning upended higher education, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit education group.
Harris sets record for biggest fundraising quarter ever
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign set a record for the biggest fundraising quarter ever this fall, raising $1 billion in the three-month period that ended Sept. 30.
U.S. envoy calls spiraling conflict in Lebanon ‘out of control’
BEIRUT — A top U.S. official said Monday that the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah had “escalated out of control,” and called for the revival of a United Nations resolution that, if enforced fully, could pull the region back from the brink amid Israel’s widening war in Lebanon.
