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Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

By ANNIE MA
Updated 7:52 PM CDT, April 21, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

Currently, roughly 5.3 million borrowers are in default on their federal student loans.

The Trump administration ’s announcement marks an end to a period of leniency that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. No federal student loans have been referred for collection since March 2020, including those in default. Under President Joe Biden, the Education Department tried multiple times to give broad forgiveness of student loans, only to be stopped by courts.

“American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.

Beginning May 5, the department will begin involuntary collection through the Treasury Department’s offset program, which withholds government payments — including tax refunds, federal salaries and other benefits — from people with past-due debts to the government. After a 30-day notice, the department also will begin garnishing wages for borrowers in default.

The decision to send debt to collections drew criticism from advocates, who said borrowers had experienced whiplash and confusion with the changing student loan policies between the Biden and Trump administrations. ...

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Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general's secure messages

  • News source: Courtney Kube and Gordon Lubold | NBC News
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Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands, put the pilots of those fighters in grave danger. But he was doing exactly...
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GOP lawmaker touts $19M Trump tariff success story in her district: 'New model for American manufacturing'

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: An Indiana lawmaker is celebrating an American bicycle company opening a new manufacturing plant in her district after President Donald Trump launched his aggressive tariff campaign against China.

Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital that Guardian Bikes is starting with a new $19 million investment in Seymour, Indiana to expand their operations there – which she said will create new local jobs.

"The number of job opportunities that are available, the investment right here in southern Indiana, that’s money that’s staying...
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Florida protester screams at Rep. Byron Donalds during tense town hall

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A protester was captured on video yelling at Rep. Byron Donalds and being escorted away by security during a town hall hosted by the Florida Republican.

Tensions escalated inside the auditorium at Estero High School Monday night after a woman began shouting at Donalds – a staunch ally of President Donald Trump who is running to succeed term-limited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – over the war in Gaza.

"The Palestinians have voted for Hamas and they have not done anything to remove Hamas. So you want to have a shouting match with me? Let's have a...
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Schumer sinks, AOC soars in new poll as liberal voters demand harder line on Trump

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's poll numbers in his home state of New York are taking a hit.

The top Senate Democrat and longtime lawmaker faced intense backlash from within his own party in March for supporting a Republican-crafted federal government funding bill that averted a government shutdown and was backed by President Donald Trump but opposed by most congressional Democrats.

That anger by Democrats appears to be reflected in a new poll of New Yorkers conducted by Siena College.

Schumer's favorable rating stands at 39% favorable and...
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Supreme Court to hear case on LGBTQ-themed storybooks and parents’ right to opt out

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a closely watched case that could reshape the role of parental rights and religious freedom in public education.

At issue is whether a Maryland school district violated the First Amendment by requiring elementary school students to engage with LGBTQ+ storybooks that include topics about gender transitions and same-sex relationships, without allowing parents to opt out.

The policy was implemented to disrupt "cisnormativity" and promote inclusivity, according to Supreme Court...
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House Dem jumps into crowded Michigan Senate race

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Supreme Court to weigh clash over opt-outs for books on gender identity, sexuality

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider Maryland parents' challenge to their local school board's policy that denies them the ability to opt their elementary school-age children out of instruction featuring storybooks that address gender identity and sexual orientation.

At issue in the court fight between a group of families and the Montgomery County Board of Education is whether public schools unconstitutionally infringe parents' First Amendment right to exercise their religion freely when they require children to participate...
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RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study autism, the NIH's top official said Monday.

The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy's autism studies to study "comprehensive" patient data with "broad coverage" of the U.S. population for the first time, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said.

"The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often...
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Supreme Court weighs parents' objections to LGBTQ content in elementary schools

  • News source: Lawrence Hurley | NBC News
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday considers the latest dispute that pits religious rights against LGBTQ rights as the justices weigh parents' objections over books made available in a school district's elementary schools that feature stories about gay and transgender characters.

At issue are books included in the English language arts curriculum in Montgomery County, Maryland. The dispute arose in 2022 after the school board in Montgomery County, a large and diverse jurisdiction just outside Washington, decided it wanted more storybooks reflecting LGBTQ...
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JD Vance champions 'roadmap' toward US-India trade deal, says partnership critical to deterring 'dark time'

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Vice President JD Vance touted progress made toward a U.S.-India trade deal on Tuesday, saying a partnership between the Trump administration and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would ensure a 21st century that's "prosperous and peaceful."

Speaking in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur, Vance also warned of "dire" consequences in the Indo-Pacific and a "dark time" for the world should the partnership between the U.S. and India fail.

"Critics have attacked my president, President Trump, for starting a trade war in an effort to bring back...
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Dems fume over 'due process' for Abrego Garcia despite long history of party bucking the legal principle

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Democrats are facing pushback as they continue to call for due process for illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia after years of seemingly ignoring due process for their political rivals.

During the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election and the first Trump term, many Democrats called for President Donald Trump to be put in jail despite only facing allegations of impropriety at the time.

"He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement," Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters said in October 2019. "But for now...
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Federal judge orders ICE to reinstate legal status of 133 foreign students

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A federal judge in Georgia has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the legal statuses of 133 international students by 5 p.m. Tuesday after their F-1 student visas were suddenly terminated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security (DHS).

The students, many of whom are in good academic standing and close to graduation, had their records terminated on Homeland Security’s SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System) and they allege this was done without prior notice, proper explanation or an opportunity to...
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House Dems demand 'proof of life' of Abrego Garcia after being denied meeting in El Salvador

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House Democrats who traveled to El Salvador to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding "daily proof of life" after being denied a meeting with the Salvadoran national who was deported from Maryland.

Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine Dexter of Oregon flew to El Salvador Monday following a visit to the country by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., last week.

"We had a meeting this morning with the embassy here in El Salvador and...
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Trump froze funding for Harvard. Money to these universities may also be on the chopping block

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration is feuding with elite educational institutions, announcing mid-April it would cut off more than $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University, and this week threatening cuts to another $1 billion of its federal grants and funding.

Harvard, in return, is now suing the administration over the funding freeze, which it calls "unlawful and beyond the government’s authority."

The White House responded that Harvard's "gravy train of federal assistance" is coming to an end.

But Harvard isn’t the only school the Trump...
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At least five killed after gunmen open fire on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The region's chief minister said the attack was "much larger than anything we've seen directed at civilians in recent years".
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