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'We are in limbo': Student loan borrowers still face months of uncertainty about Biden's forgiveness program 03/05/2023 08:11am • More than 40 million federal student loan borrowers could be eligible for up to $20,000 in debt forgiveness, but they will likely have to wait several more months before the Supreme Court rules on whether President Joe Biden can implement his proposed relief program. The Supreme Court heard oral Year after the slap, Chris Rock punches back in new special 03/05/2023 08:10am • A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed live on Netflix, in which the comedian bragged that he ���took that hit like Pacquiao." The 58-year-old comedian on Saturday night performed his first stand Army boss' mission: Persuade schools to welcome recruiters 03/05/2023 07:35am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Army recruiters struggling to meet enlistment goals say one of their biggest hurdles is getting into high schools, where they can meet students one on one. But they received a recent boost from a recruiting advocate whom school leaders couldn't turn away: the secretary of the Army. 4 children die in fire in southwestern Serbia 03/05/2023 04:34am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A fire in a southwestern Serbian town has killed four children and injured their parents, police said on Sunday. The fire broke out around 7 a.m. in one of the apartments in a residential building in Novi Pazar, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Belgrade. Police Bankman-Fried might use flip phone under stricter bail plan 03/04/2023 07:17pm • Prosecutors and attorneys for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried are requesting the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur be allowed a flip-phone or another device that���s not a smartphone while on bail. The proposal, submitted in a letter Friday, comes as the judge in the case is deciding how to tou DC council may look to keep police in schools after increase in crime 03/04/2023 06:24pm • The D.C. council may reverse course on plans to remove police officers from public and charter schools as violence and crime increases. Councilmembers Trayon White, Vincent Gray, Brooke Pinto and Chairman Phil Mendelson sponsored the ���Safe Schools and Students Amendment Act of 2023.��� It would Military prospects see NFL hopes rise after policy change 03/04/2023 04:28pm • Kyle Patterson feels fortunate. The tight end from Air Force is living out a childhood dream as one of 319 invitees this week to the NFL���s annual scouting combine in Indianapolis. If all goes well between now and the end of summer, he, like dozens of other rookies, will be vying for roster spot Kilde's 6th World Cup downhill win earns discipline title 03/04/2023 03:43pm • ASPEN, Colo. (AP) ��� Aleksander Aamodt Kilde earned his second consecutive World Cup downhill title by winning Saturday's race by more than a half-second. The Norwegian collected his sixth victory in nine downhills this season, allowing him to join Stephan Eberharter as the only male ski racers in Judge: Oxford Schools, staff immune from shooting lawsuits 03/04/2023 01:31pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil lawsuits Washington Spirit signs 15-year-old Chloe Ricketts, becomes youngest player in NWSL history 03/04/2023 01:18pm • The Washington Spirit signed 15-year-old midfielder Chloe Ricketts, the club announced Friday afternoon, making her the youngest player to sign a National Women's Soccer League contract in league history. Ricketts, a high school sophomore from Dexter, Michigan, joined the Spirit for preseason tra Mistrial declared in Tucson for man charged in girl's death 03/04/2023 12:27pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ��� A mistrial was declared after a jury in southern Arizona was unable to reach a verdict on a murder charge against a man accused of killing a 6-year-old girl. The Arizona Daily Star reports a judge declared the mistrial Friday in the case against Christopher M. Clements, who wa Lawyers fight for man they say US wrongly deported to Haiti 03/04/2023 11:31am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Paul Pierrilus was deported two years ago from the U.S. to Haiti where he has been trying to survive in a chaotic and violent country where he wasn���t born and had never lived. Both his parents are Haitian but they emigrated to the French Caribbean territory of St. Ma Iowa man sentenced to 3 life terms for killing his family 03/03/2023 07:17pm • CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) ��� A judge on Friday sentenced an Iowa man convicted of killing his parents and sister to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Judge Lars Anderson sentenced Alexander Ken Jackson, 22, after his conviction in January of three counts of first-deg A decade under Maduro, migration marks Venezuelans��� lives 03/03/2023 05:42pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Few Venezuelans have not had their lives touched by migration over the last decade, when more than 7 million people left the country amid a political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has lasted the entirety of President Nicol��s Maduro���s government. In the 10 yea Louisiana Gov. travels to Asia to strengthen business ties 03/03/2023 04:55pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is traveling to Asia for a weeklong series of meetings with business leaders and policymakers in the hopes of growing foreign investment. Edwards, who left Friday and will return March 11, will visit South Korea and Japan. In a press release,