COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As student aid for the new academic school year has just become available for students, the Biden Administration has now changed the qualifications needed to utilize the student loan forgiveness program. According to the student aid website, as of September 29th, people who have Federal Family Education Loans or Perkins Loans not held by the department of education,
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer It’s been almost three decades since the NHL took the names off the back of officials’ jerseys and replaced them with numbers. And with the notable exception of Wes McCauley and a few others, most referees and linesmen work under the radar by design. But their lives away from
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Local election officials across the United States are bracing for a wave of confrontations on Election Day in November. Emboldened Republican poll watchers, including many who embrace former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election, are expected to flood election offices and
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Defense Ministry says its warplanes “neutralized” 23 Kurdish militants in a raid 140 kilometers (90 miles) inside Iraq. The ministry usually refers to killed militants as “neutralized.” It said Sunday that the number of casualties in the mission in the Asos region of northern Iraq was expected to rise. A
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police have used rubber bullets to disperse protesters in front of the Iranian Embassy in Bern after two men climbed over the embassy’s fence and pulled down the Iranian flag from a flag pole in the yard. Police said late Saturday that nobody was injured and that the “large crowd” of
Continue Reading HELSINKI (AP) — Authorities in Denmark say the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipelines have stopped leaking. The announcement Sunday came a day after officials said that the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipelines also appeared to stop leaking. The Nord Stream AG company informed the Danish Energy Agency that a stable pressure now appears to
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By Mia Alberti and Kara Fox, CNN British Prime Minister Liz Truss admitted mistakes had been made with her government’s controversial “mini-budget” announced last week — which sent the pound to historic lows and sparked market chaos — but stood by her policies. Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday morning Truss said: “I
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Debutant Amos Kipruto has won the men’s race at the London Marathon. The 30-year-old Kenyan finished in a time of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 39 seconds to beat Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase in second place. Bashir Abdi of Belgium was third. Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia recovered from a fall to win the women’s
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By Aimee Lewis, CNN The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has called on Football Australia to issue lifetime bans to fans found to have displayed Nazi symbols and salutes during Saturday night’s Australia Cup final. On Sunday, Football Australia said it will go through all the video footage and images at its disposal
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By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen and Jake Kwon, CNN Fans attempting to escape the chaos that erupted at Indonesia’s Kanjuruhan Stadium last Saturday became trapped after security failed to open multiple exit gates, according to the national football association, contributing to the crowd crush in which at least 131 people died. Security forces are facing
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By Camilo Rocha, Kara Fox, Rodrigo Pedroso, and Caitlin Hu, CNN Brazil’s polarizing presidential race will go to a second round run-off after no candidate achieved a majority of more than 50% of the ballot in an election that saw long lines at polling booths as millions turned out to vote. With more than 99%
Continue Reading By AGOES BASOEKI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Panic and a chaotic run for exits after police fired tear gas at an Indonesian soccer match to drive away rampaging fans left at least 174 dead, most of whom were trampled upon or suffocated, making it one of the deadliest sports events
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By Michael Manduley, CNN Baseball great Alex Rodriguez is opening up about mistakes in his personal and professional life, and how they are shaping his growing business empire. In an interview on CNN and HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”, Rodriguez said the performance-enhancing drug scandal that marred his legacy was “the most embarrassing
Continue Reading By Michael Manduley, CNN Baseball great Alex Rodriguez is opening up about mistakes in his personal and professional life, and how they are shaping his growing business empire. In an interview on CNN and HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”, Rodriguez said the performance-enhancing drug scandal that marred his legacy was “the most embarrassing
Continue Reading By AGOES BASOEKI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Panic and a chaotic run for exits after police fired tear gas at an Indonesian soccer match to drive away rampaging fans left at least 174 dead, most of whom were trampled upon or suffocated, making it one of the deadliest sports events
Continue Reading By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians on Sunday cast their ballots in a general election marked by a raging war nearby, political instability, and economic hardships in the European Union’s poorest member. It’s the fourth such election in 18 months. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. local. First exit poll results
Continue Reading LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children. Police say the wagon was carrying around 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby local Hindu temple Saturday night. Most of the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia has recovered from a fall to win the women’s race at the London Marathon on Sunday. The 23-year-old appeared to trip on a speed bump with six miles remaining but recovered to rejoin the leading pack and came home in 2 hours, 17 minutes, and 25 seconds, the
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, imploring him to “stop this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine and denounced the “absurd” risk to humanity of catastrophic nuclear war as tensions escalate. Francis uttered his strongest plea yet on the seventh-month war
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end. Then they beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied
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