Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they’ve never said. ...
Read More »Watchdog says Education Dept. stonewalls student-loan suit
The nation’s consumer-watchdog agency is accusing the Education Department of impeding a lawsuit that could potentially bring financial relief to millions of student-loan borrowers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing Navient Solutions, alleging one of the nation’s largest student-loan ...
Read More »Federal Reserve projects further gradual hikes in key rate
The Federal Reserve said Friday it expects low unemployment and rising inflation will keep it on track to raise interest rates at a gradual pace in the next two years. By late 2019, the Fed says its key policy rate ...
Read More »Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care ...
Read More »Author of Emmett Till book gave FBI interview recordings
Weeks after he published a book about the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a North Carolina author received a call from FBI agents asking about his interview with a key witness who acknowledged lying about her interactions with the black ...
Read More »MeToo’s Tarana Burke: Laying groundwork for the long haul
Not long ago, Tarana Burke took the podium in a hotel ballroom full of admirers — a scenario that’s become somewhat familiar this past year — and told a favorite childhood tale about the time she was forced to run ...
Read More »2 Supreme Court nominations made, Trump may have none to go
What would it take for President Donald Trump to get yet another Supreme Court pick? Probably the death of a justice. Trump has speculated that he could appoint a majority of the nine-member court. It has been three decades, however, ...
Read More »Government probing ‘new information’ in Emmett Till slaying
The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told ...
Read More »Judge says Missouri governor can appoint a Lt. Gov.
A Missouri judge upheld a governor’s right to appoint a lieutenant governor Wednesday, bringing some clarity to a decades-old legal argument in the state. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem’s ruling said Gov. Mike Parson had the authority to appoint ...
Read More »Feds: Kentucky coal-mine supervisors cheated on dust samples
Eight former supervisors and safety officers at a Kentucky coal company were indicted Wednesday on federal charges that they rigged dust monitoring in underground mines, forcing miners to work in the kind of dirty conditions that can lead to black ...
Read More »Medical experts worry about testing DNA to reunite families
The Trump administration’s use of DNA testing to match migrant children separated from their parents is justifiable as a last resort, medical experts say, although it raises a host of ethical problems. That includes the risk of damaging the family ...
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