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More than 3.5 million student loan borrowers who received funding under a defunct private program will have more time to consolidate their loans if they want to qualify for a one-time initiative that could wipe out their debt, the Education Department said Wednesday.

President Biden and former president Donald Trump agreed Wednesday to a June 27 debate on CNN and a Sept. 10 debate broadcast by ABC News, hours after Biden announced he would bypass the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

Deaths from drug overdoses fell last year in the United States as fewer people lost their lives to fentanyl and other opioids, marking the first time the death toll had dropped in five years, according to newly released estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Speaker Mike Johnson joined a cavalcade of top Republicans defending former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amid his New York criminal trial focused on hush money payments over an alleged affair in the leadup to the 2016 election.

WASHINGTON — Victims of radiation exposure are aiming to ramp up the pressure on the House to take up a Senate-passed bill that would extend and expand the compensation fund for those harmed by radiation from America’s development of nuclear weapons. The bill sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has fairly broad support in both parties, but it has been sitting on the clerk’s desk in the House ...

Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona.

 More than six years after his conviction for doing Donald Trump’s dirty work — cementing a bitter rivalry with the man he once said he’d “take a bullet” for — Michael Cohen testified on Monday at the former president’s hush money trial. Prosecutors called Trump’s former personal lawyer to the stand as the marathon Manhattan Supreme Court trial passes the monthlong mark. 

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from California prison officials who sought immunity from lawsuits for having transferred inmates with COVID-19 to San Quentin in May 2020, setting off an outbreak that killed 26 prisoners and one guard. The justices denied the appeals with no comment or dissent.

More than two decades have passed since a crying newborn baby boy was found abandoned in a cardboard box at an apartment complex in South Bend, Ind.

Sen. Bob Menendez is set to stand trial in Manhattan federal court starting Monday in a sprawling corruption case brought by prosecutors who say the New Jersey Democrat accepted bribes, acted as a foreign agent and obstructed justice.

Late on April 30, Sean Tabibian called 911 to say police were needed urgently at the University of California at Los Angeles. Masked agitators were attacking pro-Palestinian protesters on a campus quad, video footage shows, and a team of hired security guards had retreated.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a 40-year sentence for the man convicted of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her husband with a hammer after he broke into the couple's San Francisco home in 2022.

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first patient to receive a genetically edited kidney from a pig, has died nearly two months after the milestone surgery, according to his family and a statement from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he had the transplant.

Bars of gold, stacks of cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and foreign intelligence officials could all make cameo appearances as Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) goes on trial Monday on federal charges that he used his position and influence to benefit a trio of businessmen who were plying him with luxury gifts.

The night sky dazzled people across the United States and Europe on Friday evening as an extreme geomagnetic storm brought aurora displays not usually seen at lower latitudes - beautiful streaks of green, purple and pink lights. If you missed it, though, you can find awe in many of Earth’s other phenomena.

Dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony Saturday as Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered the commencement address, demonstrating support for Palestinians and protesting some of the Republican’s crusade against racial equity in education.