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What Can Student Loans Be Used For? 09/21/2025 08:00pm • When you take out a student loan, your lender sends funds directly to your school. After your school deducts what's needed to pay for expenses such as tuition and room and board, it will disburse any remaining money to you for education-related expenses. But these expenses aren't just books and clas New partnership offering transit travel training to domestic abuse survivors in Loudoun 09/21/2025 12:22pm • A public-private partnership is offering transit travel training and a free $50 SmarTrip card to domestic abuse survivors in Loudoun County. The initiative is a collaboration between the Dulles Area Transportation Association (DATA) and Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter (LAWS). Funding comes f Car prices are in check. But get ready for sticker shock on repair bills 09/21/2025 08:13am • (CNN) — Despite billions in tariff costs for imported autos and parts, new car prices have stayed relatively flat. But the news isn’t as good for car owners taking their vehicles to the repair shop. The price of car repairs jumped 5% just from July to August, according to the latest Consumer Today in History: September 21, Nairobi shopping mall attack 09/21/2025 04:10am • Today is Sunday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2025. There are 101 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 21, 2013, an attack by armed militants in the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya left 67 people dead and hundreds injured. Also on this date: In 1792, the National Conv Bill Parcells enters Patriots Hall of Fame, ending his long-running feud with owner Robert Kraft 09/20/2025 07:44pm • FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Former Patriots coach Bill Parcells was inducted into the franchise Hall of Fame on Saturday, resolving a long-running feud with owner Robert Kraft that boiled over at their only New England Super Bowl appearance together and festered for three decades. A two-time Super Bo FanDuel Promo Code: Get $300 Bonus for College Football, NFL Week 3 Games 09/20/2025 02:25pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Activate the latest FanDuel promo code offer to win $300 in bonus bets for college football and the NFL. Sign up here to activate this On the front line of Congo’s conflict, a trauma center tells a story of horror and survival 09/20/2025 05:06am • GOMA, Congo (AP) — In a sunlit rehabilitation room, Jerome Jean Claude Amani offers a faint smile. For the first time since losing his wife and children to a rebel attack in eastern Congo, the 35-year-old is standing again — one leg his own, the other made of plastic. “I feel at peace,” said Searching and applying for after-school programs in DC is now at your fingertips 09/19/2025 06:52pm • Looking for after-school or weekend programs for your children in D.C.? A new website from the District aims to help you out. "We've been constantly hearing families say that they don't know where or how to access out of school time, meaning after school and summer programs for D.C.'s children an Teen charged in shooting of San Francisco 49ers' Pearsall will not be tried as an adult 09/19/2025 05:50pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The teen charged with shooting San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall during an attempted robbery last year will be tried as a juvenile, a judge ruled Friday. The suspect was a 17-year-old high school senior at the time of the August 2024 shooting. He is now 18 and 'We can go everywhere without going anywhere': One Maryland production studio offers Hollywood magic 09/19/2025 07:48am • While you may think you have to go to Hollywood, New York or even Atlanta to get movie studio production quality, creatives and businesses can now get the same experience in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The production facility, ideaPlexMD, is on a quiet street in the suburban area of B A woman's remains were found in Oregon in 1976. They've been identified 49 years later thanks to DNA 09/19/2025 12:08am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Valerie Nagle spent decades wondering what happened to her older sister who was last seen in Oregon in 1974. She searched online databases of unidentified persons cases looking for her and sent DNA to a popular ancestry website in the hopes of finding a match. That all chang FTC sues Ticketmaster, saying it forces fans to pay more for concerts and events 09/18/2025 03:06pm • The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, saying they are forcing consumers to pay more to see live events through a variety of illegal tactics. The FTC said Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster, have dec Amazon spends $1 billion to increase pay and lower health care costs for US workers 09/18/2025 03:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it's investing more than a $1 billion to raise wages and lower the cost of health care plans for its U.S. fulfillment and transportation workers. The Seattle-based company said Wednesday the average pay is increasing to more than $23 per hour. Some of its most tenured e American Express Platinum Card gets pricier and adds new perks, including a $400 dining credit 09/18/2025 09:58am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Platinum Card is getting shinier and pricier. American Express' latest update to its high-end Platinum Card, unveiled Thursday, comes with a lot more perks, including a $400 credit for dining out, and a lofty annual fee of $895. The Platinum Card refresh is just the latest from UK, Lithuania and Latvia detain people over allegations of arson and spying for Russia 09/18/2025 08:49am • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained several people on suspicion of carrying out intelligence-related activities on behalf of Russia in the latest of a string of incidents to be linked to Moscow by Western officials. London's Metropolitan Police forc