The loan repayment push aims to stabilize the $1.6 trillion federal student debt portfolio and reduce taxpayer burden amid rising delinquency. Federal student loan collections—including wage garnishment—will resume within weeks, the Education Department confirmed on April 21, ending a five-year freeze and setting the stage for millions of defaulted borrowers to face renewed enforcement. The
CBS’s parent company needs FCC approval for proposed merger Brendan Carr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), CBS studio (Gary Minnaert via Wikimedia Commons) CBS Studios will settle a case brought by a script coordinator who accused the company of using illegal racial quotas to discriminate against straight white men. Lawyers for both sides informed the court of
The New York Police Department arrested a keffiyeh-clad Columbia University alumna who set up a tent outside a main campus gate on Monday afternoon. She was engaged in an anti-Israel protest alongside roughly two dozen masked agitators, including about 10 who chained themselves to the entryway. UPDATE: The NYPD has arrested an anti-Israel protester at
Ivy League university charges admin with violating law that governs federal grants and loans Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) and Alan Garber (Harvard) Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, arguing that the administration violated its constitutional rights when it froze more than $2 billion in Harvard grants and contracts. Without
INDIANAPOLIS—“It’s not food. It’s food-like substances.” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described the many manufactured food products offered that are high in calories but low in nutritional value. “So, strawberry flavoring in food, but there’s no nutrients. It’s sugar.” Kennedy said. “Your body is craving that, but it doesn’t get filled
The federal judiciary’s policymaking body also has warned that the court system is underfunded and vulnerable amid rising threats to judges. Two top House Judiciary Democrats have called on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to request more help from Congress to protect federal judges and court personnel, citing an alarming surge in threats
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff is moving to a new role at the Pentagon, a senior defense official told CBS News — the latest staffing shift after days of upheaval, after multiple top Hegseth aides were fired late last week. Chief of staff Joe Kasper will now work at the Department of Defense as