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The U.S. Department of Education announced it's erasing $1.2 billion in federal student loans. At the same time, the department is struggled to implement a new application for federal student aid.

Former President Donald Trump was in court in Florida where he's seeking dismissal of criminal charges related to classified documents he allegedly withheld and concealed from investigators.

Women who are subject to unwanted attention and harassment on the beaches of southern France are experimenting with an app that summons police. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 31, 2023.)

In Ukraine, news of the apparent death of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash is being greeted with satisfaction and gallows humor.

India and Russia have a decades-old, friendly relationship that has only grown closer since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But India is also close to the United States, which opposes the war.

If members of the UAW strike, it will affect more than automakers. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeff Rightmer, professor of Global Supply Chain at Wayne State University in Detroit.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, about construction concerns in Morocco's earthquake zone.

An update from the picket line in Wayne, Mich., as some 13,000 United Auto Workers strike at three factories after failing to reach a contract with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, about hate crimes rising in those cities.

A civil trial in New York could further upend the National Rifle Association. The state alleges misuse of funds at the powerful group.