The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration ...

Missed student loan payments continue to hurt Americans’ average credit score, but the pain is evenly distributed, according to the credit scoring company FICO. At the same time, a record 48.1% of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Treasury Department will take over the management of student loans whose borrowers are in default, according to a new agreement announced Thursday. The U.S. Education Department’s ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards our planet at more than 21,500 miles per hour, according to the the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kate Odell, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Ben Curtis/Allison Robbert/AP/Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire Each generation remembers ...

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent ...

Days are getting longer as a result of climate change, as warmer temperatures lead to a slowing of Earth’s rotation at a rate scientists say has not been seen for at least 3.6 million years. New ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Ray Charles’s take on Kermit the Frog’s classic and tracks from Lorde, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Joni Mitchell and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Even ...

The continued burning of fossil fuels is locking heat in Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land — instead of allowing it to reflect back into space, a new report finds. By Eric Niiler The Earth is out of ...

In February 2025, the U.S. Department of Education stopped assessing student loan servicers "on accuracy and call quality," the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found in a new report. That ...

You can't directly transfer a Parent PLUS loan to your student through the federal student loan system. The only way to shift a federal parent loan to your child is by refinancing with a private ...

A federal appeals court ordered the end to the SAVE student loan repayment plan, but the next steps for borrowers aren't clear yet. The Trump administration says it will inform borrowers when and how ...