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The long legal battle to erase the debts of nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges is finally coming to an end, after a recent court ruling in a lawsuit that has spanned three presidential administrations.

The class-action suit, originally filed against the first Trump administration seven years ago, centered on a federal rule known as borrower defense. The rule is supposed to allow borrowers to petition the U.S. Education Department to erase their debts if a school has lied to them — about things like their job prospects, their credits' transferability or their likely salary after graduation.

During Trump's first term, thousands of borrowers who claimed they had been ripped off by predatory schools waited years to have their borrower defense claims reviewed. Finally, advocates sued, arguing that, under then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the department had deliberately and illegally stopped processing claims and wrongfully denied others without considering the merits of their cases.

The suit has endured long enough to bear the names of three different education secretaries: from Sweet v. DeVos in 2019 to Sweet v. Cardona during the Biden administration, and now Sweet v. McMahon for Trump's second term.

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Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream in the tub is still great, but the brand’s newest chocolate-covered ice-cream bar on a stick?

“It ain’t the same,” Ben Cohen, the company co-founder, told the Guardian. Sure, the chocolate coating is still thick enough, but the ice cream itself is “kinda fluffy”, Cohen said – an insult in the ice-cream world that suggests extra air was added to cut costs.

The criticism is surprising coming from Cohen, who opened his eponymous ice-cream shop in Burlington, Vermont, with childhood friend, Jerry Greenfield, in 1978. But it’s perhaps an apt metaphor of how he feels amid a simhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/31/ben-jerrys-ice-cream-magnum-boycottmering fight to take back Ben & Jerry’s from a parent company he says has silenced the brand’s trademark activism.

For Cohen, 75, the battle is legal and existential. Ben & Jerry’s social and economic value was protected for decades, he says, by an independent board with final say on the brand’s voice, values and ice-cream quality.

But that independence has all but disappeared, Cohen said. In November 2024, Ben & Jerry’s board sued parent company Unilever, claiming it was blocked from voicing support for Gaza, and accusing Unilever of breaching their agreement. The lawsuit is still making its way through federal court.

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A 28-year-old Australian hiker who lost contact with his family while hiking the Continental Divide Trail between Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in Wyoming has been found dead, according to authorities.

The man, identified as William Standish, was discovered by rescuers on Wednesday morning in the Wigwams, a series of rocky peaks on the west slope of the Teton mountain range, the Teton county coroner said. Investigators say it was likely he suffered a fatal fall.

Standish had been attempting a thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail between the Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks when he disappeared after contacting his family on 23 July, according to a statement from Teton county rescuers.

Evidence suggests Standish may have fallen from a steep ridgeline that separates Grand Teton and the Jedediah Smith wilderness, officials said.

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British Nepalese expedition leader Nirmal Purja, who was featured in the Netflix documentary “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible” (2021), is among 10 people initially reported missing following a deadly avalanche Thursday on Broad Peak mountain in Pakistan.

A rescue team confirmed Friday that the remains of American mountain climber Sarah Mallory Geis, as well as those of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy of Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung of Nepal, have been found and recovered, reported ABC News.

The Pakistani Army’s communications division told The New York Times early Friday morning that four bodies had been recovered. According to the BBC, the Alpine Club of Pakistan has since said that this initial figure was a “miscommunication” and that two bodies and a body part were found.

The army noted search and rescue operations are ongoing.

Broad Peak is part of the Karakoram mountain range between Pakistan and China and is considered an “eight-thousander” for its apex or more than 8,000 meters. Dozens of people have died trying to reach the reach the world’s 12th-highest summit since it was first scaled in 1957.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) moved Friday to drop its criminal prosecution of a former Olympian charged with destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the damage was instead the result of a “rushed and botched installation.”

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office blamed the contractor for overspraying and delamination.

In a new court filing, the office indicated it no longer stands behind its case against David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist who pleaded not guilty to felony destruction oMore...f property earlier this month.

“Specifically, the newly released documents reveal that work on installing the lining almost immediately fell behind, due to a combination of very rainy and windy weather, repeated failures of testing on the sealing of the expansion joints, and delays in obtaining sealing product at the worksite,” prosecutors wrote.

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Amazon said this week that it received hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds from President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to return some of the profits to its customers.

This follows a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that many of the Trump administration’s tariffs were illegal, prompting the U.S. government to start a process to refund billions of dollars in import taxes to affected companies.

Brian Olsavsky, the chief financial officer of Amazon.com, Inc., said during a Thursday earnings call that the company is “participating in the tariff refund process” and received an amount of $600 million in its second financial quarter.

Olsavsky noted that the company worked on the front end to avoid tariff costs and noted that Amazon is “not the importer of record for the large majority of items sold in our store.”

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You might have heard of "Ozempic face." But how about Ozempic temples?

In the era of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, plastic surgeons say they're seeing an increase in patients seeking a niche treatment in a high-risk area of the face. The issue? "Temporal hollowing," or "temporal wasting" − which, they say, involves loss of volume in the temples, due to rapid weight loss.

And how important, exactly, are fhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/07/31/ozempic-temporal-hollowing/91113282007/ull temples to a youthful complexion? Apparently, very.

"A patient will come in and go, 'Why do I look disturbed? Why do I look suddenly older? What is it about me?' " says Dr. Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California, who has appeared on reality shows like "Botched" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County." And one of the strongest characteristics of the 'Ozempic face' is the loss of volume in the temple."

Facial aesthetics is a subtle art. Small changes make big differences. And the best cosmetic procedures, plastic surgeons have told USA TODAY, involve nuance. They don't take a one-size-fits-all approach, and they balance features within each individual's unique complexion.

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Since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an executive order in January threatening tariffs on any country that ships fuel to Cuba, major media outlets have descended on the island to report on the resulting prolonged blackouts, collapsing hospitals, and piles of uncollected trash.

Far less attention has been paid to the rationale the administration offered for imposing the blockade in the first place.More...

The executive order states that Cuba represents a “national emergency” and poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States, stringing together a kitchen-sink list of familiar allegations, including accusations that Cuba sponsors terrorism and aligns itself with “dangerous adversaries” of the United States, such as Iran, Hamas, Russia, and China.

More specifically, the order claims that “Cuba hosts Russia’s largest overseas signals intelligence facility, which tries to steal sensitive national security information of the United States.”

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