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It's been five months since a federal court ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to give defrauded student loan borrowers relief, but more than 100,000 people are still waiting to hear whether their debt will be canceled.The Obama-era rule, known as Borrower Defense to Repayment, allows students who believe they were defrauded by their college to apply for loan forgiveness. The idea is that if they didn't get the education they were promised, they shouldn't have to pay back their debt.The number of these applications soared as the Obama administration cracked down on for-profit colleges. Sometimes nursing students, for example, found out after finishing their program that it didn't have the right accreditation -- keeping them from getting a job.As of last fall, more than 200,000 people had applied for loan forgiveness, a majority of whom went to for-profit colleges. Nearly 48,000 received debt relief and 9,000 have been denied.But no applications were processed between June and September of last year, the most recent data available, as the administration fought implementing the rule. But they continued to pile up. The department received an additional 35,000 claims during that time period.An Education Department spokeswoman did not respond Monday to questions about how many claims had been processed since the October ruling ordering the administration to move ahead with loan forgiveness.In December, the department announced that it would begin canceling loans for borrowers eligible for a specific type of loan cancellation. There is an automatic loan discharge for those whose schools closed while they were enrolled.As of March 1, the department has forgiven more than 8 million in debt to about 16,000 borrowers that qualified for a closed-school discharge, according to data the National Student Legal Defense Network obtained from the Department of Education in connection with a lawsuit. The group sued the department in November for allegedly continuing to collect on these loans.In a lot of these cases, the government eats the cost. Only federally-backed loans are eligible for forgiveness. About half of the debt forgiven was owed by borrowers who attended one of the now defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges.But those borrowers who aren't eligible for the automatic discharge are still waiting to hear the verdict on their claim. They typically are required to show that the school misled them, by presenting them with inflated job placement rates, for example."We are not aware that any more claims have been processed," said Adam Pulver, an attorney at the advocacy group Public Citizen, which has brought a case against the department over the delay of the rule.Neither of his clients have received an update on their pending claim for loan forgiveness, he said.The department took a step toward fully implementing the Borrower Defense rule earlier this month when it issued guidance to schools about how the rule -- which also bans colleges from requiring students to sign mandatory arbitration agreements -- would be implemented.DeVos, who's been criticized for siding with for-profit colleges, pressed pause on processing the claims after a group representing for-profit colleges in California sued the agency seeking to block it from taking effect.Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and Washington, DC, sued the department over the delay in 2017, tying the rule up in court for more than a year. In September, the judge ruled in favor of the states, calling the department's delay "arbitrary and capricious," and ordered immediate implementation of the rule in October. DeVos has called the rule "bad policy" and has directed the department to rewrite it. The agency has proposed offering partial loan forgiveness for qualifying students, based on the income of their peers who attended similar programs at other colleges.Abby Shafroth, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, said she is worried a new rule could retroactively change the process for seeking relief."I have a number of clients who have been waiting since 2016 to hear about their application -- and still nothing from the department, no time line. It can feel like those applications were sent into a black hole," Shafroth said. 4275

INDIANAPOLIS — A private, Catholic high school in Indianapolis has fired a teacher in a same-sex marriage after Archbishop Charles Thompson of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis told the school they would forfeit their Christian identity if they didn't. After 22 months of discussion with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Cathedral High School said it made the decision to follow the direct guidance of Thompson and "separate from the teacher," the school said in a letter on their website. The school says if they did not fire the teacher, they would lose the "ability to celebrate the Sacraments as we have in the past 100 years with our students and community.""Please know that we offer our prayers and love to this teacher, our students and faculty, our Archbishop, and all associated with Cathedral as we continue to educate our students in the Catholic Holy Cross tradition," the school said in the letter. "We ask that dialogue about this difficult situation be respectful of the dignity of every person and that you continue to pray for our Cathedral family and the wider Indianapolis community."Last week, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School said the Archdiocese of Indianapolis would no longer recognize them because they would not fire a teacher also in a same-sex marriage.You can read the full letter from the high school 1344

Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They're almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years old (which means life could have had time to evolve), and they're orbiting their star at a distance that would support things like water flow and habitable temperatures.The two planets orbit Teegarden's star, an ancient star that is only 12-light-years away from the Earth. ("Only" is relative -- 12 light-years is equal to 70,540,000,000,000 miles.) Research on the planets and their sun, 621

Kern County Fire has confirmed that a wind turbine caught fire around 2 p.m. Wednesday in Mojave causing a grass fire. Fire officials told Scripps station KERO in Bakersfield the wind turbine is located on the west-side of Highway 14 and crew members are working to put the fire out. A vegetation fire was contained after the flames from the wind turbine fell onto the grass area, according to Kern County Fire. Officials said the grass fire has been contained. There was no immediate word on what caused the fire. 526

It could be a make-or-break week for the delicate trade negotiations between the United States and China as they drift further beyond the ambitious 90-day clock set last year by the leaders of the world's two largest economic superpowers.The Trump administration will welcome China's top trade negotiator in Washington on Wednesday in hopes of striking a comprehensive deal that would address long-standing concerns by the US government and top business executives.But the meeting comes as President Donald Trump is consumed with an escalating political crisis over his threat to close the US-Mexico border -- an echo of meetings earlier this year that were overshadowed by the partial government shutdown.As the tit-for-tat tariff war between the United States and China stretches beyond the one-year mark, top officials from both countries in recent weeks have begun to signal they are nearing the end of a trade standoff that once rattled Wall Street, though neither side has provided details about how talks progressed at last week's round of negotiations in Beijing."We're getting to the point where it's clear that both governments want a deal. The presidents want a deal, and they need to get through the end-game issues. This is a critical week," Myron Brilliant, executive vice president and head of international affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce told reporters on Tuesday.Some of the most difficult hurdles lie ahead as Chinese Vice Premiere Liu He arrives to continue talks with his counterparts Robert Lighthizer, the country's top trade envoy and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.At issue is whether the two sides can reach an agreement that could potentially lift billions of dollars of tariffs on Chinese goods in exchange for the United States having the power to take unilateral action to penalize Beijing if it fails to play by the rules of the deal."This end game issue -- this is what we're working through," said Brilliant. "This is why we don't have a final package at this point."Trump and other top administration officials in recent weeks have sent strong signals they plan on keeping in place tariffs on 0 billion of Chinese goods for a "substantial period of time.""We have to make sure that if we do the deal with China that China lives by the deal," Trump told reporters as he left Washington for Ohio ahead of Lighthizer and Mnuchin's trip to Beijing last week.At the time, Trump didn't spell out whether the US is planning to keep in place tariffs on all of the 0 billion of Chinese goods the US has imposed penalties or for how long.The White House could take a variety of approaches either by deciding to partially rollback tariffs or potentially reducing the level of tariffs currently imposed, a decision that will ultimately fall to the President who has favored a hefty tariff policy.Top officials have made clear they see the penalties as leverage over Beijing, but might be willing to ease some of them depending on the size of the deal.White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow has also hinted the United States would be willing to extend trade negotiations with China weeks or even months to strike the right deal."This is not time-dependent. This is policy- and enforcement-dependent," said Kudlow in a speech in Washington last week. "If it takes a few more weeks, or if it takes months, so be it. We have to get a great deal, as the president says, that works for the United States. That's our principle interest."Talks between the two sides have continued this month after the Trump administration officially shelved a plan to sharply increase tariffs on 0 billion of Chinese exports as the world's two largest economies inch closer to a deal. The administration hasn't offered a time frame on how long the US government would be willing to delay the tariff increase on China."You have a moment in time right now -- the focus of the two governments, the whole world is watching, the stakes are very high," said Brilliant. "Neither state wants to back away from these negotiations, so the momentum is still moving us forward to get to a final deal." 4120

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