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For the first time in more than three years, federal student loan borrowers will be required to pay their monthly student loan bills starting in October. The pandemic-related pause, which went into effect in March 2020, provided relief to nearly 44 million borrowers by freezing their accounts.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused deep disruptions in the global food supply, raising prices and increasing the risk of food insecurity in poorer nations in the Middle East and North Africa, America's top spy agency said in an unclassified report released by Congress on Wednesday.

Even though President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program was blocked by the Supreme Court earlier this year, his administration is moving forward with more targeted student debt cancellations allowed under existing programs.

Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in one year, lawyers for the New York attorney general's office alleged as part of their civil fraud lawsuit against the former president, his adult sons and the Trump Organization.

Some 3.6 million salaried workers would newly qualify for overtime pay under a proposed rule unveiled by the US Department of Labor on Wednesday. It would guarantee overtime pay of at least time-and-a-half for most salaried workers earning less than $1,059 a week, or about $55,000 a year.

The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday the names of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations in Medicare, including several popular blood thinners and diabetes medications.

The Biden administration made its most detailed argument to date on the benefits of organized labor with a potential autoworkers' strike looming as negotiations between the United Auto Workers and auto companies continue and the president works to convince Americans to support his "Bidenomics" vision.

President Joe Biden will travel to Hanoi, Vietnam, on September 10 following the Group of 20 summit in India to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other leaders, according to the White House.

Eight candidates for the Republican nomination for president took the stage for the first GOP debate Wednesday night in Milwaukee. Below is a fact check of some of their statements.

Medical debt is a big burden for the middle class. Almost a quarter of middle-class Americans, or 17 million people, had unpaid health care bills in 2020, a larger share than those higher and lower on the income scale, according to a new report from Third Way.

President Joe Biden made three false claims about his own past in a Tuesday speech in Milwaukee.

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown created a political action committee to "help elect Republicans" but most of its funds were spent paying down debt from his failed previous campaign. The group donated less than 7% of its funds to the candidates it was set up to support, according to campaign finance records -- a move one campaign finance expert likened to using the PAC as a "slush fund."