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Average post-college debt is now $25,000, a number that could set stage for new economic crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job.


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Financial company will review Saxon cases, pay back homeowners who were improperly forced out

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve says Morgan Stanley will review foreclosures carried out by its old mortgage subsidiary and reimburse any homeowners who were improperly forced out of their homes.


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Findings help explain why women of color are so much more likely to develop the cancer

CHICAGO (AP) -- Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.


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Clayton Osborn makes first court appearance since last week's bizarre in-flight outburst

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- A JetBlue Airways captain charged with disrupting a Las Vegas-bound flight after he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists should remain in federal custody without bond, prosecutors told a judge Monday.


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Governor and other supporters now must win over skeptical lawmakers

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Backers of California's ambitious high-speed rail project will begin their hard sell with lawmakers and the public on Monday with the release of their final business plan, which details the costs, financing and construction.


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The winners will earn $213 million before taxes. Three other ticket holders became millionaires

RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The Mega Millions winners - at least three of them - stayed out of sight. The losers, who could number 100 million, had plenty to say Saturday about losing out on the world's largest-ever lottery jackpot and their dashed dreams of colossal wealth.


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150 officers were deployed on the streets at one point to quell \"a very dangerous situation with the fires and the violence" that dragged on for hours

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray in small amounts for crowd control as thousands of rowdy fans swarmed into the streets near the University of Kentucky campus, overturning cars and lighting couches ablaze after a victory over cross-state rival Louisville in a Final Four matchup.


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One mandate affects just about everybody: Workers must pay a tax to finance Medicare, which collects about $200 billion a year

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care.


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Scientist panel says that in coastal areas of the US, property damage from hurricanes and rising seas could increase by 20 percent by 2030

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.


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Ohio, Texas and New York reported the biggest job gains

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment rates fell last month in most U.S. states, including in some hit hardest during the recession.


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