Your phone may have given you a scare today, but it was only a test. Like a bad sequel, student loan payments are back – although some borrowers had theirs wiped. And who is the fattest bear of them all? It's Fat Bear Week. |
👋 Hello! Laura Davis here. We're halfway through the week, and we've got a whole bunch of news! |
Is everybody OK out there? Aside from just about jumping out of my skin when it went off, that National Wireless Emergency Alert test that just screamed out of everybody's cellphone seems like it was a success. |
| • | In case you missed it: Millions of cellphones, TVs and radios in the U.S. blared distinctive emergency alert tones for about a minute at 2:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday, followed by the message: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed." | |
The Federal Emergency Management Agency uses these alerts to warn people about emergencies, natural catastrophes, attacks and accidents at the national level. But the test is – naturally – whipping up some conspiracy theories online. Marburg virus turning vaccinated people into zombies? Yeah, not so far. Fingers crossed! 😉 | A screenshot of the text received during the National Wireless Emergency Alert System test. Louie Villalobos |
Student debt forgiveness arrives for some – payments for others |
As student loan payments return for millions of people after a more than three-year hiatus, 125,000 borrowers will have $9 billion in debt erased, the Biden administration said Wednesday. Those borrowers were already eligible for cancellation through various programs: Public Service Loan Forgiveness for people working as teachers and health care workers, for instance; repayment plans that forgive balances after 20 or 25 years of payments; or discharges for those with disabilities. Some of these borrowers have just now, coincidentally, met all the criteria to have their loans forgiven. But others, because of bureaucratic mix-ups or other obstacles, never got the relief they were entitled to until now. 📚 Here's what we know. |
What everyone's talking about |
Kaiser workers launch 3-day strike in several states |
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers and support staff walked off the job Wednesday in several states and Washington, D.C., picketing outside dozens of facilities in a three-day action union officials said would be the largest health care employee strike in American history. Kaiser is one of the nation's largest insurers and health providers, with 39 hospitals nationwide. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions said the walkout is to protest "unfair labor practices and unsafe staffing levels" at hundreds of Kaiser hospitals and facilities. 👉 Here's what the strike means for patients. | People hold placards, as health care workers at Kaiser Permanente start a three day strike, in San Diego on Wednesday. MIKE BLAKE, REUTERS |
Who packing on the most pounds? It's a fat bear face-off 🐻🏆 |
Hide your groceries! It's Fat Bear Week. Katmai National Park and Preserve's annual contest kicked off Wednesday to decide which bear takes the cake (or picnic basket) for flaunting their winter weather gains. Fat Bear Week is a March Madness-style bracket competition that pits some of Katmai's bulkiest and most beloved bears against each other in the arena of public opinion. But hey! No fat-shaming, please. With winter just around the corner, it's important for bears to gain extra weight because they won't be eating for a while during hibernation. Meet the chunky contenders here. | Katmai National Park's brown bears are bulking up for winter, and you can vote for your favorite. National Park Service, F. Jimenez | | | | Four low-level staffers' accounts to the school's outside investigator could help establish if Mel Tucker engaged in "quid pro quo" sexual harassment. | | | | House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made history Tuesday after he was ousted from his position. Here's a look at what happened and where things stand. | | | | The "Million Dollar Search for Extraterrestrials" contest encourages users to film an extraterrestrial sighting with their Ring device. Here are the details. | | | | Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce call out NFL over Taylor Swift coverage during the Kansas City Chiefs-New York Jets Sunday Night football game. | | | | Lawyers for the father say that what Timothy Ferriter did was poor parenting but not a criminal act. Prosecutors think otherwise, calling it abuse. | | | | Actor Brian Austin Green is opening up about the "stroke-like symptoms" that left him speechless and bedridden for months. | | | | Duane "Keffe D" Davis was scheduled to be arraigned, but the hearing was cut short after he asked the judge to postpone. | | | | The president said aiding Ukraine is ''overwhelmingly'' in the US interest and he's planning a speech on the topic. Latest news. | | | | Breanne "Bre" McKean, a senior at Mapleton High School in Ohio, was a member of the girls volleyball and basketball teams. | | | | | | | Sign up for the news you want | Exclusive newsletters are part of your subscription, don't miss out! We're always working to add benefits for subscribers like you. | | | | | | |
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