Borrowers urged to apply for Navient's private student loan forgiveness The Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) launched a campaign to raise awareness of Navient's discharge program for certain borrowers seeking relief because their school lied to them. 06/5/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
Student Loan Forgiveness Deadline Extended. You Have Less Than a Month to Maximize Your Debt Relief If you qualify, your student loans could be automatically cancelled or you could see a large chunk of interest wiped out. 06/4/2024 - 11:57 am | View Link
Biden extends time frame to get credit toward student loan forgiveness Interest rates are up and student loan forgiveness isn't really finalized yet, making for turbulent loan market as we enter into presidential policies. 05/29/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link
Student Loan Forgiveness Update: Biden Administration Cancels Debt for Another 160,000 Borrowers On Wednesday, the White House approved $7.7 billion in debt cancellation for more than 160,000 borrowers. This debt relief was tied to forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, ... 05/23/2024 - 3:28 pm | View Link
How to Tell If You're Eligible For Credit Card Debt Forgiveness (& 4 Alternatives) To consolidate your debt, you’ll apply for another loan ... card company to see if they will offer a hardship plan. If they’re unwilling to help or your financial troubles require a more long-term ... 03/22/2024 - 1:07 am | View Link
A World War II Navy veteran was being mourned Thursday following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a trip friends said he’d talked excitedly about making.
Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York fell ill during a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital, his longtime priest and friend, the Rev.
Washington — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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There was something special about this horse: It had a genetic mutation that changed the shape of its back, likely making it easier to ride.
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study.
As Russia’s war grinds on, the Biden Administration is now taking on bigger risks to support Ukraine. The latest example is a White House decision to allow Ukrainian forces to use U. S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia. We may also soon see NATO personnel on the ground in Ukraine to train fighters.
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Six months ago, Western leaders weren’t ready to discuss either of these changes—at least not publicly.
The confluence of multiplying political, economic, and social crises has made the military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) feel like a perfect description of the third decade of the third millennium. The acronym was used at the Army War College in the late 1980s to describe a world that was more unpredictable than the bipolar one of the Cold War-era, but it has come to feel increasingly resonant today, as one emergency cascades into another, amplifying the perils of an ever more interconnected globe.
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On top of the looming disaster of climate change, there are escalating threats to democracy at home and abroad, high-stakes wars in Ukraine and Gaza, surging populist anger at governments and institutions, and a tidal wave of fake news and disinformation that will rise to tsunami levels with the expanding use of AI.
All eyes are on Rafah. And Papua. And Sudan. And the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Weeks after an AI-generated image of the Gazan city became a widely shared symbol of protest against Israel’s military campaign that has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and over a million displaced, versions of the viral slogan have been recast to raise awareness of other causes around the world.
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Perhaps most prominently, images and online posts promoting “All Eyes on Papua” have been shared and seen by millions on social media.
TOKYO — Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new initiative is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone.
While a site offering counsel and general information for potential lovebirds is online, a dating app is also in development.