CFPB’s blockbuster enforcement action drove Biden-Harris Administration to cancel $50 billion in student loans for one million borrowers.

The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.

Exclusive: Environment Agency warned about ‘forever chemicals' 20 years before it started to regulate them

Iago, surprised.

Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that sent him to prison, has died.

The UAW is calling up locals to stand by Stellantis workers in Belvidere, Ill., who were promised a reopening. Dawn Simms has been out of work for a year and a half. The Stellantis auto plant where she, her father and grandfather worked most of their adult years now sits idle, ringed with tall grass and weeds. Almost all of the members of her union, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1268, have been laid off, too, and the effects have rippled through the northern Illinois town of Belvidere, where restaurants have closed and business at others has slowed, as the need at food pantries has increased. It’s a familiar Rust Belt story, with a twist. Sitting in the union hall, a five minute drive from the shuttered plant, Simms does not talk like someone resigned to the loss of her livelihood or her home town’s vibrancy. ​“We’re here and we’re willing to work,” she says. ​“We want to work. Why can’t you keep your promise and bring your product?” She’s referring to a historic promise extracted by the UAW in its fall 2023 strike against Stellantis, Ford and General Motors. Stellantis contractually agreed to reopen the Belvidere plant, which had been idled earlier that year after 58 years in operation, and to pursue new manufacturing in the town. But now, the union says, the company is dragging its feet and attempting to renege on the reopening. UAW leaders are concerned that the real intent is to delay action beyond the May 1, 2028 expiration of the contract, so that the union has to renegotiate the reopening of the plant. In response, the UAW has launched a coordinated, national campaign to hold the company to its word. Under the leadership of President Shawn Fain, who came in as a reform challenger, the union is testing a thesis: that workers do not have to be subject to the whims of corporations, shuffled from here to there, separated from family or the towns they love when a CEO says it’s time to close down and relocate. By wielding their greatest weapon — the nationwide strike, or simply the threat thereof — workers can have a say in the manufacturing processes that shape their lives.

Legendary rock star Jon Bon Jovi was in the right place at the right time on Tuesday evening.

In the same release, Slimak pointed out that a separate Neanderthal population lived “about ten days’ walk” from Thorin’s group, yet the two populations showed no genetic evidence of mixing. That indicates Neanderthals were more insular than Homo sapiens, though at least some Neanderthal groups interbred with our species. Slimak expanded on these ideas in his 2023 book, The Naked Neanderthal.

Paleontologists have found the fossilized seeds of gymnosperm trees — relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgos — in stomachs of two specimens of Longipteryx chaoyangensis, one of the earliest known birds and one of the strangest. The discovery shows that these birds were eating fruits, despite a long-standing hypothesis that they feasted on fish, and more recent hypotheses it ate insects, with its incredibly strong teeth.

The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s latest expedition to the Nazca Ridge, an underwater Pacific mountain chain located approximately 1450km (900 miles) off the coast of Chile, has turned up at least 20 new species and an entirely new seamount. The Nazca Ridge and the adjoining Salas y Gómez Ridge are under consideration for designation as a High Seas marine protected area, part of the United Nations High Seas Treaty to ensure the conservation of vitally important habitats located in international waters.

The father of the 11-year-old boy killed last year when a minivan driver struck his school bus spoke at Tuesday’s Springfield City Commission meeting, again pleading with the community to stop using his son’s name as part of hateful statements toward Haitian immigrants. Nathan Clark, Aiden Clark’s father, stood next to his wife Danielle at a packed City Commission meeting, urging people to cease using his son to further their political views. “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” Clark told the city hall forum. “The last thing that we need is to have the worst day of our lives violently and constantly shoved in our faces, but even that’s not good enough for them. They take it one step further. They make it seem that our wonderful Aiden appreciates your hate, that we should follow their hate.” On Tuesday, Nathan Clark denounced multiple Republican politicians, including vice presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno for statements that Clark said “used his death for political gain.” “This needs to stop now. They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members,” Clark said. “However, they are not allowed nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio. I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.”

Canada’s Giller prize – formerly known as the Scotiabank Giller prize – will keep the bank as its main sponsor

A legal battle over who has the rights to Grand Moff Tarkin's visage is due to go to court

Kamala Harris showed up — and then some. The vice president’s performance against Donald Trump, in which she repeatedly baited him and knocked him off balance, was a far cry from President Joe Biden’s disastrous June debate. And it gave Democrats the role reversal they had hoped for after their switch at the top of the ticket.

The singing superstar — who called herself a “childless cat lady” in a reference to past remarks from GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) — issued a surprise endorsement of Harris immediately following the first presidential debate between the vice president and former President Trump.

The government is taking aim at big SUVs and trucks.

A WIRED investigation reveals that one of two lawyers known to have worked for or with Lawfair, a firm working on a case that could affect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, has ties to accounts with long histories of posting white supremacist content.

The AI supercomputer, which Elon Musk calls "Colossus," is powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips.

A month before Nippon Steel discovered its $15 billion takeover of U.S. Steel was on the brink of being torpedoed by President Joe Biden, the Japanese company received a strong hint that things were taking a turn for the worse.

The official account of the Republican House Judiciary Committee today posted an AI-generated photo of presidential candidate Donald Trump submerged chest-deep in water, shutting his eyes while embracing a duck and kitten. "Protect our kittens and ducks in Ohio!" the elected officials wrote above the image.