How Many Americans Want Student Loan Forgiveness?

How Many Americans Want Student Loan Forgiveness?

It’s college graduation season, so in this episode of The United Stats of America, host Galen Druke interviews incoming New York University graduates about some of the issues facing college students today. How comfortable do students feel voicing their opinions on campus? And how many young people think the government should cancel student loan debt … Read more

The Student Debt Crisis? It’s Infinitely Worse for Black Women.

The Student Debt Crisis? It’s Infinitely Worse for Black Women.

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It’s Time for Young People to Demand a Solution to the Student Debt Crisis

It’s Time for Young People to Demand a Solution to the Student Debt Crisis

Student debt borrowers demand that President Biden cancel student loan debt during a demonstration outside the White House. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more Student Nation, check out our archive or … Read more

Brit student, 26, dies after plane crashes on farmland during flight training

Brit student, 26, dies after plane crashes on farmland during flight training

The 26-year-old is believed to have died instantly, after the light aircraft came down in a field by a main road near the town of Pinzon, 25 miles south of Seville Horrific moment Brit man’s plane crashes near Seville A young British man died after his plane crashed on farmland in southern Spain. The 26-year-old … Read more

Purdue probes white cop’s actions during arrest of black student

Purdue probes white cop’s actions during arrest of black student

Purdue University police are reviewing a white cop’s actions after video emerged of him repeatedly punching a black student and pushing his head in the snow during an arrest. Adonis Tuggle, 24, posted the footage captured Feb. 4 by a woman claiming to be his girlfriend, the Journal and Courier reported† “Stop! You’re hurting me! … Read more

Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va.

Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly. When students arrived at the event in the school’s auditorium, they were instructed to close their eyes and raise … Read more

Chicago student rescued from Lake Michigan after walking on ice

Chicago student rescued from Lake Michigan after walking on ice

a Chicago student was reportedly rescued Friday after walking off the shore of frozen Lake Michigan. “The person on the ice near 5500 S LSD apparently didn’t realize he was walking on ice,” wrote Chicago Fire Media. “This rescue went smoothly but the outcome could have easily been a tragedy.” “Avoid the ice at all … Read more

A Black student says the Greenfield High School athletic director repeatedly called him ‘boy’; his parent wants him fired

A Black student says the Greenfield High School athletic director repeatedly called him ‘boy’; his parent wants him fired

Members of the Greenfield High School boys basketball team wear shirts saying “My Name is Not Boy” in support of Omar Surveyor (first row, third from left), who said the school’s athletic director, Trent Lower, called him a racial slur. A Greenfield High School parent is asking that the school’s athletic director be fired after … Read more

Axios Austin readers weigh in on student loan debt

Axios Austin readers weigh in on student loan debt

Readers shared wide-ranging thoughts how on student loan debt and the ongoing repayment pause impact them. Driving the news: Americans were originally scheduled to begin repaying their student loans this week after a nearly two-year pause and 0% interest rates. Yes, but: President Biden announced in December that payments wouldn’t resume until May 1, extending … Read more

Apple Pays $100,000 To Student Who Found Mac Camera Faulty

Apple Pays $100,000 To Student Who Found Mac Camera Faulty

apple: An American researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received one of the biggest rewards ever paid by apple to volunteers who find and prove serious bugs in the company’s systems. Ryan Pickren is a PhD student in cybersecurity and managed to hack into a Mac’s webcam, gaining not only access to the … Read more