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  • People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Judge temporarily blocks Elon Musk plan offering incentives for federal workers to quit

    By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others
  • People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the Treasury Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Federal workers ask whether Musk buyout deal is real or a trick as deadline approaches

    By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others
  • Teachers wear masks while protesting the Israel military action in GazaPolitics

    Trump is launching antisemitism investigations at 5 major universities, saying Biden’s approach to pro-Palestinian protests was ‘toothless’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Personal Finance

    Biden rolls out final round of student debt forgiveness with loan cancelation for 55,000 workers

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • President-elect Donald Trump speaks at meeting of the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Politics

    Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education by cutting funding for schools that defy him

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt, April 8, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Politics

    Biden’s student loan cancellation plan put on hold yet again after day of legal whiplash

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 30, 2024. The Biden administration is cancelling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Politics

    Biden administration is cancelling $7.7bn more in federal student loans for 160,000 borrowers

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Joe BidenSuccess

    Biden’s Education Dept. starts clock on regulation that would cancel student debt for over 25 million Americans

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Joe BidenSuccess

    Biden White House cancels debt for another 206,000 borrowers in SAVE plan, bringing total to $4.8 billion

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden delivers remarks on student loan debt at Madison College, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Personal Finance

    Biden says his new plan to ease student loan debt would offer ‘life-changing’ relief to more than 30 million borrowers

    By Darlene Superville, Collin Binkley, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden to take fresh stab at canceling billions in student debt, sources say

    By Seung Min Kim, Collin Binkley, and others
  • Miguel CardonaPolitics

    Oops. Education Dept. discovers calculation error in over 200,000 students’ financial aid applications

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Wheaton College students stop to chat on the Norton, Mass. campus, Feb. 13, 2024 as snow falls. More than 75 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S. government’s newest repayment plan since it launched in August. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, File)Personal Finance

    What to know about SAVE, the Biden administration’s newest income-driven plan to repay student loans

    By Adriana Morga, Collin Binkley, and others
  • FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on student loan debt forgiveness, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers starting in February as part of a new repayment plan. Cancellation was originally set to begin in July under the new SAVE repayment plan, but it’s being unrolled ahead of schedule to provide faster relief to borrowers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Politics

    Biden accelerates new student loan cancelation plan that will benefit some Americans starting in February

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Biden said it is “self-evident” that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist but declined to endorse a Colorado Supreme Court decision that would bar the Republican presidential frontrunner from appearing on the ballot in that state. Photographer: Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPersonal Finance

    The Biden administration is docking $2 million from 3 student loan servicers for botching the return to repayment

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press