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New York (AP) – Trump administration Recent changes to student loans have caused frustration and confusion for some borrowers. In response to a February court ruling that blocked several Biden-era programs, Education Department Online and paper applications have been removed for income-driven repayment plans. “This especially hurts people who lose their jobs, including federal workers,” said Natalia Abrams, founder and president of the Student Debt Crisis Center. “A few months ago, they could have gotten to a zero dollar income-driven repayment plan.”The removal of application materials also caused confusion regarding the recertification process for borrowers who are already registered in…
The world rose faster than last year’s forecast, NASA said.Sea levels rose faster than expected worldwide in 2024, according to new research from the US NASA Space Agency. “With 2024 being the warmest record year, Earth’s expanding oceans have traced the lawsuit and reached the highest level in 30 years,” said NASA’s Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Head of Physical Oceanography, Integrated Earth System Observatory on Thursday. NASA sea level researcher Josh Willis said the global ocean growth last year was “higher than expected,” revealing that “the rate of rise is faster and faster” while changes occur every year. A NASA-led study…
Retiring Prime Minister Mute Egede says Greenland’s “disrespect” must stop as the US president says he wants the Arctic Island again.Greenland’s resignation Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for a stronger rejection by local politicians of US President Donald Trump’s promises, warning that it is “sufficient.” “This time, Trump’s rejection needs to be strengthened. After Trump repeated his desire to annexate his independent Danish territory on Thursday, Eged wrote on Facebook. “The US President has once again evoked the idea of annexing us. I will never be able to accept it,” he wrote. “Therefore, I asked the government to summon…
These are important developments on the 1,114th day of Russia’s Ukrainian War.This is the situation for Friday, March 14th: Fineting Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces had locked up Ukrainian soldiers still remaining in the country’s western Kursk region. There, after Kiev’s army made a bold invasion, they clinged to one of the important battles of the war for more than seven months. Putin told a news conference that Kursk’s situation was “fully under our control, and the groups that invaded our territory are isolated.” Ukrainian military leaders have denied that their troops are under siege, but said the…
Just as genomic sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Brian Johnson (an investor and founder behind Do not Die Movement) wants to begin a “Foodome” sequence. “We sequence US ‘Foodome’. This means testing 20% of foods that make up 80% of American diets based on what you eat every day,” Johnson said Thursday at the SXSW Festival in Austin. Johnson is the founder and former CEO of Kernel, the founder of Brain Monitoring Device Company, OS fund, and the founder and former CEO of e-commerce company Braintree. Today, he is obsessed with finding ways to broaden his life…
Protesters flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City. This was flooded with solidarity shows with student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the US. Thursday’s protests are the latest in a series of demonstrations after immigration authorities arrested Khalil on Saturday evening. President Donald Trump’s administration has said it intends to deport Halil, a Palestinian and married American citizen, over his role in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. However, Halil’s lawyers and supporters believe the Trump administration deliberately blends criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza with support for “terrorism.” The arrest has been thoroughly…
AI Company Sesame has released a basic model that promotes Maya, an impressive and realistic voice assistant. Models with a size of 1 billion parameters (“parameters” that refer to individual components of the model) are under the Apache 2.0 license. This means it can be used commercially with little restrictions. Called the CSM-1B, this model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text and audio inputs, as explained in SESAME on the AI Dev platform. RVQ refers to “residual vector quantization,” a technique for encoding audio into discrete tokens called code. RVQ is used in many recent AI audio technologies, such as…
NEW YORK (AP) – Columbia University says it has banished or stopped several Students who took over the campus building During the pro-Palestinian protest last spring, the diplomas of some students who graduated since graduating were temporarily revoked.In a campus-wide email sent Thursday, the university said the Judiciary Committee issued sanctions against dozens of students who occupied Hamilton Hall based on a “assessment of the severity of conduct.”The university did not provide a breakdown of how many students were expelled, suspended or revoked their degrees.The culmination of a months-long investigation process occurs as the university’s activist community is upset by…
The Israeli negotiating team reportedly extended their stay in Qatar’s capital, Doha. This was in town a day after the US envoy to Steve Witkov in the Middle East to town to find a way between Israel and Hamas. The card deal reportedly is an extension of a ceasefire of up to 60 days in exchange for five to 10 Israeli prisoners of war held in Gaza. Hamas has previously refused similar contracts, but they may feel more comfortable after in-person meetings with US hostage envoy Adam Bohler and Top Hamas officials in recent weeks. Bowler said the meeting was…
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), war in Sudan exposes more than 12 million people to “wide range” sexual violence used to “terrorize” the entire population. As the war approaches the two-year mark, UNICEF executive director Katherine Russell told a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday that there was an increasing risk of women and girls, as well as the risks of men and boys, an 80% increase from last year. Referring to data analyzed by UNICEF, Russell said there were 221 cases of rape reported in 2024 in nine states, with 16 cases reported, including children under…