Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's headlines: The Biden administration has launched its online application for student loan borrowers to claim loan relief this week, while Covid officials scramble to plan for the Omicron subvariant threat. The nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy has found that US pharmaceutical companies have been responsible for significant EPA violations in Puerto Rico. Kanye West has offered to buy the right-wing social media network Parler, while the DOJ is recommending that Steve Bannon be sentenced to 6 months in prison. Finally for today, the Trump Organization charged the secret service 5-6 times the market rate to stay at his properties while they were on his protection detail. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP News: Student loan forgiveness application website goes live Politico: Biden Covid officials scramble to plan for Omicron subvariant threat Mother Jones: Big Pharma Is Flooding Puerto Rico With Toxic Waste AP News: Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler NPR: DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon Washington Post: Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, October 18th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:06.4	by Betches Media.
0:07.4	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-pinning breakdown
0:11.6	of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:16.1	show there is.
0:17.4	Our government.
0:18.4	This episode is brought to you by Uncommon Goods.
0:21.1	If you're on a mission to be the best gift giver ever this holiday season, Uncommon Goods
0:25.3	makes it easy to find remarkable and truly original gifts for everyone.
0:34.0	For our first story today, soft launches aren't just for Instagram boyfriends.
0:38.8	This past weekend, the Biden administration launched its online application for student
0:42.8	loan borrowers to claim loan relief.
0:45.2	They announced that the soft launch website handled the early stream of applicants without
0:49.0	glitches, and that 8 million borrowers had already applied over the weekend.
0:53.6	If this is the first you're hearing about it, or even if it's not, and you borrowed
0:57.1	federal student loans, head to studentaid.gov to apply for loan relief.
1:02.0	As a reminder, individuals with incomes below $125,000 a year or households that make
1:06.9	less than $250,000 a year will have $10,000 in federal student debt forgiven, with recipients
1:13.5	of Pell grants eligible to have an additional $10,000 forgiven.
1:17.6	It's estimated that 20 million Americans will have their student debt erased entirely
1:21.3	as a result of this program.
1:23.4	So this is the one college-related assignment you do not want to procrastinate.
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