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How Much Student Loan Debt Does the Average College Graduate Have? 10/20/2024 08:00pm • Average student loan debt has been on the rise as families try to keep up with soaring college costs. Though 2023 college graduates who borrowed to pay for school took out, on average, $43 less in loans compared with the prior year, the average total student debt continues to hover above $29,000, ac Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare' 10/20/2024 12:32pm • LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — Standing before hundreds of people in a suburban Detroit chapel, at an event organized by Donald Trump's campaign, Marlin J. Reed declared that God had called on them to vote for the former president. “You are being called upon to stand up and face down this darkness and fa Will US convenience stores find the secret to selling better food? 10/20/2024 09:06am • NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who think of petrified hot dogs, frozen burritos and salty snacks when they imagine getting food at a gas station or truck stop may be pleasantly surprised during their next road trip: U.S. convenience stores are offering them more and better — though not necessarily he Republicans and Democrats are both preparing for long legal battles over the 2024 election results 10/20/2024 07:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump, who still refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, says he wants a presidential victory Nov. 5 to be so overwhelming that the results are “too big to rig.” “We want a landslide," he recently told supporters in Georgia. Part of a memo authorizing probe of election interference remains secret. A judge wants to know why 10/18/2024 02:34pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge is pressing the U.S. government to explain why a portion of the memo authorizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of foreign election interference and former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign remains classified seven years after it was Right-wing influencers hyped anti-Ukraine videos made by a TV producer also funded by Russian media 10/18/2024 11:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin could not have asked for better publicity at a better time when Ben Swann, a self-described independent journalist who promotes conspiracy theories, released a 12-part video series he promised would reveal dark truths about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Swa Nevada Senate opponents paint each other as extremists in debate lacking fireworks 10/18/2024 01:26am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists, but fireworks were few during their only face-to-face debate in a presidential battleground state where the Nov. 5 election could determine control of both the White House Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US 10/17/2024 06:08pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. That's the most at this point in the year since 2 McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says 10/17/2024 01:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a “despicable human being" and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this m European Central Bank, seeing no signs of recession, cuts interest rates again 10/17/2024 11:35am • LONDON (AP) — The European Central Bank, which sets interest rates for the 20 countries that use the euro currency, does not expect the bloc to slide into recession as it cut borrowing costs once again Thursday in the wake of recent data showing inflation across the bloc falling to its lowest leve Man charged with rapes in Utah says he changed his names due to threats 10/16/2024 06:39pm • A man charged with two rapes in Utah who lived under a series of names in the United Kingdom and allegedly faked his own death said Wednesday that he changed his name because of threats made against his life. During a court hearing in Provo, Nicholas Rossi testified that, after moving to Europe in 2 Editorial Roundup: United States 10/16/2024 04:32pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on AI's impact on chemistry, biomedicine One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered work on the neural networks that undergird artificial intelligence, has warned UK inflation falls to lowest level in over 3 years, cementing expectations for another rate cut 10/16/2024 03:36am • LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has fallen to its lowest level for more than three years, official figures showed Wednesday, a drop that has cemented market expectations that the Bank of England will lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in November. The Office for National Statistic US retail trade group expects holiday season sales to grow more slowly 10/15/2024 05:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The largest retail trade group in the United States said Tuesday that it expects consumers to spend more during the upcoming holiday shopping season but the growth in sales to be slower than last year due to concerns over persistent inflation and prices. The National Retail Federa New study finds connection between COVID and Type 2 diabetes in young people 10/15/2024 05:00am • A connection has been uncovered between COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers, according to researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. The study, published in the JAMA Network Open medical journal, relied on electronic health records of mo