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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to announce new steps today to tilt the student lending process more toward the borrowers. Obama's memorandum targets third parties that contract with the government to collect on federal student debt. Those companies will be required to better inform borrowers about repayment options and notify them when they are delinquent. The president is also instructing the government to create a website where students can see all their federal loans in one place.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Repercussions continue over a video of a racist chant by several members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity. University President David Boren says an investigation is underway to determine if some of the students could be expelled. The fraternity members have been told to clear out by midnight and the Greek letters have been removed from their frat house.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say Iraqi security forces continue to make slow progress in their battle to retake the militant-held city of Tikrit (tih-KREET') from Islamic State group extremists. Two senior military officials say a town next to Tikrit is now back in government hands. A provincial council chief says progress had been slow due to roadside bombs and sniper attacks.
LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has responded strongly to Muslim advocacy organization CAGE over allegations that heavy-handed attention from British spies helped turn Londoner Mohammed Emwazi (ehm-WAH'-zee) into the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John." Hammond says people who act as "apologists" for terrorists are partly to blame. Hammond also says terrorists bear the responsibility for their own acts.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president is reporting progress in attempts to solidify a cease-fire with Russian-backed rebels and separate the two sides with a buffer zone in the country's east. Petro Poroshenko tells a state broadcaster that both sides have pulled back the bulk of their artillery and rocket launchers from the front line. He says some heavy weaponry remains in place at the airport of the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
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