The Biden administration announced Wednesday, May 1, that it will be canceling $6.1 billion in student loan debt for 317,000 people. The debt forgiveness targets people who attended the now-defunct for-profit Art Institutes. In a statement President Joe Biden said the Art Institutes “falsified data, knowingly misled students and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains…

Pro-Palestinian protests lead to dozens of students arrested across some of the country’s most elite college campuses and day two of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Tuesday, April 23, 2024.  Protests lead to arrests across college campuses Some of the country’s most prestigious…

Two days after pro-Palestinian protestors halted traffic and blocked the Golden Gate Bridge calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, San Francisco’s district attorney, Brooke Jenkins, asked affected drivers to come forward. Jenkins said she’s considering filing “false imprisonment” charges against the protestors and making them pay restitution for drivers who were trapped in…

April 15 was the deadline for Americans to file their taxes, including President Joe Biden. The White House released President Biden and first lady Jill Biden’s joint tax return, showing the couple earned nearly $620,000 in 2023, with $400,000 coming from the presidential salary. This is up from about $580,000 they earned the previous year. The Bidens paid…

At least 50 possible jurors were excused after saying they could not be fair regarding former President Trump’s hush money trial. The armorer on the set of “Rust” is sentenced following the fatal shooting of the film’s cinematographer. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Dozens of jurors excused…

Jury selection for former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins Monday, April 15, in New York, marking the start of the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president. The trial centers on allegations that, just days before the 2016 presidential election, Trump falsified business records to conceal reimbursements for $130,000 in hush money payments that…

After Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend, the world awaits the next move by the two countries. For the first time in history, a former U.S. president will stand trial on criminal charges, as Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Monday, April 15, 2024.…

Special counsel Jack Smith urges the Supreme Court to reject former President Trump’s claims of immunity in the election interference case, and Tesla settles a lawsuit over a 2018 crash involving its Autopilot system. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Court filings on immunity claim, bid to delay…

A federal judge in California ruled Wednesday, April 3, that Border Patrol officers near San Diego have illegally detained hundreds of immigrant youths in “open-air detention sites” without adequate food, water or shelter. The judge mandated their rapid transfer to “safe and sanitary” facilities, and the Department of Homeland Security is now facing a lawsuit.…

In a lawsuit filed on Monday, April 1, the Marion County Record — a weekly newspaper in Kansas — and its publisher, Eric Meyer, said that raids by the local police department at the newspaper’s offices and the publisher’s home subjected its staff to unreasonable searches and seizures. The lawsuit also alleges that the raid…