By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments will end soon. Student loan interest will start accruing on Septemb…
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In affirmative action and student loan cases, some see backlash to racial progress in education
By ANNIE MA and AARON MORRISON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to studen…
GOP presidential candidates struggle with response to Trump’s unprecedented legal troubles
By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former Pres…
Democrats and Republicans share core values but still distrust each other
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think — including their strong distrust of each other. A survey publis…
The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
By RICHARD LARDNER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of the theft was brazen, even simple. Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and fe…
Southern Baptists refuse to take back megachurch because it has women pastors
By PETER SMITH and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California …
30,000 Haitian kids live in private orphanages. Officials want to shutter them and reunite families.
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS-DU-SUD, Haiti (AP) — Mylouise Veillard was 10 when her mother dropped her off at an orphanage in southern Haiti and promised her a better life. For three ye…
What to know about Trump’s appearance in federal court in Miami to face felony charges
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Donald Trump made a first appearance in federal court in Miami on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a…
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documents
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in…
Often sidelined at Pride, transgender and nonbinary people move front and center
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride c…