By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly 9 million borrowers missed their first student loan payment after the pandemic-related pause ended this fall, the Department of Education said Friday. That means roughly 40% of the 22 million borrowers who had bills due in October did not make payments by mid-November. Bringing so many borrowers
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA released its schedule on Monday with its usual month-long break for the Olympics. There will be no regular season contests from July 18-Aug. 14 because of the Paris Games. The league’s 28th season will begin on May 14 with eight teams in action,
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had no legal duty to confront the gunman who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School nearly six years ago. The attorney asked a judge
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is recovering from surgery for a broken hip after he fell at a concert in Los Angeles. The basketball Hall of Famer had surgery Sunday “with no complications,” his business partner and spokeswoman, Deborah Morales, told The Associated Press on Monday. “He will
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Apes can recognize old friends they haven’t seen for decades, according to new research, and it’s the longest-lasting social memory ever documented outside humans. Researchers found that chimpanzees and bonobos were able to recognize photos of former groupmates more than 25 years after last seeing them in the flesh,
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE and LISA RATHKE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A storm barreled into the Northeastern U.S. on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, forcing flight cancellations and school closures, and killing at least four people. More than 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain fell in
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision earlier this month largely upholding the gag order issued against him in his federal election subversion case. Trump, in a Monday filing to the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked the three-judge panel that
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s part of a broader Biden administration effort to reinvigorate environmental enforcement. Budget cuts imposed more than a decade ago
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who have transferred multiple times but were denied the chance to compete can now play through the remainder of the academic year. A federal judge in West Virginia agreed with a motion filed last week by the NCAA and a coalition of states
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Kaczynski, Allison Gordon and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have come to the defense of a one time social media influencer who has been convicted of election interference and has a well-known history of pushing deeply racist, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and homophobic content online. In a video
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Nikola Corp. was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for his conviction for exaggerating claims about his company’s production of zero-emission 18-wheel trucks, causing investors to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trevor Milton learned his fate in Manhattan federal court when
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities say a boarding school building partially collapsed in central Romania, leaving one person dead and three injured. They did not say what caused the collapse on Monday in the town of Odorheiu Secuiesc in Harghita county. Photos from the scene shared by emergency teams show a collapsed portion of an
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice on YouTube pleaded guilty Monday to child abuse charges and will go to prison for trying to convince her two youngest children they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent. Ruby Franke stood shackled in gray and
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — A 13-year-old Ohio boy who allegedly crafted “a detailed plan” to carry out a shooting at a synagogue in September reached a plea agreement with a juvenile court Friday, requiring him to undergo counseling and write a book report about a diplomat who organized a Jewish rescue operation during
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has already notched a win for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The two-time AL MVP’s video pitch helped recruit pitcher Tyler Glasnow to reach a $136,562,500, five-year deal with the team. Ohtani agreed to his own record-breaking $700 million, 10-year contract last week. “It
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and DAVID CRARY Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday, a radical shift in policy that aimed at making the church more inclusive while maintaining its strict ban on gay marriage. But while the Vatican statement was heralded by some
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe continues to grow. Health officials in the U.S. and Canada have confirmed at least 10 deaths, dozens of hospitalizations and hundreds of illnesses since the outbreak began in mid-October. More than 36,000 boxes or cases of
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister urged Lebanese leaders on Monday to work on reducing tensions along the border with Israel, warning that the Israel-Hamas war could still spread to other parts of the region. Catherine Colonna’s visit to Lebanon came a day after she visited Israel, where she called
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by state regulators to grant a major permit for the proposed NewRange copper-nickel mine. Monday’s ruling says the state adequately considered the possibility that developers might expand the project when they issued its air emissions permit. It was
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, Michael Williams and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — An aid package scheduled for Ukraine later this month will be the final one unless Congress approves additional help, the White House warned Monday. While aid provided to Ukraine thus far has been essential in resisting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country “still
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