Friday, July 31, 2026
Luke Helton said he may have to dig into his retirement savings to afford higher student-loan payments after taking out $80,000 in student loans for undergrad at the University of Tennessee. A class-action lawsuit to erase federal student loans for 450,000 borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges has been tangled up in courts for years.
Donald Trump and FCC chair Brendan Carr have been targeting ABC's broadcast licenses, and ABC challenged the move in a new filing citing Trump's own social media postings and remarks at speeches as evidence of retaliatory intent. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before Sen. Rand Paul's committee, refusing to answer a single question in his first such refusal in four decades of congressional appearances.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was set to arrive in Ceuta amid an escalating crisis for his pro-immigration government. In the U.S., green card applicants face a shifting landscape as family categories advance, employment backlogs grow, and new rules loom. Trump's tariff war with Canada drags on, leaving a Michigan border community suffering without a voice.