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One of the country’s largest teachers unions is accusing the Trump administration of mismanaging a popular student loan forgiveness program for public servants.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on Friday sued Education Secretary Linda McMahon over a raft of problems in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which cancels the education debt of government and nonprofit employees after 10 years of service and 120 monthly loan payments.
A chief complaint is the Education Department’s handling of a provision of the program, known as PSLF Buyback, that lets public servants make retroactive payments for months in which their loans were postponed through forbearance. Applications for the buyback initiative have piled up at the department, which is working through a backlog of nearly 90,000 claims, according to the lawsuit.
“Secretary McMahon has flagrantly ignored her responsibility to help teachers, nurses and first responders under the buyback provision her department pledged to implement,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten, who is being represented by attorneys at the nonprofit Protect Borrowers and the law firm Berger Montague.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also details borrowers failing to get credit for qualifying payments and watching their payment count mysteriously drop without explanation from the Education Department.
Department spokesperson Ellen Keast said the buyback is an arduous process that requires manual review of borrower records, and the agency is working with loan servicers to streamline the process.
“Rather than acknowledge these realities, the union has yet again chosen litigation and election-year theatrics,” she said.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered Friday to celebrate the Milwaukee Brewers’ first World Series title in the team’s 57-year history. The parade in downtown Milwaukee featured fans cheering wildly for the players, a marching band, the team’s racing sausages — and one reminder of Tuesday’s pivotal election for governor.
A plane flying above trailed this message: “David Crowley helped keep the Brewers in MKE!”
Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who is in a tight race for governor with Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin), rode in the parade in a black sports car with his wife, Ericka. Some Brewers fans briefly chanted his name as he passed.
Outgoing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and longtime state GOP Assembly speaker Robin Vos were also in the parade. Tiffany did not attend.
The Brewers’ title could give Crowley a boost so close to the election because of his role in brokering a bipartisan deal to keep the team in Milwaukee, according to some experts.
The bipartisan deal, finalized in 2023, comes with a mix of funding — $387 million from the state, $135 million split between Milwaukee County and the city of Milwaukee, and $110 million from the team, which agreed to a new lease that will keep them in Milwaukee for about 50 years.
An Oregon school employee who threw her cellphone at a school shooter earlier this month, then tackled him, in an effort to stop the shooting said in a statement Friday that she will carry the loss of that day with her forever.
In her first public comments since the Oct. 15 attack inside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Cassidy Schutz said she has “no words to describe the depth of sadness” she has felt since the teenage shooter killed three children and one teacher.
The gunman was fatally shot by a father from the school as Schutz struggled with him inside the classroom.
“It all happened so fast, and I wish with everything in me that we had more time,” said Schutz, a certified learning specialist at the school. “This is a horrific and heartbreaking tragedy, and it is our real lives.”
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz has said Schutz “almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed.”
The 28-year-old asked for privacy as she navigates life since the tragedy. “My thoughts are with those who were lost, their families, those who were hurt, and those who were there that day,” she wrote.
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) reiterated her criticism of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a lengthy statement on Friday that rehashes the Democratic rivals’ fierce divisions on Israel ahead of Election Day.
Stevens, who narrowly lost the primary to El-Sayed in August, appeared to downplay the significance of her agreeing to appear at a Black church with El-Sayed and Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-South Carolina) in Detroit on Sunday. She said Clyburn asked her to attend, and she was “honored” to go to church with him.
She said she only agreed to appear alongside El-Sayed because she believes he plans to condemn an outside group’s ad that is critical of Israel. El-Sayed previously distanced himself from the ad, which was created by Rebellion PAC, not his campaign, and features grocery shoppers complaining that prices are high due to U.S. support for Israel.
Stevens wrote that “emissaries” within the Democratic party have informed her that El-Sayed has “heard the deep concerns of the Jewish community and is now, for the first time in this campaign, formally condemning that ad for what it is.” Stevens urged the media to press El-Sayed for a condemnation, and also said she expects El-Sayed to apologize for his own rhetoric that she said has linked U.S. military support for Israel to higher prices in the United States.
“A disclaimer is not a condemnation, and everyone in my community knows the difference,” Stevens wrote.
Stevens also said she expects El-Sayed to take down an ad in which he quotes right wing pundit Tucker Carlson criticizing Republican candidate Mike Rogers.
The joint appearance was announced after Stevens’s fiancé said he would vote for Rogers in the Senate race earlier this week, criticizing El-Sayed’s stance on Israel as posing dangers for American Jews.
An El-Sayed spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Most Americans will set their clocks back one hour on Sunday to standard time, ending daylight saving time and giving you more early-morning sunlight — which is important for your body’s internal clock.
Even so, sleep experts say the time shift can disrupt your sleep cycle.
Although the fall time change tends to be less disruptive than the spring, it can take a while for your body to adjust, meaning you may wake up earlier than intended, feel less alert during the day and more tired in the evening.
To help combat that, try to get 15-20 minutes of early-morning sunlight every day.
“Morning light is the most important factor when it comes to regulation of our biological clock and our circadian rhythm,” said Taruj Ali, medical director of sleep medicine at Mary Washington Healthcare.
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As the midterm campaign cycle wraps up, polls released this week came with a caution for Democrats against celebrating before Election Day.
Details on the surveys’ methodology, sample sizes and margins of error can be found in the links below.
Canary in the poll mine
In reliably red South Carolina, Sen. Darline Graham (R) is roughly tied with Annie Andrews (D), while Michelle Tafoya (R) is 14 percentage points behind Peggy Flanagan (D) in the competitive Minnesota Senate race, according to a New York Times/Siena poll of likely voters.
Nate Cohn, chief political analyst for the New York Times, warned that polls may be underestimating Republican strength because callers are struggling to reach White, working-class voters. (We ran into similar problems polling the Senate race in Kansas.)
“We may look back and say this was the canary in the coal mine,” Cohn wrote.
Trump’s 2024 coalition falling apart
The multiracial, working-class coalition that helped propel President Donald Trump to victory in 2024 shows signs of breaking, according to a CNN/SRSS poll of likely voters in four key Senate races.
In Texas, Senate candidate James Talarico (D) has the support of 63 percent of Latino likely voters in the state and 64 percent among likely voters of color generally. This includes 22 percent of voters of color who say they voted for Trump in 2024.
Amazon said Thursday that groceries and household essentials accounted for about half of unit sales in the third quarter of this year, marking another striking run of growth in that part of the business for the e-commerce retailer.
The company also said that monthly grocery orders from Amazon Prime members more than tripled over the past year.
Amazon previously said it is the second-largest grocer in the United States. The details of its growing business in perishable foods, announced during a third-quarter earnings call Thursday, comes after DoorDash announced it agree to buy competitor Instacart.
Executives on the call said that customers who used Amazon for perishable groceries were also far more likely to order its Everyday Essentials — household staples such as paper towels, dish detergent and snacks.
Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
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