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The EPA issued a final rule requiring water systems to replace all lead pipes within 10 years. Water advocates lauded the rule as a public health victory, but say there's much work to be done.

Millions of student-loan borrowers have faced legal whiplash over the past 24 hours.A Missouri judge blocked Biden from carrying out his broader debt relief plan just hours after receiving the case.The ruling came before the Education Department had even published the final rule for the debt relief. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics…

A federal court in Missouri placed a preliminary injunction on Biden's broader student-debt relief plan.This ruling officially blocks the relief from being implemented pending a final legal decision from the court.The decision came on the same day the temporary restraining order on the relief was set to expire. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite…

The Biden administration has proposed rules that could make it more costly for Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu to ship goods into the US. In his announcement proposing to crack down on "unsafe, unfairly traded products," President Joe Biden accused China-founded e-commerce platforms selling cheap goods of abusing the "de minimis exemption" that…

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drew a new red line as the possibility of the US supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles may become a reality. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.

Former president Donald Trump mistakenly called Elon Musk by the wrong name at a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday.The former president referred to Musk as "Leon" while praising the SpaceX CEO over his plan to bring two stranded astronauts back from the International Space Station."Boeing had a little hard time, so they are going to…

The legal setbacks keep coming for millions of federal student-loan borrowers.On Thursday, Georgia's southern district court placed a temporary restraining order on President Joe Biden's second try at broader student-loan forgiveness using the Higher Education Act of 1965.This order comes just two days after a group of seven GOP state attorneys general filed a lawsuit…

On Tuesday, seven GOP state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Georgia to block Biden's second try at debt relief using the Higher Education Act of 1965.The lawsuit is targeting the plan the Education Department announced last summer after the Supreme Court struck down Biden's first attempt at broad debt relief.…

After federal student-loan payments resumed in October 2023 after an over three-year pause, President Joe Biden's Education Department implemented a 12-month on-ramp period, during which the department would not report any missed payments to credit agencies.That meant that while interest was still accruing on borrowers' balances if they missed payments, they would not take any…

Steven Perry, 58, was never anticipating student-loan forgiveness — even after making payments for more than two decades.After graduating with a liberal-arts degree in the early '90s, Perry went on to graduate school to get a teaching certificate, and he's worked as a teacher and administrator for the past 30 years.While Perry took out student…